Salzburg fraternization book

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The Salzburg Book of Fraternities ( Liber Confraternitatum Sancti Petri ), also called St. Peter's Book of Fraternities , was created in the last years of Bishop Virgil's life and contains names of people from 784 to the end of the 9th century; the subsequent younger fraternization book was started by Abbot Tito († 1025), who came from the monastery of St. Emmeram , and has names from the year 1004 to the middle of the 13th century (and later additions). A last part contains the traditional notes from the 8th to 13th centuries, i.e. H. a list of the donations of goods to the monastery of St. Peter.

The Salzburg fraternity book is the oldest in the world. The script is written in Carolingian minuscule , the oldest scribe being associated with the scriptorium of Saint-Denis . The fraternization book is still kept in St. Peter's Monastery today and has been included in the Austrian National Memory of the World Register since 2014 .

Older fraternity book

The content is divided into three sections for saints, living and dead. About 8000 individuals and monastic communities are named who stood in prayer fraternities with one another . The oldest Salzburg series of bishops and the oldest evidence of the genealogy of the Agilolfingers are also listed here. For example, information about Duke Tassilo II is only available here.

Younger fraternity book

This was started by the abbot Tito at the time of the separation of the episcopate and the abbey board and the accompanying separation of canons and monastic community. It differs optically from the older fraternization book as the names are given in colorful arcades, so-called canon arches (similar to the fraternization book from the St. Gallen monastery archive ).

literature

  • Karl Forstner: The fraternization book of St. Peter in Salzburg. Complete facsimile edition in the original format (= Codices selecti 51). Academic Printing and Publishing Establishment , Graz 1974. ISBN 3201009180 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Geuenich: "Fraternization Books". In: Südwestdeutsche Archivalienkunde. October 10, 2017, accessed July 10, 2019 .
  2. ^ "Handbook of Bavarian History: The old Bavaria, the tribal duchy up to the end of the 12th century". In: CH Beck. 1981, Retrieved July 10, 2019 .