Letter 13048: The monks of the island of Capri have allowed their discipline to deteriorate to a state that is an embarrassment to...
Ubi canonicam districtionem culparum contra se qualitas excitat, postponere ^ quae
corrigenda sunt non debemus, ne dissimulatione vires dare*" pravis actibus, quos falcc^
nos disciplinae resecare convenit, videamur. Quia igitur peryenit ad nos monachos
monasterii, quod in Capria^ insula, quae iuxta Maiorica® item' insula, est positum^S
ita perverse^ agere ac vitam suam diversis facinoribus summisisse, ut non omnipotenti
Deo, sed .antiquo se hosti, quod cum gemitu dicimus, ostendant potius militare,
experientia tua praesenti auctoritate commonita ad^ praedictum monasterium accedere
*>) monasteria R2; mon^l. °) conseusus re Rl. add. se q*J,q3. «) ei Rl. ') corr.
in lanuario Rl; lanuari R2. 8) omni gS. privata Q*1.2, sed corr. in probata q*2; pravata q3.
^) ita ec2(2.;j dixerit q*3 et ex iusserit corr, q*2; iusserit, mprascr, vel dixerit q3: iuRRerit R1.q1.q*1.
XIII, 48. ») preponere Rl, »>) daret Ql,Q*l, sed corr, q1, ^) ex falces corr, Rl, Capri
XIII, 48, De lohanne eiusque Uinere cf. ep. praeced. 1) De Isla Cabrera cufitwr: cf. Gania,
Kvrchengeffchichte von Spamen II, /, 188, II, 2, 33 s., qui recte cotUendit, e.v hac ep. effici non posse Imh
imulas tunc ad Hiapaniam pertinuisse, qutppe qnae ttmparilms Vandalarnm a Vandtdis et Vmulalis
derictis a Sardinia prorincia penderent.
et vitam moresque illic conversantium suptili studeat^ investigatione perquirere et ita,
quaeque resecatione digna reppererit, sicut canonicus ordo desiderat^, congrua ultione
corrigere atque eos, quae™ observare debeant, studeat° informare**, quatenus emenda-
tionisP tuae modus et istos ad viam rectae conversationis reducere et te apud nos
nullo modo valeat accusare culpabilem.
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