Details

Subjects:

Holy Roman Empire -- History -- 843-1273.
Italy -- History -- Germanic rule, 962-1268.
Italy.
History.

Form/Genre:

Diplomas.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language:

In Latin.

Biography/History:

Otto III reigned 996-1002.

Summary:

Diploma issued to Adam, son of Teutio. It takes Adam under imperial protection and gives him the right to live under Roman law.

Notes:

Dated 10 July 1000, in Pavia. Date given on line 11.
Written in a notarial hand.
Incipit: In nomine sanctae ... Notum sit omnibus fidelibus.
Explicit: ... hanc paginam sigillare iussimus. Heribertus cancellarius vice petri cumani episcopi novit.

Penn Provenance:

J. F. Böhmer, Die Regesten des Kaiserreiches unter Otto III, indicates that this diploma was once in the Archivio Magherini Graziani.
Purchased from L. Witten, New Haven, 1957.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Rudolf Hirsch. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 154 (Ms. Lea 27).
Text and bibliography given in Böhmer, J. F. Die Regesten des Kaiserreiches unter Otto III, new edition (1956), no. 1386.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Oversize 8

Contributor:

Adam, son of Teutio.

OCLC:

155962581