Apprecatio
The Apprecatio in eschatocol of documents from the Middle Ages and the early modern period is a closing benediction. It usually just consists of the phrase: In Dei nomine feliciter, Amen. (Approximately: happily proceeding in God's name, Amen. ) The Apprecatio is the counterpart to the invocation of God in the Invocatio of the document. As a rule, it appears after the date in the certificate form , but it can also appear before it. It was particularly common in rulers' documents from the time of the Visigoths to the 14th century.
literature
- Klaus Herbers : Apprecatio. In: Peter Dinzelbacher (Hrsg.): Special dictionary of medieval studies (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 477). Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-520-47701-7 , p. 46.
- Alfred Gawlik : Apprecatio . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 810.
Web links
- Apprecatio . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
- Certificate form from Horst Enzensberger
Individual evidence
- ^ Harry Bresslau : Handbook of document teaching for Germany and Italy. Volume 1, 3rd edition, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1958, p. 48; Alessandro Pratesi : Genesi e forme del documento medievale . Rome 1979, p. 79
- ^ A b Klaus Herbers: Apprecatio. In: Peter Dinzelbacher (Hrsg.): Subject dictionary of medieval studies (= Kröner's pocket edition. Volume 477). Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-520-47701-7 , p. 46.
- ↑ Alessandro Pratesi : Genesi e forme del documento medievale . Rome 1979, p. 77