A Register of Boniface VIII's Chamberlain, Theoderic of Orvieto
No. 273 in the Vatican Archive series of Instrumenta Miscellanea is the surviving fragment of a register of letters despatched by Boniface VIII's camerarius, Theoderic of Orvieto. The register is on paper and consists of eleven folios, of which the last four are blank. The first three of the se...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1957
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 1957, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 141-152 |
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| Summary: | No. 273 in the Vatican Archive series of Instrumenta Miscellanea is the surviving fragment of a register of letters despatched by Boniface VIII's camerarius, Theoderic of Orvieto. The register is on paper and consists of eleven folios, of which the last four are blank. The first three of the seven folios used have been badly damaged by damp in consequence of which all but two of the first twelve letters in the register are illegible in parts. The fragmentary nature of the register in the form in which it has survived is proved by the fact that it begins and finishes in the middle of a letter. Including these two truncated letters, it contains twenty-eight letters. The earliest legible date of writing is 3 January 1297 and the latest is 17 July 1297, but in some cases no date is given and in others the full date is not legible. Since the letters are not registered in chronological order it is evident that, as with the contemporary registers of papal letters, they were not always copied into the register—or at least not into the register in the form in which it has survived—at the time when they were drawn up in the chamberlain's chancery. Several of the letters (nos. 15, 17 and 23) mention the fact that the chamberlain has caused a copy of the letter to be registered. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046900067440 |