Letter 12016
Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)→Unknown|gregory great
From: Gregory the Great, Pope, in Rome
To: Azimarcus, scribo [court secretary]
Date: ~602 AD
Context: Gregory writes about Laurentius helping Azimarcus with the financial accounting for the late Bonifatius.
Gregory to Azimarcus, scribo.
Laurentius is to help you with the financial accounts of the late Bonifatius. I understand this is a complicated matter. Do the work carefully and honestly, and bring the completed accounts to me.
The accuracy of these accounts matters both for what they establish about past transactions and for what they determine about future obligations and disbursements.
Gregory
AD AZIMAKCHOM SCRIBONEM.
Laurentio Boniſacii quondam numerarii rationes apud
Leontium exponenti ſaveat.
Gregorius Azimarcho Scriboni. Þ
Magnitudinem vestram, quo lempore hic in 'Ro-
mana urbe ſuit, cognovisse recolimus Boniſacium
quondam numerarium, condilo testamento, L 19]
partem aliquam hereditatis sn2# xenodochio quod
ad sanctum Petrum apostolorum principem situm
est reliquisse. Et quoniam gerere nos soliicitudinem
diximus ut ad gloriosum filium nostrum Leontium
persona pro exponendis ratiociniis ipsius mitteretur,
curam ut compleri debuisset habuimus. Idcirco quia
Laurentius vir clarissimus preasentium portitor ad
hoc illud noscitur esse transmissus, magnitudi-
nem veslram paterna dilectione salutantes, petimus
ut ei hac in causa concurrere, alque vestra, sicut de
vobis confidimus , salva justitia impendere patroci-
nia debeatis, qualenus dum sinceri>zsime bonitalis
vestre ſueril ope suſſultus, et de viduitale mulieris
quondam Boniſacii, et de pauperibus quibus, sicut
dicimus, idem Bonifacius heredilatis suz partem
aliquam dereliquit,, mercedem apud omnipotentem.
Dewn acquiratis.
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From: Gregory the Great, Pope, in Rome
To: Azimarcus, scribo [court secretary]
Date: ~602 AD
Context: Gregory writes about Laurentius helping Azimarcus with the financial accounting for the late Bonifatius.
Gregory to Azimarcus, scribo.
Laurentius is to help you with the financial accounts of the late Bonifatius. I understand this is a complicated matter. Do the work carefully and honestly, and bring the completed accounts to me.
The accuracy of these accounts matters both for what they establish about past transactions and for what they determine about future obligations and disbursements.
Gregory
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.