• Material is open for research.
• Manuscript, on parchment, in a single cursive hand, containing the details of a bequest for commemorative Masses to be said by priests of the Guild of Saint Nicholas for Melcior de Wale of Ypres (modern Ieper), Flanders and members of his family. The document specifies the donations of land, money, and candle wax given by de Wale to the Guild, as well as the details of the services to be performed in his memory, including annual sung Masses and distribution of alms to the poor of the town.
• Purchased from Les Enluminures on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2014.
• Layout: single-column, up to 21 lines on a page.
• Script: written in a littera cursiva script.
• Binding: contemporary parchment wrapper, stitched.
• Deed for the Foundation of Commemorative Masses for Melcior de Wade. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Subjects:

• De Wale, Melcior.
• De Wale family.
• Charitable bequests -- Early works to 1800.
• Church property -- Ieper (Belgium) -- Early works to 1800.
• Endowments
• Legacies -- Early works to 1800.
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven.
• Ieper (Belgium)
• Deeds -- Ieper (Belgium) -- 15th century.2 aat
• Manuscripts, Medieval -- Ieper (Belgium) -- 15th century.
• Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.