Letter 1095: For the celebration of the dedication of the church, you are to provide the following for distribution to the poor:...
AD PETRUM SUBDIACONUM.
Quid ad celebrandam dedicationem dare debeat ad
erogandum pauperibus.
Gregorius Petro $ubdiacono.
Festivitatibussanctorum desiderabiliter i insistentes,
EPISTOLARUM LIB, I. — INDICT. IS. — EPIST. LIX.
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Fralernitalis tuz edochi sumvs epis(9la, ig persona
Ocleatini de electione episcopatus 549 3liquos con-
£ensisSC, quem quoniam nos non concedimus, in eju$
non debent immorari persona. Sed habilatoribus
cjusdem civitalis edicito, ut $i in eadem Ecclesia di-
gnum ad hoc opus invencriat , in ipsius cuucti
electionem declinent. Alioquin priesentium libi
porlitor personam, de qua ei diximus, indicabit,
in cujus debeat fieri electione deerelum. Yog
elenim in ejusdem visidationem Ecclesiiz estole
Solertes aique $olliciti, ut et res <jus illibale $er-
ventur, et utilitates yobis disponentibus more $olito
- peragantur.
B
prxsen:is preceptionis nostra paginam ad experien-
liam tuam necesse duximus dirigendam, indicantes
ei or..lorium beatz Mariz, quod nuper in cella fra-
trum #dificatum est, ubi Marinianus abb1s praesse
dignoscitur, Augustio mense disposuisse nos, adju-
vante Demino, summopere dedicari, quatenus ca*-
pia nostra, operante Domino, debeant consummari.
Sed quia cellz ipsius teauilas exigit, debere nos in
ipsa diei feslivitate concurrere; propterea volumus
ut ad celebrandam dedicationem dare debeas ad
erogandum pauperibus, in auro solidos decem, vini
ampboras lriginta, * agnos ducentos, olei ” orcas
duas, berbices duodecim, gallinas centum, quz tuis
possint rationibus postmodum imputari. Statim ergo
fieri hec nulla more interjectione cunsLitue, ut vota
nostra, Deo auctore, celerem sortiantur eſſectuin.
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