Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4939 (Chronicon Sanctae Sophiae), ed. CSS, II, 22, pp. 475-476

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

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[I]n nomine Domini nostri Iesu Christi. Concessimus nos vir gloriosissimusvir gloriosus/vir sublimis Adelchisprinceps Dei previdentia Langubardorum gentis princepsprinceps, per rogumintercessoryAdeltrudeprincipissa dilecte coniugi nostre, tibi Crissiprevosts venerabili prepositiprevosts et medicimedical doctors fidelisfidelis of nostri Ermepertus et Ragempertus seu Ermenandus germani filii Mauri et Leo filio Causari, aldionesaldius monasterii Sancti BenedictiJURIDICAL PERSON: monasteries; KEYWORD: monasteries, qui sunt habitatores in Cepalonisvillages/settlements, fiscal property, privileges, exemption et pertinunt ipsis ex monasterio cuiusdam Guaconis marepahismarepahis, ut nullo in tempore dent pensionem nęque angaria faciant neque hostesKEYWORD: fiscal property, object, redistributive, outflow, allocation to individuals, immunity; KEYWORD: census; KEYWORD: angaria; KEYWORD: datium, in ea videlicet ratione ut ammodo et deinceps per hoc nostrum roboreum preceptum predicta omnia que prelegitur fimiter habere et possidere valeatis vos et rectores predicti monasterii, et a nullo ex nostris iudicibus, id est comitibus, gastaldis vel a quibuscumque agentibus habeatis aliquam requisitionem, sed perpetuis temporibus firmiter possideatis. Quod vero preceptum concessionis ex iussione nominate potestatis scripsi ego Thomaswriter, abbots abbasabbots. Actum Beneventocities vicesimo tertio anno, mense februario, nona indictione. Feliciter.

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.