The Steiner collection consists of more than 50 items and contains loose parchment
charters, parchment rolls, bound paper and parchment codices from the fourteenth through
the nineteenth century. The physical appearance of the items is of as much historical
interest as their contents; three parchment sheets have been reused as book covers, and
some of the codices are fine examples of post-medieval bookbinding. The contents of the
collection include a Nativity play, an Islamic law code, private wills, sales, court
cases, a formulary from an episcopal chancery, and private notebooks. Most of the
materials originated in northeast Spain, including Barcelona, Valencia, and Catalonia. A
small portion of the collection comes from Toledo. Four additional French parchment
notarial registers from the 12th and 13th centuries are not included in this checklist,
and the Alcuin Library of St. John's University holds many additional medieval
manuscripts. The Steiner Collection documents detailed below are written in Latin,
Castilian, Catalan, or Portuguese.
The Steiner Collection of leaves and codices is housed in the Alcuin Library of St.
John's University, Collegeville, MN. Please contact the Hill Library for more information
and for permission to reproduce either images or transcriptions.
Manuscript Collections
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