CHAÃTEAUBRIANTTHERE ARE NO EXTANT MANUSCRIPTS OF THE CHAÃTEAUBRIANT...

There are no extant manuscripts of the ChaÃteaubriant text earlier than the ®fteenth

century, when it appears in two manuscripts of the `Chronicle of Saint-Brieuc'.

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This text is quite corrupt; it contains not only simple scribal errors (for example,

`Quitto' for `Guethenoc') but also a deliberate alteration and gloss on the text in

substituting for `maritagium' the words, `menagium id est domus vacans'.

Planiol also identi®ed the ChaÃteaubriant copy in three ®fteenth-century manu-

scripts of the `TreÂs Ancienne Coutume de Bretagne'.

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All three manuscripts are in

French except for the texts of the Assize which are all in Latin, which suggests that

the Assize, in each case, has been copied from an earlier manuscript or manuscripts.