Letter 9173: I owe you an explanation.

From your own mind, as I suspect, you weigh how great a sweetness there is in our mind toward your Greatness, since, as it is written, the soul loves the one who loves it. Therefore, because you love me, you know that you too are loved by me. And as for the fact that earlier, when Castorius our notary came to you there, I wrote you very little, do not believe it to have been from sloth, but from sickness and from being occupied with business. For we both long to see you when you are present and desire to converse, at least by letter, with you when you are absent. Wherefore we also wish that blessed Peter, prince of the apostles, may bring you happily to his thresholds, so that in the grace of almighty God [we may] enjoy your presence [...]

In noetra mcDtc vcstra magnitudo quantao sit dulcodinis, cx vostra, ut suspicor, mente pensatis, quia, sicut* scriptum cst, amat anima amantcm se. Ideo'' quod me diligitis°, vos quoque a me'' diligi scitis*. Et^ quod prius illuc' Castorio cartulario nostro venicnto * vobis'' minimo scripsi', non torporia fuisso croditc, sed acgritudinis ct occupationia. Mam nos ot pracsontcs^ vos vidcro capimus et abscntibua colloqoi IX, 172 m titido: ranormitanu VI et indie. €1.3; Puiormu Ci.2; I'*n C3 in iifttfo. ■) «bta codd. n. ^) ax nioDaiilerium eorr. CS. «) Mnoirui 02. ■") celbeiUM eodd.n., td corr. C2 m.2. •) deportatuiel C2. 3. ^ ex ipgi corr. C3. e) oni. est Cl. Meuie «(.-■ ita Bl. g*2.3. Vat. A. B. E (ed. M). IX, 173 oni.Q* I. — /n tilulo: erogi R J. q*2.3. ^) quU ut add. po4l. iitiut Cl; qaia ut Hicul C3.3. <•) ID eo p* 2. 3. B) diligiB Al. p*a.5. <■) oni. a me (7 f. •) in ■ciatiB corr. C 2 m. 3. f) oni. et C. ■) illud Cl. >■) Dobis eoTT. in vobia C 1. ') ncripumue C. <■) preeeutis Rl; praeseDti f'2.3. IX, 172: cf. ep. praeced. — De FatiHno cf. ep. III, 65 n. IV, 43 n. 1) Idem, ut pidetur, mona- gterium eiusque abbaa commemomtur m ep. X, 6. — Cf. DiurHi f. 14: dc diinda beneficin uuicti Angali. IX, 173. Eidem DomneOo mieaa eat ep. IX, 340, ex gua de eiue munere, quo tum iterum ftmge- batuf, aUqua eomperimm. Cf G. I. XII, 37, 16 e( libnm ■mmdi UntemuA. ttc. p. 173. 1) De Ca- storw cf. ep. V, 34 n. IX, 151 n.l. Reg. OnEa. U. 22 yGoogle GEEGOBII 1. BEGISTBI saltem' per epistolam desideramuB. Unde et opt&muB, ut vob<° beatus Fetrua apoeto- lonim priDceps ad sua limiua fcliciter porducat", quatenua in omnipoteDtis Dei gratia perfrui*' praeHcnKa vestra i