Title: Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4939 (Chronicon Sanctae Sophiae), ed. CSS, I, 41, pp. 408-411
Document number: 1356
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: 966 May 4
Topical date: Capua (Caserta)
Date/period of redaction: XII pm
Keywords: abbots, allocation to churches, cities, confiscation, curtes, exemption, fiscal property, freeborn, inflow, iure proprietatis/pleno iure, landed possessions, mention, monasteries, notary, object, outflow, parchment documents, princeps, privileges, property of persons without heirs, redistributive.
Editions and document summaries: Editions: IS1 VIII, col. 601A-602A; IS2 X-2, col. 441C-442A; CSS, I, 41, pp. 408-410 (source of the text reproduced here). Document summaries: Di Meo 1795-1819, VI, pp. 38-39; Poupardin 1907, Catalogue, I, n. 117; Voigt 1902, 160.
Bibliography: Bertolini O. 1926, 144.
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 dai principi Pandolfo I e Landolfo III.