Codicleless
The codicle lot is a form of the Byzantine imperial charter, with which the award of court ranks was certified. The name is an example of the adoption of Latin terms ( codicillus ) in the Byzantine administrative language. Originals have only survived from the periphery of the Byzantine Empire. Therefore, they also combine the features of the prostagmata with those of the international letters , such as the address on the back.
An initiation is only occasionally at the beginning of the document, a brief proof leads over to the disposition . In the escha protocol , before 1204, the menologem , the legitimacy and an edition note with information on the place are given. Then changes can be observed in the eschat log: the edition note with the world year, but without a location, is followed by a corroboratio and the menologem.
The oldest surviving example from 1109 was intended for the Admiral Christodulos as a leading functionary of the Norman court in Palermo and included the appointment as protonobilissimus . The certificate is a purple-colored parchment , which is inscribed with gold ink in distinctive letters ( uncials ). The document is kept in the archive of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo.
This is from 1439 in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris under the signature Cod. Gr. Suppl. 821 kept Kodikellos, with John VIII. Palaeologus the Florentine Giacomo de Morelli the dignity of Hofpfalzgrafen with the authority to notaries to be appointed, and a coat of arms with the imperial right, double-headed eagle has to lead conferred. Although the place of exhibition is not mentioned in the text, it is still known: Florence , where the Byzantine emperor stayed for the Union Council . Below the Greek text and the menologem entered by the emperor himself there is a depiction of the coat of arms, traces of a wax seal and a Latin translation. It cannot be finally clarified whether the renunciation of purple parchment and gold ink is to be regarded as a development of the Byzantine chancellery, or whether it is due to the lack of resources during the imperial stay in Florence. The lack of a markup font is attributed to the use of local scribes.
literature
- Franz Dölger , Der Kodikellos des Christodulos in Palermo , in: Archiv für Urkundenforschung 11, 1929, 1–65 [= Byzantine Diplomatik, 1956, pp. 1–74]
- Franz Dölger - Johannes Karayannopulos , Byzantine doctrine of documents. First section. Die Kaiserurkunden , Munich 1968, pp. 109, 113–115.