A document with pendent seals of two brothers
Confirmation of a tithe to the monastery of St Lambert, diocese of Speyer, in Latin, manuscript on vellum. Dated 4 January 1269.
A rare example of a document with large pendent seals of two brothers.

c. 125 × 215mm, the lower 20mm folded up. 9 lines in documentary script, confirming a sixth part of a tithe at Rüssingen: ‘Philippus et Thilmannus fratres iuniores de Hohinvels [Hohenfels, between Nuremberg and Regensburg] recognoscimus … super sexta parte decime in Russingen pro conventu sancti Lamberti Spirensis diocesis … Datum anno domini m.cc.lxviij ij Non. Januarij’, with two dark brown wax seals joined by vellum tags to the document (and originally to each other), one depicting a wheel with nine spokes (apparently Tilmanns’s) and the other (apparently Philip’s) with a shield bearing the same wheel, each with a legend beginning ‘+ SIG[illum … ]’ and ending ‘[ … ] DE HOINVELS’; endorsed ‘Littera filiorum seniores de Hoenvilse super recognitione decime in Russingen [added: sexte partis]’ (the document with minor stains and folds, the seals worn and chipped around the edges)

Provenance:
Colker MS 209; acquired in 1972 from Alan Thomas.

The 10th-century Benedictine monastery of St Lambert/Lambrecht became a Dominican nunnery in 1260, less than a decade before the date of this document (Cottineau, Répertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés, II, col. 2756); it is about 20 miles or 35km west of Speyer.

Philip de Hohinvels is presumably the man of this name who is mentioned in various documents concerning Eberbach Abbey (about 30 miles or 55km north-east of Speyer) from 1261 to 1267 (Karl Rossel, Urkundenbuch der Abtei Eberbach im Rheingau, II (1865), nos. 356, 358, 384, and 407).

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