Letter 12041
Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)→Unknown|gregory great
From: Pope Gregory I
To: Pantaleon, Notary
Date: ~602 AD
Context: Gregory addresses what is to be done with the remaining clergy, funds, and goods of certain churches
The churches in question have remaining resources — financial funds, clergy, and other assets — that need to be properly accounted for and responsibly managed pending whatever permanent arrangements are made. I am directing you to take an inventory of all these resources, ensure they are securely held, and report to me with a complete picture. No portion of these remaining assets is to be dispersed without my explicit authorization. I will give further directions once I have seen your inventory.
AD PANTALEONEM NOTARIUM.
De Ecclesiarum quarumdam superslitibus tum pecuniis,
tum clericis, tum rebus aliis.
Gregorius Pantaleoni notario.
Exspectabamus ut nos experientia tua de argento
Ecelesiarum, vel aliis quas invenit rebus, omnino
subliliter redderet certiores, ut ex ejus renuntiations
quod fieri debuisset deliberare minutius poluissemus.
Sed nou nos ita renuvtiatio tua ut oporiebat in-
struxit. Curz ergo tuz sit ut argentum Eeclesiarum,
quod clerus et populus habet, apud quos previderis,
in ® cimiliarchio ecclesiz sub omni sollicitudine at-
que cautela deponas, atque de eodem deposilo inde
Susceptum accipias. Argenium vero Ecclesiarum,
quod pro peccatis a clero et populo destitutum est,
tecum huc defer. Si forte tres aut quatuor clericos
de ipsis Ecclesiis cognoveris remansisse, ſacita noll-
tia, quis quomodo est, vel ubi habitat, nobis deſer,
ut eis, si necessarium viderimus, quid singulis att»
nis accipere debeant, $latuere valeamus. Res vero
quz vetustale perire possunt, tecum similiter defer,
ut ex eis quod utile visum fuerit L YOY dis ponatur.
esse ab illo patricio qui, cum esset monachus, ux0-
rem duxerat, 8vpra ostendimus in notis ad epist. 4
hujus libri. Confer notas Gussanvillei in has ept-
Stolas, et miraberis viri docti incogitaniam.
Quippe in nota ad epist. 4 contendit epistvlam hanc
loco esse motam, quia Venantius ad quem scriptam
eam putat jam anno przeterito e vivis sublatus ſueral-
Ia nota autem ad hane epist. 40, quz Gusganvill.r0
est 45, hc obvervat : Convaluerat preler spem Ve-
nantius, ut supra monuimus, Ecce cunvaluit et vivit
indict. 5 qui indict. 4 obieral.
Eersr. XLI [Al. 46.] — *Antea, male , cimiliar-
cho. Quid $it autem cimiliarchium , dixi ad epist. 10,
nuuc 20, lib. 1.
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1949 EPISTOLARUM LIB. XII. — INDICT. V. —-EPIST. XLY. 4250
To autem Protegente Domino inventa navigii pro- A cti vel cautionis quam misimus. Ita ergo $anciitas
gperilaie reverlere.
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From: Pope Gregory I
To: Pantaleon, Notary
Date: ~602 AD
Context: Gregory addresses what is to be done with the remaining clergy, funds, and goods of certain churches
The churches in question have remaining resources — financial funds, clergy, and other assets — that need to be properly accounted for and responsibly managed pending whatever permanent arrangements are made. I am directing you to take an inventory of all these resources, ensure they are securely held, and report to me with a complete picture. No portion of these remaining assets is to be dispersed without my explicit authorization. I will give further directions once I have seen your inventory.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.