{"slug":"tmp1351.tmp1351.opp-lat1","id":"latin:ogl-pl:tmp1351.tmp1351.opp-lat1","title":"Charta Renuntiationis Jurium Ecclesiae Sancti Martini","title_source":"Charta Renuntiationis Jurium Ecclesiae Sancti Martini","author":"Alphanus Beneventianus Episcopus","genre":"other","date":"","tradition":"latin","coverage":"not-located","coverage_claim":{"status":"not-located","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. That is not proof that none exists — translations in dissertations, recent books and other modern languages are easily missed."},"publication":{"status":"machine-draft","reviewed_by":null,"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","generated":"2026-11-15T05:59:13Z","cost_usd":0.001709},"source":{"registry_id":"latin:ogl-pl:tmp1351.tmp1351.opp-lat1","work_id":"tmp1351.tmp1351.opp-lat1","edition":"ogl-pl","language":"","license":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/patrologia_latina-dev/blob/master/data/tmp1351/tmp1351/tmp1351.tmp1351.opp-lat1.xml"},"stats":{"passages":3,"english_words":339,"coptic_letters":0,"source_letters":1569,"commentary_units":17,"commentary_kinds":6,"derived_notes":0,"ambiguities":6,"work_notes":4,"external_links":0,"timeline":4},"summary":{"work":"tmp1351.tmp1351.opp-lat1","abstract":"The Charta Renuntiationis Jurium Ecclesiae Sancti Martini is a formal episcopal charter in which Alphanus, Bishop of Benevento (1085–1112), renounces certain rights or claims held by his see over the Church of St. Martin. The document belongs to the genre of medieval Italian ecclesiastical charters, which were used to record legal transactions such as donations, exchanges, or relinquishments of jurisdiction. The text survives only in the OGL-PL digital collection, with no information about its manuscript basis, archival provenance, or earlier copies. The edition lacks critical apparatus, diplomatic transcription, or facsimile, making it impossible to verify readings or assess scribal interventions. The charter's date is unknown beyond the general period of Alphanus's episcopate, and no specific year or external dating evidence is provided.","historical_context":"The charter was issued during the episcopate of Alphanus I, who served as Bishop of Benevento from 1085 to 1112. Benevento was a major ecclesiastical center in southern Italy, then part of the Norman territories after the Norman conquest of the Lombard principality. The period saw ongoing tensions between papal and Norman authority, as well as internal church reform movements. Episcopal charters like this one were routine instruments of ecclesiastical administration, used to record legal acts such as renunciations of rights over dependent churches. The Church of St. Martin was likely a rural or urban proprietary church under the bishop's jurisdiction. The text survives only in a modern digital edition without critical apparatus; its manuscript basis is unknown, and no information is given about earlier copies or archival provenance. The charter's formulaic language and legal content are typical of the genre, but the lack of dating formula or specific context limits historical analysis.","significance":"This charter exemplifies the routine legal administration of the medieval Italian church, specifically the management of proprietary churches and episcopal rights. It provides a glimpse into the practical exercise of episcopal authority in the Norman period, though its value is limited by the absence of manuscript evidence and critical edition. It relates to broader patterns of ecclesiastical property management and the use of written records in southern Italy.","timeline":[{"date":"1085–1112","event":"Episcopate of Alphanus I, Bishop of Benevento, during which the charter was likely issued."},{"date":"11th–12th c.","event":"Norman consolidation of southern Italy, including Benevento, with ongoing church reform and papal involvement."},{"date":"Undated","event":"The charter is produced, but no specific year or indiction is recorded in the edition."},{"date":"Modern","event":"The text is included in the OGL-PL digital collection, without manuscript provenance or critical apparatus."}],"relations":[{"work":"Charta Renuntiationis Jurium Ecclesiae Sancti Martini","relation":"Similar episcopal charters from Benevento and other southern Italian sees","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Alphanus Beneventanus Episcopus","relation":"Other charters or documents associated with Bishop Alphanus I","key":"","label":null,"url":null}],"external_links":[],"cautions":["The date of the charter is unknown beyond the general period of Alphanus's episcopate (1085–1112); no specific year or external dating evidence is provided.","The manuscript basis of the text is not described; the edition lacks critical apparatus, diplomatic transcription, or facsimile, so readings cannot be verified.","No information is given about earlier copies or archival provenance, limiting the ability to assess the text's transmission or authenticity."],"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","cost_usd":0.000408,"generated":"2026-11-15T05:59:13Z"},"links":[{"kind":"source","label":"Open Greek and Latin Patrologia Latina","url":"https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/patrologia_latina-dev/blob/master/data/tmp1351/tmp1351/tmp1351.tmp1351.opp-lat1.xml"}],"checks":{"work":"tmp1351.tmp1351.opp-lat1","status":"pass","blocking":[],"warnings":[],"stats":{"passages":3,"translated":3,"commentary_passages":3,"commentary_units":17,"english_words":339,"source_letters":1569,"commentary_kinds":6},"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor"},"work_notes":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The document is a formal renunciation of rights over the Church of St. Martin, issued by Alphanus, Bishop of Benevento. 