Die älteren Urkunden des Domkapitels zu Aquileia und des Klosters Beligna (bis 1250)

This edition forms the fourth volume of the series "Vorarbeiten zu einem Urkundenbuch des Patriarchats Aquileia". It thus complements the existing editions of documents from Friulian churches up to the middle of the 13th century. Around half of the texts or document extracts contained here were previously completely unknown to researchers. Moreover, a number of texts have now been edited verbatim for the first time, and others are now available due to a significantly better textual basis than before, or they now appear with a corrected date. Several studies round off the text edition: a presentation of previous research on the cathedral chapter and the Beligna monastery that was later incorporated into it, as well as investigations into the inventories of the chapter archive (from the 16th to the 18th century) and into the history of this archive. In addition, there are special studies on the content and evaluation of some important documents and groups of documents, including the problem of historical truth in those documents that have been handed down exclusively in works of stylistic art, and also studies concerning those documents that have previously been wrongly attributed to the cathedral chapter or the Beligna monastery or to the period up to 1250. The notary signs from the period up to 1250 are shown, regardless of whether they have come down to us in the original or as more recent copies. Of course, not only the place and personal names appearing in the texts are indexed and identified, but the peculiarities of the legal phraseology of the Middle Ages are also listed.