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Apennines (Apennis, Adpennes) (APPENNES (APENNIS, ADPENNES))
APENNINES (Apennis, Adpennes). - This designation is customarily used to distinguish a particular type of document that feudal authorities,… -
Archive (ARCHIVIO)
ARCHIVE. - Etymologically it derives from ἀρχεῖον, the magistrate's palace where the records of the magistracy were kept. Among the Greeks,… -
Archivistics (ARCHIVISTICA)
ARCHIVISTICS. - It is the discipline that studies the ordering, administration, and preservation of archives, while at the same time… -
Bene Valete
BENE VALETE. - A salutation formula derived from Roman epistolary usage (Cicero uses in his letters: Vale, Valete), which acquired a… -
Bolla
BOLLA. - Properly denotes the lead seal appended to documents and, by extension, the document itself. I. SEAL. - The use of the lead seal… -
Bullatores
BULLATORES. - In the pontifical chancery they affixed the lead seal to documents (bulla); > (photograph by the Direzione Generale Musei e… -
Cartulary (CARTOLARIO (CARTOLARIO))
CARTULARY. - The name c. (chartularium, instrumentarium, liber memorialis, pancharta, codex diplomaticus) designates the volumes in which,… -
Chancellery (CANCELLERIA)
CHANCELLERY. - It is the office in which "the acts of public authorities are drawn up" (C. Paoli) and in which the operations connected… -
Chancellor (CANCELLIERE)
CHANCELLOR. - A noun designating, in medieval diplomatics, the head of the chancery. It should be noted that it was the office that… -
Charta Pagensis
CHARTA PAGENSIS. - For a long time the term was equivalent to today's "private document." In the formulary of Marculf (7th century), 52… -
Chirograph (From Gr. χείρ = hand, and γράφειν = to write) (CHIROGRAFO (DAL GR. ΧΕΊΡ = MANO, E ΓΡΆΦΕΙΝ = SCRIVERE))
CHIROGRAPH (From Gr. χείρ = hand, and γράφειν = to write). - It is generally the document written by the hand of the very person who issues… -
Chrismon
CHRISMON. - In diplomatics this name designates the monogrammatic formula of invocation to the Divinity that opens the protocol of a… -
Diplomatics (DIPLOMATICA)
DIPLOMATICS. - Diplomatics (from diploma, understood in the broad sense of "document") is the science that studies public and private acts… -
Document (DOCUMENTO)
DOCUMENT. - From the etymological meaning of "teaching" (from doceo, "that from which one learns, obtains proof"), the word d. came to… -
Fumagalli, Angelo
FUMAGALLI, ANGELO. - Cistercian historian, abbot of S. Ambrogio in Milan, born there on 28 April 1728 and died in the same city on 22 March… -
Giry, Jean-Marie-Joseph-Arthur
GIRY, JEAN-MARIE-JOSEPH-ARTHUR. - French historian and diplomatist, b. at Trévoux (Ain) on 29 Feb. 1848, d. at Paris on 13 Nov. 1899. After… -
Grossatores
GROSSATORES. - From the terms "grossa", luculentior scriptura, and "grossare", in mundum redigere seu luculentius nitidiusque scribere, the… -
Imbreviatura
IMBREVIATURA. - In medieval terminology, it is the draft act drawn up by the rogatory notary on a separate sheet and sometimes also on the… -
Katterbach, Bruno
KATTERBACH, BRUNO. - Franciscan, paleographer, b. at Düsseldorf on 16 Sept. 1883, d. at Rome on 29 Dec. 1931. He completed his theological… -
Kehr, Paul Fridolin
KEHR, PAUL FRIDOLIN. - Born on 28 Dec. 1860 at Waltershausen near Gotha (Thuringia) into a Protestant family, died on 9 Nov. 1944 at… -
Letters Patent (LETTERE PATENTI)
LETTERS PATENT. - This name designates, in contrast to the "litterae clausae", those public documents drawn up in a form different from and… -
Liber Diurnus of the Roman Pontiffs (LIBER DIURNUS ROMANORUM PONTIFICUM)
LIBER DIURNUS OF THE ROMAN PONTIFFS. - This title (not original) designates a collection of formulas of ecclesiastical documents, for the… -
Mabillon, Jean
MABILLON, JEAN. - Benedictine of the Congregation of St. Maur (v. MAURINI), b. at St-Pierremont (Reims) on 23 Nov. 1632, d. at… -
Monogram (MONOGRAMMA)
MONOGRAM. - The monogram results from the interweaving of all the letters making up a word, or only of the initials or the consonants that… -
Motu Proprio
« MOTU PROPRIO ». - It generally denotes the document relating to a concession made by a sovereign on his own initiative, whether real or… -
Notary (NOTAIO)
NOTARY. - In the modern conception, the notary is a free professional who has the status of a public official with the power to receive,… -
Notitia
NOTITIA. — According to the terminology introduced by Brunner, it is the document of proof relating to a legal transaction already complete… -
Numismatics (NUMISMATICA)
NUMISMATICS. - Numismatics is the science that studies coinage in all its constituent elements and in the evolution they have undergone… -
Pancharta
PANCHARTA. - Name by which, in the medieval period, are designated the privileges issued by sovereign authority to confirm to churches or… -
Papal Registers (REGISTRI PONTIFICI)
PAPAL REGISTERS. - By "r." are meant the books in which the chancery had copies made, for the record, of the letters it dispatched. The… -
Register (REGESTO)
REGISTER. - The word regestum (from re-gero) was used mainly, from the end of the classical age almost to our own days, as equivalent to… -
Sfragistics (SFRAGISTICA)
SFRAGISTICS. — From the Greek σφραγίς, or "sigillography" (Latin sigillum, diminutive of signum), it is the discipline that studies seals… -
Supplication (SUPPLICA)
SUPPLICATION. - As a diplomatic term, it is the petition addressed to the sovereign in order to obtain a gracious concession. Even the… -
Vidimus
VIDIMUS. - Formula for giving probative value to copies of documents. Among the methods used in the Middle Ages to give probative value to…