Title: Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4939 (Chronicon Sanctae Sophiae), ed. CSS, II, 22, pp. 475-476
Document number: 1379
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: 876 February
Topical date: Benevento
Date/period of redaction: XII pm
Keywords: abbots, aldius, allocation to individuals, angaria, census, datium, fidelis of, fiscal property, immunity, intercessory, marepahis, medical doctors, monasteries, object, outflow, prevosts, princeps, redistributive, vir gloriosus/vir sublimis.
Editions and document summaries: Editions: IS1, VIII (1962), col. 623 A-B; IS2 X-2, col. 455D-456A; CSS, II, 22, pp. 475-476 (source of the text reproduced here). Document summaries: Di Meo 1795-1819, IV, pp. 313-314; Poupardin 1907, Catalogue, I, n. 53 (v. Smidt 1910, p. 118); Voigt 1902, 68; RIM, 911.
Bibliography: Falco 1929, p. 519; Bertolini O. 1926, 126.
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.