Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A collection of deeds or charters, especially a register of titles to all the property of an estate or monastery.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See chartulary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.
  • noun An ecclesiastical officer who had charge of records or other public papers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun ecclesiastical A register, or record, as of a monastery or church.
  • noun ecclesiastical An ecclesiastical officer who had charge of records or other public papers.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English cartularie, collection of documents, from Medieval Latin cartulārium, from Latin cartula, chartula, document; see charter.]

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From Medieval Latin chartularium, from Latin chartula.

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Examples

  • The first cartulary translated below is an order for alert for a forthcoming campaign, and is of high value for its information on the organizational practicalities of campaigning.

    De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » Medieval Warfare in the reign of Charlemagne 2009

  • He appears in the cartulary of the Holy Trinity, Aldgate, as an alderman in 1249 and 1250, was associated with the parish of St John, Walbrook and had an estate in Bishopsgate.3 But little is known of his origins; indeed, his mysterious background evokes Bedes comparison of the passage of a mans life with the flight of a single sparrow through a chieftains banqueting hall.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • He appears in the cartulary of the Holy Trinity, Aldgate, as an alderman in 1249 and 1250, was associated with the parish of St John, Walbrook and had an estate in Bishopsgate.3 But little is known of his origins; indeed, his mysterious background evokes Bedes comparison of the passage of a mans life with the flight of a single sparrow through a chieftains banqueting hall.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • This is an incidental allusion to him on the cartulary of Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate, which shows him in a more favourable light.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • He appears in the cartulary of the Holy Trinity, Aldgate, as an alderman in 1249 and 1250, was associated with the parish of St John, Walbrook and had an estate in Bishopsgate.3 But little is known of his origins; indeed, his mysterious background evokes Bedes comparison of the passage of a mans life with the flight of a single sparrow through a chieftains banqueting hall.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • This is an incidental allusion to him on the cartulary of Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate, which shows him in a more favourable light.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • This is an incidental allusion to him on the cartulary of Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate, which shows him in a more favourable light.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • From 1298, when Henry de Harenhale was appointed, the list of vicars is complete, but in a cartulary of the priory mention is made of Ralph de Sowe, vicar of Trinity, as giving a tenement in Well Street, for the celebration of his anniversary.

    The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse

  • As owner of this fief, Claude Follow was one of the “seven times twenty-one” seigneurs claiming manorial dues in Paris and its suburbs; and in that capacity his name was long to be seen inscribed between the Hôtel de Tancarville, belonging to Maître François le Rez, and the College of Tours, in the cartulary deposited at Saint-Martin des Champs.

    II. Claude Frollo. Book IV 1917

  • Among the abbots of St. Vincent were: St. Gerard (close of the eleventh century), who wrote the history of St. Adelard, abbot of Corde; Jean de Nouelles (d. 1396), who wrote a history of the world, and began the cartulary of his monastery.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

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  • a place or register for records

    November 6, 2007