Letter 10030
Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)→Unknown|gregory great
From: Gregory the Great, Pope, in Rome
To: Castorius, notary
Date: ~600 AD
Context: Gregory again instructs Castorius about the property that was reportedly granted to a monastery.
Gregory to Castorius, notary.
This is my second letter to you about the property that is claimed to have been granted to the monastery. My instruction remains the same as before: investigate honestly and then do what justice requires.
I understand there may be competing claims or ambiguities in the documentation. Work through them carefully. The question to keep at the center is not who has the better political position or the more powerful patron, but what the facts actually are and what justice actually requires.
Do what is right. Then report to me.
Gregory
AD CASTORIUM NOTARIUM.
Iterum monet ut de pos8essione que monas(erio con-
ces:a dicebatur quod justum est ſaciat.
Gregorius Castorio notario.
Experientie tuz in prasenti nos recolis prece-
pisse ut de possessione que monasterio $anctorum
Marci, Marcellini et Feliculzx, quod Ravennz situm
es, Jargilalis litulo dicitur esse concessa, quia cau-
Vatic. In vet. Ed legitur, an esse compositum potuis-
get, jam contra, etc. In rgcent., an esse compositum
8ciri potuisset ; jam, elc., in utraque lectione Sensus
ſrusira queritur. Hoc loco idem est compositum ac
fetum.
Hist., c. 19, narrat eos Ntalie partem pervasisse.
© In recent. $ic claudilur epistola, Datum mense
Pro qua re hac te iterum nostra przxceptione qduxi-
mus commonendum, ut in re ipsa vigilans debeas
esse atque Sollicitus. Et si maniſesle .donatam esse
cognoveris, et nihil est quod a partibus nostre ob-
jici possit Eeclesize, impelimentum aliquod mona- :
sterio ad tenendum ips2m possesSionem non ſacias.
Si vero quia, prout diximus, causa bene libi est co-
gnita, habes quod juste possit pro Ecclesie partibus
allegari, electorum te cum parte allera necesse est
Subire judicium, ut et veritas cognosci,. et quod #-
quitatis ordo suaserit, valeat definiri,
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From: Gregory the Great, Pope, in Rome
To: Castorius, notary
Date: ~600 AD
Context: Gregory again instructs Castorius about the property that was reportedly granted to a monastery.
Gregory to Castorius, notary.
This is my second letter to you about the property that is claimed to have been granted to the monastery. My instruction remains the same as before: investigate honestly and then do what justice requires.
I understand there may be competing claims or ambiguities in the documentation. Work through them carefully. The question to keep at the center is not who has the better political position or the more powerful patron, but what the facts actually are and what justice actually requires.
Do what is right. Then report to me.
Gregory
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.