In 777 a Frankish king named Charles had just subdued most of the Lombards of Italy and was expanding his power base.
A land deed in Italy that year acknowledged the new ruler as Carulo regem Francorum et Langobardorum and was dated May 15 in anno regni euis tertio of his Lombard overlordship. This thrilling scrap of parchment, inscribed in a strange hand with exaggerated uprights, carries us back to the early days of Charlemagne before he became Holy Roman Emperor.
The record of the land deal by the brothers Tuniperto and Teutperto (see details by GeorgiaV below) has just been digitized at the Vatican Library. It is kept in an album, Chig.E.VII.214 which contains a miscellany of old deeds. Another dates back to 1049. Not quite a thousand years old:
The full list of 32 items follows.
A land deed in Italy that year acknowledged the new ruler as Carulo regem Francorum et Langobardorum and was dated May 15 in anno regni euis tertio of his Lombard overlordship. This thrilling scrap of parchment, inscribed in a strange hand with exaggerated uprights, carries us back to the early days of Charlemagne before he became Holy Roman Emperor.
The record of the land deal by the brothers Tuniperto and Teutperto (see details by GeorgiaV below) has just been digitized at the Vatican Library. It is kept in an album, Chig.E.VII.214 which contains a miscellany of old deeds. Another dates back to 1049. Not quite a thousand years old:
The full list of 32 items follows.
- Chig.E.VII.214, old deeds including 777 document (above), listed TM 382978 = ChLA 22 723
Now, isn't this late 8thC script just lovely? 😍
— GiorgiaV (@ParvaVox) September 5, 2018
The charter was issued in #Lucca in 777 when Bishop Peredeus provided two brothers with lands to "work, manage and improve" against the payment of a rent (wine, swine, goat) + various obligations (angariae)https://t.co/89BSHOAfnL pic.twitter.com/bjlvkpGopP - Ross.18,
- Ross.22, MS with Bestiary texts (i.a. Hugh of Folieto's De Avibus) from @JBPiggin's list of @DigitaVaticana MSS. Copied in Cambrai in 1469.https://t.co/OWW4y8bnUa pic.twitter.com/p0931nevN5— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) September 2, 2018
- Ross.32,
- Ross.35,
- Vat.lat.568,
- Vat.lat.2287, 15th century, listed by Brendan McManus as: Bartolus, Lectura in primam partem Digesti Noui [39.1-44.7] (1ra-149ra); Bartolus, Lectura in secundam partem Digesti Noui [45.1-50.17] (151ra-383vb)
- Vat.lat.2308,
- Vat.lat.2313,
- Vat.lat.2316, the Summa Hostiensis, a legal compendium, with this late arbor affinitatis, empty of any script: Hermann Schadt (Die Darstellungen der Arbores, page 270) dates it to the 14th century. Notice how there are bands above, which seem to come from the people's knees. These are branches growing from the so-called arbor (Latin for tree). Compare how the branches are rounded into one another above, and drawn up into an X shape in a more ornate arbor of the same period in Florence, Plut.1 sin.10 (IT:FI0100_Plutei_01sin.10_0003):
- Vat.lat.2341,
- Vat.lat.2589,
- Vat.lat.2611,
- Vat.lat.2695,
- Vat.lat.2721,
- Vat.lat.3049, Commentary by "Robertus Anglicus" on Peter of Spain's Summulae Logicales. One of the highlights among the new digitized MSS @DigitaVaticana listed by @JBPiggin. https://t.co/3hez2RnGJV pic.twitter.com/AU2McllUl4— Pieter Beullens (@LatinAristotle) September 2, 2018
- Vat.lat.3066,
- Vat.lat.3462,
- Vat.lat.3526,
- Vat.lat.3545,
- Vat.lat.3710,
- Vat.lat.3726,
- Vat.lat.3758,
- Vat.lat.3763,
- Vat.lat.3766,
- Vat.lat.3840 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.3842,
- Vat.lat.3847 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.3848 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.3859 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.3883 (Upgraded to HQ),
- Vat.lat.3884 (Upgraded to HQ),
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