Letter 10014: The books and furnishings belonging to the monastery of the abbot Fuscus have been improperly taken or withheld.
Gregory to Fantinus, defender.
The books and furnishings belonging to the monastery of the abbot Fuscus have been improperly taken or withheld. You are to ensure their restoration.
A monastery's books are not merely property; they are the intellectual and spiritual heritage of the community. Their loss or withholding deprives the monks of tools essential to their life of prayer and study. Restore them promptly.
The furnishings similarly. Everything that belongs to the monastery is to be returned.
Gregory
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Latin / Greek Original
AD FANTINUM DEFENSOREM.
Fusco abbati, monaslerii $sui Codices et vela reslitui
faciat,
Gregorius Fantino deſensori Neapolitano.
Fuscus, abbas * monas!lerii sancti Archangeli quod
Macharis dicitur, atque sanctorum Maximi, Era>mi,
et Julianz, asSeruit Constantium cell:e suze presby-
terum ob temporis qualitatem $e in Siciliam trans-
migrasse, el Codices monaslerii $sui alque vela secuin
pariter deportasse. Quem quoniam deſunctum per-
hibet, el ca quzya cell: $uz esse commemorat $libi
posLulat debere restitui , expericntia tua verilalem
curet addiscere; et $i ita est, LYOQSL omnia quiz
monasterii ipsius Sunt sine aliqua faciat dilations
re$tilui. Nam contra rationem est ut quod de mona-
$terio pro lemporis, sicut dictum e-t, qualitate sub-
latum est, ab cjus debeat jure separari. lta ergo
experientia tua agat, ul veritatem addiscers, pra-
dictum illic abbatem, vel quem vice $ud transmisecrit,
dilationem ſrustra sustinere minime patiatur,
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