Violant refers to earlier documents from Pere the Ceremonious to require officials to give Thomas Soler pension payments.
Episode 89
ACA CR R1822 f142v Source: PARES
Sourcing: the existence of the earlier document quoted inside this one indicates that the scribes had the ability to refer back to archival records from years prior
Contextualization: the difficulty of the paleography in this document presents a contextualization challenge, as I am not even certain of the location of the people mentioned in it; however, we do see at work here the legitimacy of Iberian queen lieutenancy as Violant now weighs in on a matter that had previously been addressed by the king, Joan’s father
Corroboration: while my difficulty understanding this document makes corroboration challenging, it might be helpful to compare this document to others that mention hefty penalties, such as the documents examined in Episode 34, Episode 40, and Episode 84
Close-Reading: Violant chose to issue a threat of a penalty of one hundred florins and that lends urgency to the resolution of whatever problem that has to do with Thomas Solers
The AI chatbots did worse at the transcription this go around, and I think this is due to my attempt to warn them about damage to the paper. I used Gemini for an initial transcription, which I then had Claude reconcile with its own initial transcription. Claude then produced a translation into English with footnotes.