Title: Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4939 (Chronicon Sanctae Sophiae), ed. CSS, III, 12, pp. 500-501
Document number: 1391
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: 838 January
Topical date: Benevento
Date/period of redaction: XII pm
Keywords: allocation to individuals, confiscation, fiscal property, gold, houses, inflow, intercessory, iure proprietatis/pleno iure, marepahis, mention, object, other palatine officer, outflow, princeps, property of criminals/political traitors, redistributive, slave, specialized workers, vir gloriosus/vir sublimis.
Editions and document summaries: Editions: IS1 VIII, col. 630D-631B; IS2 X-2, col. 461A-B; CSS, III, 12, pp. 500-501 (source of the text reproduced here). Document summaries: Di Meo 1795-1819, III, p. 375; Poupardin 1907, Catalogue, I, n. 36 (v. Smidt 1910, p. 116); Voigt 1902, 53 (52?); Bertolini P. 1968, pp. 128-129, n. 19. RIM 657 (v. 655).
Bibliography: Bertolini O. 1926, 111.
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 Sicardo.