Burgundian Charters

Burgundy during the Middle Ages is a goldmine of archives. Thousands of charters, wills, pontifical privileges, foundation acts, and literally hundreds of cartularies—among the legal and diplomatic documents—have been kept for some reason.

Digitisation of  – or parts of all this – started in 2004 as part of a larger project: “Chartes et pouvoir au Moyen Âge” which was conducted under the auspices of MSH – Maison des sciences de l’homme. (Of this project a digitised footprint seems to have disappeared…

The project is important because the cartularies concerns such grand institutions as Cluny and Citeaux. So-far 20 cartularies including 15000 documents have been digitized from the regions of Côte-d’Or,  Nièvre, Saône-et-Loire and Yonne. At the site a collection of articles as well as digitized editions from the 19^th and 20^th century are available. The documents are available in txt, doc, pdf as well as image. Unpublished cartularies from Mediaeval Burgundy are also available in the database and can be flipped or scrolled through.

Recently the team provided access to four editions from the 20^th century, the cartulary of Sens, the charters of St. Etienne de Dijon, more charters from the abbey of Citeaux and the proceedings of the priory of Saint-Sympherien; thus adding to this very impressive collection.

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