chartulary

[ kahr-chuh-ler-ee ]

noun

, plural char·tu·lar·ies.

1. a register of charters, title deeds, etc.
2. an archivist.

chartulary

/ ˈtʃɑːtjʊlərɪ /

noun

1. a variant of cartulary

Word History and Origins

Origin of chartulary¹

1565–75; < Medieval Latin chartulārium, equivalent to Latin chartul ( a ) charter + -ārium -ary

Example Sentences

Rules for the disposition of the income of a house were sometimes drawn up by a more than usually thrifty treasuress for the guidance of her successors, and kept in the register or chartulary of the nunnery.

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Not a book, nor cross, nor chalice, register, nor chartulary remains.

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It was from a modern transcript among these that Hearne edited the Historia Regum Angliæ of John Ross or Rouse; and seventy-one documents from No. 23, which is an Hereford Chartulary, were printed by Rawlinson at the end of his History of Hereford, 8o, Lond.

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The York Chartulary, Giraldus Cambrensis, and the Armagh records, make C�le-d� = colideus and coelicula, as if c�le was equivalent to the Latin colo.

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In York, at the dissolution of monasteries, there existed an hospital called St. Leonard's, the chartulary of which tells us that in 836 King Athelstan found in St. Peter's Church, York, men of holy life, called Kolidei, who maintained out of scanty resources a number of poor men.

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