Also spelt CHARTULARY, q.v. [ad. med.L. cart-, chartulārium, f. L. cartula, chartula, dim. of carta, charta, a paper, writing, charter; see CHART and -ARY, Cf. F. cartulaire (14th c. in Littré).]

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  ‘A place where papers or records are kept.’ (J.); whence the whole collection of records (belonging to a monastery, etc.); or the book in which they are entered; a register.

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1541.  R. Copland, Guydon’s Formul., T ij. Taken at the cartulary of mayster Peter [of Bonaco].

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1631.  Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., xiv. 99. Those cartularies, by which Saxon princes endowed their sacred structures.

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1761.  Hume, Hist. Eng., x. I. 217. An action … in which … the King of France’s cartulary and records … were taken.

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1848.  H. Miller, First Impr., iii. (1857), 37. The Cartulary of Moray—contains the Constitutiones Lyncolnienses.

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1868.  Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), II. App. 528. The cartulary of Saint Michael’s Mount contains two charters in which Eadward is called ‘rex.’

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