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Readers cannot verify readings or assess scribal interventions.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"derived_work_notes":[{"kind":"coverage","severity":"info","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. That is not proof that none exists — translations in dissertations, recent books and other modern languages are easily missed."},{"kind":"limit","severity":"caution","text":"The English is a machine draft produced passage by passage from the transcribed Coptic; no human has verified it. The commentary is model-written and cites only keys the pipeline could resolve."},{"kind":"register","severity":"info","text":"Register: other in Latin; the English keeps the liturgical formulae and the vocatives rather than normalising them."},{"kind":"structure","severity":"info","text":"Passages: 3 narrative."},{"kind":"source","severity":"info","text":"Source edition: ogl-pl — Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License"}],"derived_structure":{"narrative":3},"term_index":[],"citations":{},"segments":[{"i":1,"ref":"p1","source":"SANCTI ALPHANI BENEVENTANI EPISCOPI, CHARTA RENUNTIATIONIS JURIUM ECCLESIAE S. MARTINI.\n\nin nomine Domini nostri Jesu Christi, ejusque sanctissimae Genitricis.\n\nTemporibng domini viri gloriosissimi Arichis summi ducis gentis Longobardorum, anno vigesimo quarto gloriosissimi ducatus, qui mense Martio, indictione quarta firmatus.","english":"In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and His most holy Mother.\n\nIn the time of the lord, the most glorious man Arichis, supreme duke of the Lombard people, in the twenty-fourth year of his most glorious duchy, which was confirmed in the month of March, in the fourth indiction.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Charta Renuntiationis Jurium Ecclesiae S. Martini","severity":"info","text":"The title identifies the document as a formal charter of renunciation, a legal instrument by which a bishop relinquishes claims or rights held by his see over a church.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"dating","kind":"chronology","basis":"text","lemma":"Temporibng domini viri gloriosissimi Arichis summi ducis gentis Longobardorum, anno vigesimo quarto gloriosissimi ducatus, qui mense Martio, indictione quarta f","severity":"info","text":"The dating formula places the charter in the 24th year of Duke Arichis II of Benevento (758–787), corresponding to 781/782, with the fourth indiction and the month of March confirming a spring date.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Arichis summi ducis gentis Longobardorum","severity":"info","text":"Arichis II was the Lombard duke of Benevento who, after the fall of the Lombard kingdom in 774, styled himself 'princeps' and governed a virtually independent duchy. His reign saw extensive ecclesiastical patronage.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"Temporibng","severity":"caution","text":"The form 'Temporibng' is a scribal error or abbreviation for 'Temporibus' (times). The text is otherwise formulaic for Lombard legal documents.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"in nomine Domini nostri Jesu Christi, ejusque sanctissimae Genitricis","severity":"info","text":"The invocation of Christ and the Virgin Mary is typical of Beneventan charters of the late 8th century, reflecting the strong Marian devotion in the Lombard south.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The precise rights being renounced are not specified in this opening passage; the charter's body would clarify the property or jurisdictional claims.","The reading 'Temporibng' is ambiguous: it may be a scribal contraction or a copying error for 'Temporibus'."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":2,"ref":"p2","source":"Nos dominus vir beatissimus hujus sanctissime sedis Beneventanae Alphanus reverendissimus episcopus, ob solutionem ecclesiae sancti Martini, tibi Trasemundo Schuldachis, qualiter tu nominate Trasimunde ipsam saepius dictam ecclesiam a novo fundamine, usque ad culmen consecrationis perducere visus es in tuo proprio territorio, loco qui vocatur Monsbonionis, qui esse videtur in Buente loco, canonica ratione absolvimus eam praedictam ecclesiam, ut non presbyter, diaconus, vel subdiaconus habeat potestatem eam dandam in plebutea parte e se voluerunt, aut subtrahendam, per quemlibet titulum, excepto presbytero, quem tu, nominate Trasimunde, vel tui haeredes per tempora, ordinare solveris, ipsa jam facta ecclesia, nobis, vel nostris successoribus in nominatam sanctam sedem nostram pervenit consecrandus, secundum canonicam sanctionem: nani aliam nullam rerum babeat potestatem dandi ea, neque a me Alphano Domini gratia episcopo, neque in posteris meis nunquam habeas aliquando aliquam requisitionem, aut reprehensionem de hac mea absolutione; sed ex nunc, et usque in perpetuis temporibus, qualiter superius legitur, in ipsa ratione permanere valent ipsa nominata ecclesia. Quod monumentum absolutionis tibi Nicolao notario nostro, ut scriberes praecipimus; et ut robur habeat, effigiem sanctae crucis affiximus. Actum Beneventi in episcopio, mense et indictione nomiuata feliciter.","english":"We, the lord, the most blessed man Alphanus, the most reverend bishop of this most holy see of Benevento, for the settlement of the church of Saint Martin, to you, Trasemundus Schuldachis, inasmuch as you, named Trasimundus, are seen to have brought that often-mentioned church from its new foundation up to the summit of consecration in your own territory, in the place which is called Monsbonionis, which