This collection of tenth-century documents from Montecassino Abbey includes records drafted during the governance of Abbot Aligerno (949-986), who, having brought the entire monastic community back to Montecassino, immediately undertook the reconstruction of the Cassino property. The documents in this collection provide evidence of property disputes that occurred in the territory of the ancient Lombard principality of Benevento. These documents are known as placiti (judicial proceedings or court decisions). Three of them are proper judicial records: the Iudicatum of March 960, the one from March 963, and another from October 963; while the document dated July 26, 963, is a memorandum (Memoratorium). The first placito was written in Capua, the second in Sessa Aurunca, and the other two in Teano. The legal procedures shown in these documents are primarily Roman in character, with slight Byzantine influences and Lombard additions. The sworn testimonies are recorded in the common vernacular language of the Campania region.
We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Montecassino Documents (Collection)": Documenti Cassinesi del Secolo X con Formule in Volgare facsimile edition, published by Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1960
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