FISCUS
In nomine Domini Dei Salvatoris nostri Iesu Christi. Concessimus nos vir gloriosissimusvir gloriosus/vir sublimis Adelchisprinceps Dei previdentia Langubardorum gentis princepsprinceps, per rogumintercessory Maionisintercessory, child of filii nostriprinceps, in monasterio Sancte SophieJURIDICAL PERSON: monasteries; KEYWORD: monasteries omnes illas dationes vel pensionesfiscal property, object, redistributive, outflow, allocation to churches, public exactions, census, datium, exemption quascumque servisslave predicti monasterii ex finibus Campu Bassicities, fiscal property, privileges, exemption et ex finibus Bifernenserivers, gai, fiscal property ad gastaldigastaldus/vicegastaldus vel iudicibusjudge ex ipsis castellis seu locisvillages/settlements persolvere debunt per mala consuetudobonus/malus usus, ita ut nullum gastaldus vel iudex aliqua dationedatium eorum tollant vel angariaangaria faciant facere aut quacumque laborationesservitium utilitate sua faciant aut in hoste pergantur, in ea videlicet ratione ut amodo et deinceps per hoc nostrum roboreum preceptum omnia que superius leguntur predictum monasterium eiusque rectores habere et possidere valeant, et a nullo ex nostris iudicibus, id est comitibus, gastaldiis vel a quibuscumque agentibus habeatis aliquam requisitionem, sed perpetuis temporibus possideant. Quod vero preceptum concessionis ex iussione nominate potestatis scripsi ego Erchemfridnotary notariusnotary. Actum Trebentocities vicesimo quinto anno, mense magio, undecima indictione. Feliciter.
Title: Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4939 (Chronicon Sanctae Sophiae), ed. CSS, I, 36, pp. 396-398
Document number: 1351
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: 878 May
Topical date: Trivento (Campobasso)
Date/period of redaction: XII pm
Keywords: allocation to churches, angaria, bonus/malus usus, census, datium, exemption, fiscal property, gastaldus/vicegastaldus, intercessory, judge, monasteries, notary, object, outflow, princeps, public exactions, redistributive, servitium, slave, villages/settlements, vir gloriosus/vir sublimis.
Editions and document summaries: Editions: IS1 VIII, col. 596BD; IS2 X-2, col. 438B-C; CSS, I, 36, pp. 396-398 (source of the text reproduced here). Document summaries: Di Meo 1795-1819, IV, p. 334; Poupardin 1907, Catalogue, I, n. 55 (v. Smidt 1910, p. 118); Voigt 1902, 70; RIM, 953.
Bibliography: Bertolini O. 1926, 127; Falco 1929, p. 519.
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 Adelchi.