FISCUS
[I]n nomine Domini Dei Salvatoris nostri Iesu Christi. Concessimus nos vir gloriosissimusvir gloriosus/vir sublimis Radelgariusprinceps Dei previdentia Langobardorum gentis princepsprinceps, per rogumintercessory Tasselgardeintercessory, principissa dilecte coniugis nostre, tibi Autulogold, specialized workers aurificigold, specialized workers nostro rem illamfiscal property, object, redistributive, outflow, iure proprietatis/pleno iure, allocation to individuals in Bitoranuvillages/settlements, landed possessions, fiscal property et in Cursanum in finibus Folianensisvillages/settlements, fiscal property que fuit de servisslave sacris nostri palatiipalatium, quam liberi hominesfreeborn per annos viginti sine preceptum tenuntfiscal property, mention, inflow, confiscation, in ea videlicet ratione ut amodo et deinceps per hoc nostrum roboreum preceptum predictam rem tu et heredes tui habere et possidere valeatis, et a nullo ex nostris iudicibus, id est comitibus, gastaldeis vel a quibuscumque agentibus habeatis aliquam requisitionem, sed perpetuis temporibus possideatis. Quod vero preceptum concessionis ex iussione nominate potestatis scripsi ego Benedictusnotary notariusnotary. Actum Beneventicities primo anno, mense novembrio, quarta decima indictione. Feliciter.
Title: Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4939 (Chronicon Sanctae Sophiae), ed. CSS, III, 17, pp. 507-506
Document number: 1396
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: 850 November
Topical date: Benevento
Dating elements: Indizione bizantina.
Date/period of redaction: XII pm
Keywords: allocation to individuals, confiscation, fiscal property, freeborn, gold, inflow, intercessory, iure proprietatis/pleno iure, mention, notary, object, outflow, palatium, princeps, redistributive, slave, specialized workers, vir gloriosus/vir sublimis.
Editions and document summaries: Editions: IS1 VIII, col. 633A-C; IS2 X-2, col. 462C-D; CSS, III, 17, pp. 507-508 (source of the text reproduced here). Document summaries: Di Meo 1795-1819, IV, p. 13; Poupardin 1907, Catalogue, I, n. 47 (v. Smidt 1910, p. 117); Voigt 1902, 63; RIM, 732.
Bibliography: Bertolini O. 1926, 121.
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 Radelgario.