Title: Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. lat. 4939 (Chronicon Sanctae Sophiae), ed. CSS, III, 42, pp. 557-559
Document number: 3522
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: 979 November 24
Topical date: Benevento
Dating elements: Indizione bizantina.
Date/period of redaction: XII pm
Keywords: allocation to individuals, datium, exemption, fidelis of, fiscal property, freeborn, gastaldus/vicegastaldus, immunity, intercessory, iure proprietatis/pleno iure, notary, object, other clerics, outflow, princeps, property of persons without heirs, public exactions, redistributive, servitium, writer.
Editions and document summaries: Editions: IS1 VIII, col. 649C-650D; IS2 X-2, col. 473B-474A; CSS, III, 42, pp. 557-559 (source of the text reproduced here). Document summaries: Di Meo 1795-1819, VI, p. 142; Poupardin 1907, Catalogue, I, n. 134 (v. Smidt p. 123); Voigt 1902, 175.
Bibliography: De Francesco 1909-1910, p. 437, nt. 2; Bertolini O. 1926, 147.
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 dai principi Pandolfo I e Landolfo IV.