Provins, Chapelle Comtal
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PROVI-P

Building Data for Provins, Chapelle Comtal

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  • Type: Chapel
  • Affiliation:
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  • Region: Ile-de-France
  • Department: Seine-et-Marne
  • Coords: 48.56, 3.2930
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  • Surveyed: 1983, 1998, 2016

Map

Studies These draft studies have been written as if all carvings were by an individual whereas they can equally be analysed as template modes employed by a number of carvers. The more personal approach was necessitated by the complexity of the data. The drafts will be reconsidered after I have added the rib vault material to the database.
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These draft studies have been written as if all carvings were by an individual whereas they can equally be analysed as template modes employed by a number of carvers. The more personal approach was necessitated by the complexity of the data. The drafts will be reconsidered after I have added the rib vault material to the database.

Documents for Provins, Chapelle Comtal

1178



Dedicated October 2.

DEDICATIO BEATE MARIE DE AULA PRUVINENSI. ANNUALE

Dedication of Notre-Dame of the palace of Provins. Annual.

Source: Molinier, 1902, i, 996.

Obit written before 1297. It refers only to the annual observance of the anniversary of the dedication and is not dated. However, the commentary indicates ‘from 1178’.

1179



Chapels mentioned.

FUNDATIO CAPELLAE IN CASTELLO PRUVINENSI PRO CAMERA REGIA ...EGO HENRICUS TRECENSIUM COMES PALATINUS, NOTUM FACIAE PRAESENTIBUS ET FUTURIS, QUOD CUM APUD PRUVINUM IN HONORE B. ET GLORIOSAE DEI GENETRICIS MARIAE CAPELLAM AD SERVITIUM DEI CONSTRUXERIM...

Foundation of a chapel in the castle of Provins for the royal court ...Henri de Troyes, count of the palace, let it be known in the present and the future, that when in Provins I built a chapel for the service of God in honor of Mary, saint and glorious mother of God.

Source: GC, 1751, xii, Instrumenta, col. 56. See also Maillé, 1939, 178, note 2.