Title: Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4939 (Chronicon Sanctae Sophiae), ed. CSS, II, 6, pp. 439-443
Document number: 1364
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: 745 July
Topical date: Benevento
Date/period of redaction: XII pm
Keywords: abbots, agricultural workers, allocation to churches, casalia, cheese, churches, cities, copper, cows, curtes, domuscultae, exemption, fiscal property, fruits/vegetables, horses, houses, immunity, iure proprietatis/pleno iure, landed possessions, marquis/duke, marquis’/ducal/princely diploma, mills, notary, object, other palatine officer, outflow, priests, private foundations, privileges, public exactions, redistributive, sheep, silver, slave, specialized workers, vir gloriosus/vir sublimis, wine.
Editions and document summaries: Editions: IS2 VIII, coll. 611-612; IS2, X, col. 448; TROYA, CDL, IV, 578, pp. 171-174; Bertolini P. 2002, 55, pp. 464-477; CSS, II, 06, pp. 439-443 (source of the text reproduced here); CDL, IV/2, n. 24, pp. 82-86. Document summaries: Assemanus 1751-1753, II, p. 580; Bethmann, Holder-Egger 1878, 161 (v. Smidt 1910, p. 137); Chroust 1888, 22 (v. Smidt 1910, p. 143); RIM, 278.
Bibliography: Bertolini O. 1926, 55.
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 duca Gisulfo II.