appears to be in the locality of Buente, by canonical reason we absolve that aforesaid church, so that no presbyter, deacon, or subdeacon shall have the power to give it over to a plebeian part, if they should wish, or to subtract it under any title whatsoever, except for the presbyter whom you, named Trasimundus, or your heirs over time, shall have arranged to ordain; that already completed church comes to us or to our successors in our named see to be consecrated, according to canonical sanction. For no other person shall have any power of giving anything from it, neither by me, Alphanus, bishop by the grace of God, nor shall you ever have at any time any demand or reproach from my successors concerning this absolution of mine; but from now and for perpetual times, as is read above, that named church shall remain valid in that same arrangement. We commanded this document of absolution to be written by you, Nicolaus, our notary; and that it may have force, we have affixed the image of the holy cross. Done at Benevento in the episcopium, in the named month and indiction, happily.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"absolvimus","severity":"info","text":"Here 'absolvimus' means 'release' or 'discharge' from obligations, not from sin; the bishop frees the church from certain jurisdictional claims.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"plebutea parte","severity":"caution","text":"'Plebutea parte' is obscure; likely a corruption of 'plebeia parte' (the plebeian part), meaning the lay or common congregation, as opposed to clerical control.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"background","lemma":"Monsbonionis","severity":"info","text":"Monsbonionis (Monte Bove?) and Buente are unidentified localities in the Lombard Duchy of Benevento; they likely refer to a rural estate granted for the church's foundation.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The document follows a standard Lombard charter form: invocation, dating clause, narratio (Trasimundus built the church), dispositio (absolution and restrictions), corroboratio (notary and cross), and eschatocol.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"dating","kind":"chronology","basis":"text","lemma":"quarta indictione","severity":"info","text":"The fourth indiction and the 24th year of Duke Arichis (758–787) date this charter to circa 782–783, consistent with Alphanus's episcopate (c. 774–787).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"This charter survives in the OGL-PL collection, reflecting early medieval Italian episcopal practice of granting immunity to proprietary churches while retaining consecration rights.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'plebutea parte' is corrupt; the intended reading may be 'plebeia parte' (lay congregation) or 'plebana parte' (parish portion).","The identity of 'Nicolaus notarius' is uncertain; he may be a local Beneventan scribe otherwise unattested."],"confidence":"medium","notes":[]},{"i":3,"ref":"p3","source":"Ego Majorachi presbyt. me testem scripsi, astantibus sacerdotibus nostris, vel cuncto clero,\n\nEgo Aripaldus scribere me jussi et testes ascribere.","english":"I, Majorachi, presbyter, wrote myself as a witness, with our priests and the entire clergy standing by.\n\nI, Aripaldus, ordered myself to write and to inscribe the witnesses.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Ego Majorachi presbyt. me testem scripsi","severity":"info","text":"This clause marks a shift from the bishop's declaration to the subscription of witnesses, a standard feature in medieval charters to authenticate the document.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"testem scripsi","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'testem scripsi' (I wrote myself as a witness) indicates that Majorachi personally inscribed his name as a witness, a common autograph practice in early medieval legal documents.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"astantibus sacerdotibus nostris, vel cuncto clero","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'astantibus sacerdotibus nostris, vel cuncto clero' (with our priests and the entire clergy standing by) emphasizes the public and clerical context of the charter's execution, lending it legal and ecclesiastical authority.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Ego Aripaldus scribere me jussi et testes ascribere","severity":"info","text":"Aripaldus's subscription uses a different formula ('ordered myself to write'), suggesting he may have been a lay notary or scribe acting under instruction, contrasting with Majorachi's personal witness statement.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"scribere me jussi","severity":"caution","text":"The phrase 'scribere me jussi' (ordered myself to write) is ambiguous: it could mean Aripaldus dictated his name to another scribe, or that he wrote it himself by his own order. The reading here follows the latter, but the syntax is unusual.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Majorachi","severity":"info","text":"The name 'Majorachi' is likely a Latinized form of a Lombard or Germanic name, reflecting the mixed cultural context of Benevento in the 9th–10th centuries, where Lombard and Latin traditions coexisted.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The identity of 'Aripaldus' is unclear: he may be a lay notary, a cleric, or a local magnate; the phrase 'scribere me jussi' leaves open whether he wrote personally or dictated.","The relationship between the two subscriptions (Majorachi and Aripaldus) is not explicit; they may be sequential or simultaneous acts of authentication."],"confidence":"medium","notes":[]}]}