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Mills, Manuscripts and Monastic Archives: The Phillipps Charters of Mont Saint-Michel
in Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7227/BJRL.100.1.1
Online publication date:
03 Oct 2024
Issue date:
03 Oct 2024
Number:
Volume 100: Issue 1
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This article examines three medieval charters of the Norman abbey of Mont Saint-Michel, today preserved among the collections of the John Rylands Research Institute and Library. Rare survivors of the destruction of the abbey’s archives in 1944, these charters previously formed part of the enormous private library assembled by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792–1872), antiquarian and bibliophile. They are here studied in detail for the first time, showcasing them not just for what they can tell us about the property to which they relate and the celebrated abbey to which it once belonged, but, more importantly, for what they reveal about the structure and organisation of the lost institutional archive of which they formed a part in the Middle Ages. This article also contextualises these charters within the wider Phillipps collection, exploring questions associated with the antiquarian practice of preserving and presenting medieval documents, a subject which has only recently begun to receive the scholarly attention it deserves.

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