Corveyer traditions

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The Corveyer Traditions (lat .: traditiones Corbeienses ) are a written compilation of early medieval land transfers to the Corvey monastery . Its first part from Carolingian times covers the years 822 to 875; a second part begins in 963/965 and extends to 1023. The transfers (lat .: traditiones ) have only been handed down in copies.

Emergence

With the founding of the Corvey Monastery, it began to receive donations (traditions), mostly in the form of land. The donations were made for the salvation of the giver's soul or as maintenance for the oblate . For evidence purposes, documents were issued about the donations or at least written notes were made. These records were collected in the monastery and eventually linked together. After the death of the first abbot Adalhard in 826, the essential content of the notes and documents (donor, gift, witness) was summarized in a register and continued until 1023. While the original records and the register have been lost, there is an incomplete copy of the register from 1479. This includes the register records from the years 822 to 875 and 963/965 to 1023. The central part is lost. A copy was made of the copy in 1664.

content

The Corveyer Traditionsbuch stood at the transition from older types of compilation of property registers such as copy books .

The first part goes back to the time before the first abbot and begins in 822. This goes back to individual documents. The scribes recorded the central information about the donation made to the monastery and the names of the witnesses. Example: “Aldward handed over two parts of Aldaric's legacy that he had in Empelde, Benstorf and Uffenleva (= Offleben ). Witnesses are: Eisulf, Wilmer, Halegdag, Heio. ”The notes made for the term of office of an abbot were summarized on a sheet of paper and subsequently entered in a book. In a similar way, the monasteries of Fulda and Lorsch assured themselves of their property rights. The first part ends in 875.

A second part begins in 963 or 965. Now the donations and other acquisitions were entered continuously in the book itself. An example (in German translation from Latin ): "Count Bernhard has handed over two serf families for himself and his wife Hathali."

The entries do not contain any dates. It may be unclear in individual cases whether the register and the transcript correctly reflect the order of the individual donations. Overall, however, source-critical investigations have shown a great deal of agreement between the donations and the order in which they were reproduced.

The traditional book has thus found its form. It probably had a certain evidence of its own, since no witnesses were named.

The Corveyer traditions are an important source for the development of the monastic manor.

Editions

  • Johann Friedrich Falke (Ed.): Codex Traditionum Corbeiensium Notis Criticis Atque Historicis Ac Tabulis Geographicis Et Genealogicis Illustratus. Meisner, Leipzig and Wolfenbüttel 1752, digitized
  • Paul Wigand (Ed.): Traditiones Corbeienses . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1843, digitized .
  • Karl August Eckhardt (Ed.): Studia Corbeiensia. Scientia, Aalen 1970
  • Klemens Honselmann (Ed.): The old monk lists and the traditions of Corvey (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia 10, = treatises on Corveyer historiography 6). Bonifatius, Paderborn 1982, ISBN 3-87088-326-X .

literature

  • Klemens Honselmann: A partial copy of the Corveyer traditions, Falkes print edition and its sources. In: Westphalia . Vol. 51, 1973, pp. 6-21 ( PDF ).
  • Karl Kroeschell: German legal history . Vol. 1: Until 1250 . Cologne u. a. 2008 ISBN 978-3-8252-2734-0 , p. 108.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Quoted from: Karl Kroeschell : right and wrong of the sassen. Legal history of Lower Saxony. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-525-36283-8 , p. 33.
  2. ↑ Quotation from Hagen Keller : The use of writing and symbolism in public communication. Aspects of socio-cultural change from the 5th to the 13th century. In: Early Medieval Studies . 37, 2003, ISSN  0071-9706 , pp. 1-24, here p. 13.

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