Letter 87: PELAGIUS IOHANNI to the bishop LARINAT/.

Pelagius to John, Bishop of Larinum. We have gladly seen fit to grant the directives of our authority, decreeing and, by our present authority, charging your Beloved [the bishop, addressed by his honorific] that, concerning the monasteries established in Lucania and Samnium and their possessions, with every power whatsoever wholly removed-whether that of your associates or that of any layman, and with no license at all permitted even to your own Charity [your reverence] insofar as it pertains to private gain-you are to administer and dispose, by priestly care alone, those things which will be of benefit for the governance of the aforesaid monasteries and of their possessions for their advantage; so that, claiming nothing among these for private gain, as we have said before, you may fittingly carry out only those things which you perceive to be necessary to the monasteries themselves and to their advantage, both in the ordering of the communities and in the cultivation of the possessions belonging to them, and you may not neglect to accomplish them with diligent zeal-with the license of conducting or disposing anything forbidden to all and any laymen whatsoever, whether in the aforesaid monasteries or in their possessions.

PELAGIUS IOHANNI EPISCOPO LARINAT/. Nostrae auctoritatis praeceptionibus libenter duximus annuendum, decer¬ nentes et praesenti dilectioni tuae auctoritate mandantes, ut de monasteriis in Lucania et Samnio constitutis possessionibusque eorum, omni penitus siue consortium tuorum siue cuiuslibet laici potestate submota, sed nec tuae quoque caritati, quantum ad pri- uata compendia pertinet, aliqua permissa licentia, sola sacerdo- tali[s] cura pro utilitatibus praedictorum monasteriorum guber¬ nandis possessionibusque eorum, quae sunt profutura disponas; ut nihil in his, sicut praefati sumus, priuatis compendiis uendi- cando, ea tantum quae ipsis monasteriis utilitatibusque eorum, tam in dispositione congregationum quam in cultura possessionum ad ea pertinentium, necessaria esse perspexeris, competenter exer¬ ceas, et diligenti studio peragere non praetermittas, omni quibus- libet laicis, siue in praefatis monasteriis, siue in possessionibus eorum, quicquam gerendi uel disponendi interdicta licentia. karitati Co Cg 8 -tali] emend. coni.i -talis C, Baluze 9 possessionibus C« eorum] superscr. Cj 12 disposicione Ci Cg, dispoe Cg Cx 13 conpetenter C4 15 -libet] om, Cg Cg C4. gelagius Cg larinati] scripsi: latinato C 3-4 ut de monasteriis] om. Cg Cg C4 Tit. Iohanni episcopo Larinati: S. Baeuze, 0 . c., p. 2, et Dom J. Chapman, 0 . c., p. 150, n. 2, evim esse putant Laurinensem illum praesu¬ lem, cuius mentionem facit S. Gregorius Magnus, Reg.^ II, 38 (P. Ewaed, MGH., Epp., t. I, p. 139,1. 14). Hoc autem improbabile valde mihi videtur. Larinati pro larinato codd. esse scribendum, suadet tum ipsa adiectivi forma: Larinas (cf. De ViT, Onomasticon ..., t. IV, p. 46-47; Phieipp, Larinum, in Pauly-Wissowa, t. XII, c. 839-840), tum lectio Coli. Britanni¬ cae, quae in S. Geeasii I, Ep. 2 coli. (J-K. 630; S. Loewenfeed, 0 . c., р. 1,2) fert etiam Larinati. Quoad Larinatem sedem (in oppido Apuliae) in Frentaiiis (Larino vecchio) cf. F. Lanzoni, 0 . c., p. 277; G. Aueetta, La¬ rino, in Enc. CattoL, t. VII, c. 919. Ad hanc et alias omnes sedes Italiae quod adtinet, consuli etiam potest H. LECEERCQ, Italie, DACL., t. VII, 2, с. 1653-1732; Listes ipiscopales, ihid., t. IX. 1, c. 1455-1536, sed ibi, exceptis paucis inscriptionibus et quibusdam indicationibus librorum consulendo¬ rum, nil aliud fere invenies quam compendium, nihil adferens novi, earum quae conscripserat F. Lanzoni in opere saepe laudato. Lucania et Samnio: Prima harum provinciarum ad regionem tertiam, altera ad II regionem Romanam pertinebat. Cf. J. Jung; 0 . c., p. 7; 18-20; 22; 46; F. Lanzoni, 0 . c., p. 319-320; 377-378; Honigmann, Lucania, in Pauly-Wissowa, t. XIII, c. 1541-1552; Philipp, Samnites, Sam¬ nium, ihid., t. I^, c. 2138-2159; Ae. Forcellini ... I. Perin, Lexicon ..., t. VI, Onomasticon, p. 137; 587-588; C. de FrEdE, Lucania, in Enc. CattoL, t. VII, c. 1601-1605. PEI/AGII I PAPAE Melleo subdiacono in memoriam revocat Pelagius, se, pro relatione notariorum sedis Romanae, nondum persolvisse pecuniam patrimonii Ecclesiae sibi commissi. Quod tamen et in Ecclesiae et in suum commo¬ dum eum facere oportebat.