FISCUS
[I]n nomine Domini Dei Salvatoris nostri Iesu Christi. Nos vir gloriosissimusvir gloriosus/vir sublimis Sicoprinceps Dei previdentia Beneventane provincie princepsprinceps, motus omni potentis Dei misericordia et pro redemptione anime nostre, suggerente gloriose potestatis nostre Radichisintercessory, other palatine officer referendariusintercessory, other palatine officer fidelisfidelis of noster, concedimus in monasterio Beate SophięJURIDICAL PERSON: monasteries; KEYWORD: monasteries, ubi Arigisaabbesses abbatissaabbesses preesse videtur, omnis portaticumpublic exactions, tolls quod ex ipso cenobio per consuetudinem de vinowine seu triticocereals, maiores vel omnia alimonia aut quamlibet rebus dare debetis nostris portarariisclusae/gates, public exactions in civitatem has Beneventanas tam de domnicalepublic exactions quam etiam de servisslave ipsius monasterii seu de liberis hominibusfreeborn inibi pertinentibus quibus in prephata nostra civitatem suas miserint causas, ita ut nec a gastaldiis nostris nęque portarariis aut quamlibet personam accipiantur, sed cunta que annualiter ex ipso cenobio in predictam nostram civitatem missa fuerint sive ab eius servis quam liberis hominibus, sicut supra statuimus, sine omni dationefiscal property, object, redistributive, outflow, allocation to churches, privileges, exemption inibi mittantur et habeantur et a nullis ex nostris iudicibus, id est comitibus, gastaldiis, vel a quibuscumque agentibus habeant requisitionem custodes prephati monasterii vel hii alii, sed amodo et perpetuis temporibus ea que nunc concessimus ibidem securiter possideantur. Quod vero preceptus concessionis ex iussionis nominate potestatis scripsi ego Leonotary notariusnotary. Actus Sabavillages/settlements, fiscal property, residential, public exactions, exemption quinto anno, [*******] mense augustu, quarta decima indictione. Feliciter.
Title: Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4939 (Chronicon Sanctae Sophiae), ed. CSS, I, 26, pp. 379-380
Document number: 1341
Author(s): Paola Massa (file creation on 2021-12-12); Paola Massa (last change on 2021-12-12)
Record source: Critical edition
Document type: Marquis’/ducal/princely diploma
Document tradition: Copy
Fiscal property: Yes
Provenance: Sancta Sophia; monasterium (Benevento)
Date: 821 August
Topical date: Saba
Date/period of redaction: XII pm
Keywords: abbesses, allocation to churches, cereals, clusae/gates, exemption, fidelis of, fiscal property, freeborn, intercessory, maiores, monasteries, notary, object, other palatine officer, outflow, princeps, privileges, public exactions, redistributive, slave, tolls, vir gloriosus/vir sublimis, wine.
Editions and document summaries: Editions: IS1 VIII, col. 591B-D; IS2 X-2, col. 435A-B; CSS, I, 26, pp. 379-380 (source of the text reproduced here). Document summaries: Di Meo 1795-1819, III, p. 316; Voigt 1902, 38; Poupardin 1907, Catalogue, I, n. 20; Bertolini P. 1968, pp. 118-119, n. 10; RIM, n. 595.
Bibliography: Di Meo 1795-1819, III, p. 37; Bertolini O. 1926, 102.
Links: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.4939
Commentary
Il cod. Vat. lat. 4939, noto come Liber preceptorum Beneventani monasterii S. Sophiae o, più comunemente, come Chronicon S. Sophiae, fu redatto nello scriptorium del monastero di S. Sofia di Benevento e terminato nell'anno 1119. Il documento è emesso dal principe Sicone I.