Letter 10014: The books and furnishings belonging to the monastery of the abbot Fuscus have been improperly taken or withheld.
To Fantinus the Defensor.
That he should cause the codices and veils of his monastery to be restored to Abbot Fuscus.
Gregory to Fantinus, Defensor of Naples.
Fuscus, abbot of the monastery of the holy Archangel which is called Macharis, and of the holy Maximus, Erasmus, and Julian, has asserted that Constantius, presbyter of his cell, on account of the condition of the time, migrated into Sicily, and carried off with him at the same time the codices and veils of his monastery. And since he states that this man is now deceased, and recounts that the things which belonged to his cell ought to be restored to him, let your Experience [i.e., your Discernment, the official addressed] take care to learn the truth; and if it is so, let it without any delay cause all the things which belong to that monastery to be restored. For it is against reason that what was taken from the monastery on account of the condition of the time, as has been said, should by his right be kept apart from it. Therefore let your Experience so act that, having learned the truth, it by no means allow the aforesaid abbot there, or whomever he shall have sent in his stead, to endure delay in vain.
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Latin / Greek Original
AD FANTINUM DEFENSOREM.
Fusco abbati, monaslerii $sui Codices et vela reslitui
faciat,
Gregorius Fantino deſensori Neapolitano.
Fuscus, abbas * monas!lerii sancti Archangeli quod
Macharis dicitur, atque sanctorum Maximi, Era>mi,
et Julianz, asSeruit Constantium cell:e suze presby-
terum ob temporis qualitatem $e in Siciliam trans-
migrasse, el Codices monaslerii $sui alque vela secuin
pariter deportasse. Quem quoniam deſunctum per-
hibet, el ca quzya cell: $uz esse commemorat $libi
posLulat debere restitui , expericntia tua verilalem
curet addiscere; et $i ita est, LYOQSL omnia quiz
monasterii ipsius Sunt sine aliqua faciat dilations
re$tilui. Nam contra rationem est ut quod de mona-
$terio pro lemporis, sicut dictum e-t, qualitate sub-
latum est, ab cjus debeat jure separari. lta ergo
experientia tua agat, ul veritatem addiscers, pra-
dictum illic abbatem, vel quem vice $ud transmisecrit,
dilationem ſrustra sustinere minime patiatur,
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern gregory great retranslated v1.
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