Abbreviator

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Abbreviators ( Latin ) were the most important officials of the papal chancellery since the late Middle Ages. They were mainly responsible for drafting the papal bulls since 1350 . In addition, they mostly handled simple judicial matters independently. They are mentioned for the first time in a bull of Benedict XII. from the first half of the 14th century.

Poggio Bracciolini , who came to the Roman Curia in 1403, worked temporarily as an Abbreviator. The Abbreviatorenkolleg founded by Pius II and revived by Sixtus IV was dissolved by Pope Pius X in 1908 and the tasks assigned to the Apostolic Protonotaries .

literature

  • Brigide Schwarz : The organization of curial writers' colleges from their creation to the middle of the 15th century . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-484-80057-7 , ( Library of the German Historical Institute in Rome 37), (At the same time: Berlin, Freie Univ., Phil. Diss. 1969).
  • Brigide Schwarz: Abbreviature officium est assistere vicecancellario in expeditione litterarum apostolicarum. On the development of the Abbreviatorenamt from the Great Schism to the establishment of the Vacabilist College of Abbreviators by Pius II. In: Erwin Gatz (Hrsg.): Römische Kurie. Church finances. Vatican Archives . Studies in honor of Hermann Hoberg . Part 2. Universitá Gregoriana Editrice, Rome 1979, ( Pontificia Universita Gregoriana. Miscellanea historiae pontificiae 46, ZDB -ID 11044-9 ), pp. 789–823.
  • Thomas Frenz: The foundation of the Abbreviatorenkolleg by Pius II and Sixtus IV . In: Miscellanea in onore di Monsignor Martino Giusti, prefetto dell'Archivio segreto vaticano . Volume 1. Archivio vaticano, Città del Vaticano 1978, ( Collectanea Archivi vaticani 5, ZDB -ID 844509-6 ), pp. 297-329.

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