4-B - [16th-century MANUSCRIPT]. [HOSPITALLERS OF SAINT JOHN. ORDER OF MALTA].

[16th-century MANUSCRIPT]. [HOSPITALLERS OF SAINT JOHN. ORDER OF MALTA]. [Notarial Minutes and Notes for the Diocese of Sarlat] (ca. 1500–1570) Large quarto. (280) folios (including 89, 127, 139–143, 181, and 262 blank pages). Soft-sewn reused vellum binding with flaps; brown ink writing, possibly from the 15th century, visible on the reverse side of the binding (vellum tarnished and soiled, slightly shrunken with small losses; quires slightly out of order; worn page edges, occasionally gnawed corners, traces of water damage or stains on a few quires, small lateral text losses on the first two folios, one small detached quire but no loss of text overall). An important 16th-century notarial manuscript from the Périgord Noir region, written in Latin and Latin Farsi in brown ink by multiple scribes. Approximately 30 to 50 lines per folio with a margin left on the left. There are several fairly elaborate handwritten signatures, including Maltese crosses, as well as several Maltese crosses drawn in ink in the margins. A few roughly calligraphic initials. At times, there are numerous annotations in the margins to the left of the text. There are crossed-out sections, corrections, and line erasures. ecclesiastical documents the “Confraternity of the Holy Spirit of Saliniac” (Salignac, in the Dordogne), the Raymond and Pierre de Frayssinet families, and a text written in a mixed language (Latin-Occitan) It appears that the documents were compiled into the notebooks at a later date on vellum, as they do not always follow a chronological order. They were likely “numbered” at that time using a consecutive folio numbering system in Roman capital letters, which appears in the upper left corner of the folios. The document may be part of a series, as the numbering begins on the first folio at CCC and ends at CCCCXL. wills or confessions sometimes numerous annotations in the margins left blank to the left of the text AVEYRON. LOZÈRE. DORDOGNE. OCCITANIE. PERIGORD NOIR. The Maltese cross in Occitanie, and more specifically in the department of Aveyron, is associated with military religious orders. Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem (Order of Malta), Templars? New section beginning on ff. 81 Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of Salignac AVEYRON. LOZERE. DORDOGNE. OCCITANIE. LANGUE d'OC.