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ER 2281
DRAFT Flavius Valila also named Theodorus in the charter issued for the church the estate massa Cornutiana near Tivoli (Italy) provides donations for the houses and gardens of the clergy. The so-called Charta Cornutiana, AD 471.
Exemplar authenticum chartae, unde colligere eam potuimus, ecclesiae Cornutianae.
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videlicet ut divino ministerio subiecti competentem possint et de loco cui serviunt habere substantiam; illud quoque decorum putamus ut luminaribus templum cottidie divinae religionis ornetur et ingruentibus pro temporum prolixitate [necessitatibus] sarto tecto reparationique sumptus hoc nostro munere conlatus deesse non possit. Quibus rebus congruas procuramus expensas ut obsequium nostrum possit propitiationem divinitatis mereri. Qua consideratione permotus, largior tenore praesentis paginae ecclesiae Cornutanensis massae, quae iuris nostri est, a me ipso Dei favore et iuvamino consititutae atque fundatae, fundum Paternum maranus, fundum Mons Paternus, fundum Casa Martis, fundum Vegetes quod est Casa Proiectici et fundum Batilianum, excepta Sigillosa, filia Anastasii et Picae colonorum, quam iuri nostro retinuimus atque retinemus, provincia Piceni, Tiburtino territorio constitutos, pure et directe, liberalitatis titulo possidendos, cum omnibus ad se pertinentibus et cum omni iure instructoque instrmento suo, sicuti ipse possideo, cum omni scilicet onere professionis suae vel necessitate quam certum est formensia praedia sustinere.
Donamus etiam eidem ecclesiae solum in quo constituta est cum area sua et [a] praedicti praetorii iure separamus et ad faciendos hortos vel habitacula clericis custodibusque largimur, id est a cava arcus qui mittitur ad praetorium, et deinde per parietes qui contra praetorium redeuntes aream ecclesiae claudunt usque trans absidam; et de parietibus ipsis per sepem qui hortos inquilinorum qui in praetorium commanent videtur munire, quae sepis descendit et regammat ad viam cavam sive ad torum qui redit usque ad arcum suprascriptum; ut inter sepem et viam cavam post absidam supradicti clerici hortos possint habere.
The authentic copy of a charter of the Cornutian church, where we could read it.
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namely that those who are placed in the divine ministry could have a proper substance from the place in which they serve. We also consider this seemly that the temple of the divine religion is decorated everyday with lamps and that the fund we have granted by the present donation should never run out for the [necessities] which would come after some time like patching up the roof and other reparations. For these things we provide the fitting resources so that our service might deserve the propitiation of God. Driven by this consideration, by the force of the present page to the church in massa Cornutanensis, which belongs to our estate and which I myself has founded and established with God's favour and help, I donate the estates: Paternus maranus, Mons Paternus, Casa Martis, Vegetes that is Casa Proiectici, and the estate Batilianum with the exception of Sigillosa, the daughter of Anastasius and Pica, colons, whom we have been keeping and keep in our estate, which are in the province of Picenum, in the Tiburtine territory to be possessed purely and directly as the donations with everything that pertains to them and with all rights and provisions provided with them, just as I now possess them, but also with all charges and necessities of their profession, which for sure is the sustainment of the praedia formensia [the farms through which run the aqueducts].
We also donate to this church the grounds on which it is built with the surrounding area and we separate it from the lands belonging to the aforementioned praetorium and we offer it to create the gardens and houses for the clerics and guardians: that is from the valley of the arch which leads to the praetorium, and then by the walls which run in front of the praetorium and encompass the area of the church beyond the apse; and by these walls through the fence which surrounds the gardens of the tenants who stay in the praetorium, and this fence descends and turns at a right angle to reach the valley road and the bank which goes to the aforementioned arch, so that between the fence and the valley road behind the apse the aforementioned clerics could have gardens.

Place of event:

Region
  • Italy north of Rome with Corsica and Sardinia
City
  • Tivoli
  • Massa Cornutiana

About the source:

Author: Flavius Valila
Title: Charta Cornutiana
Origin: Tivoli (Italy north of Rome with Corsica and Sardinia)Massa Cornutiana (Italy north of Rome with Corsica and Sardinia),
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
Edition:
L. Duchesne (ed.), Le Liber pontificalis; texte, introduction et commentaire, vol. 1, Paris 1886, cxlvi-cxlvii

Categories:

Food/Clothes/Housing - Type of housing
    Described by a title - Clericus
      Economic status and activity - Farming
        Economic status and activity - Ownership or possession of land
          Economic status and activity - Gift
            Devotion - Donations and offerings
              Functions within the Church - Presbyter in a lay foundation
                Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER2281, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=2281
                Record by: Marta Szada
                last edited: 2019-08-14 10:29:05
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