Register of documents

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In diplomacy, a register of documents (or mostly just a register ) is a list of the documents expiring from a law firm , in contrast to the copy book . Since document registers of incoming items are also referred to as "registers", the terms "inlet register" or "outlet register" can be used to specify them.

Registers go back to the late ancient Roman administrative practice. Theodoric the Great's registers from the Variae of Cassiodor and the registers of letters ( Registrum epistolarum ) of Pope Gregory I have been handed down as literary text . Therefore, register keeping in the early and high medieval chancelleries is initially only customary at the Roman Curia . The oldest surviving original is the register of Gregory VII ( Reg. Vat. 2 ), the continuous series of original registers begins with Innocent III. in 1198 ( Reg. Vat. 3 ). In France, the keeping of registers only became common under Philipp August , in Sicily registers have been in use since Frederick II , probably based on the model of the Norman chancellery. Register-like records can also be found in Norman England. The first traces of registration under Henry VII are documented from the Holy Roman Empire . Two volumes of the Imperial Register of Ludwig of Bavaria are the oldest surviving originals. In the German territories, too, systematic register management did not establish itself until the 14th century.

literature

  • Otto Meyer, Renate Klauser (eds.): Clavis mediaevalis. Small dictionary of medieval research . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1962, pp. 207-208.