Vigilius letter

The Letter of Vigilius, parish archive Kaltern (South Tyrol)

The so-called Vigilius Letter is a medieval documentary record from South Tyrol .

The three-column text, written on parchment , is named after St. Vigilius , the patron saint of the Diocese of Trento , its alleged author and founder of some of the churches mentioned in him in the Überetsch and the Unterland , which at that time belonged to the Trento church district.

According to the findings of modern diplomacy, the letter of Vigilius is a conglomerate of documents and records of the consecration , endowment and borders of the baptistery in Kaltern . Although attributed to the bishop from around 400, the document is “a record, probably edited in the first half of the 11th century from older models, corresponding to the younger Northern Italian document type, about the furnishings of the church in Kaltern and its branches in Altenburg and Tramin ". The compilation was made on the initiative of Bishop Udalrich II of Trient (1022-1055) and is only available as a notarized copy from 1191 in a version that is kept in the parish archive of Kaltern.

Edition

Franz Huter (arrangement): Tyrolean document book . I. Abt .: The documents on the history of the German Etschland and the Vintschgau. Volume 1. Innsbruck: Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum 1937, p. 6ff., No. 13.

literature

Franz Huter: The so-called Vigilius Letter. A contribution to the history of the older documentary system of the bishops of Trento. In: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 50, 1936, pp. 35–72, doi: 10.7767 / miog.1936.50.12.35 .
Hannes Obermair : The law of the Tyrolean-Trientin 'Regio' between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages . In: Concilium Medii Aevi 9, 2006, pp. 141-158, DOI: 10.2364 / 1437905809107 .
Josef Riedmann : The Middle Ages. In: Josef Fontana , Peter W. Haider (Red.): History of the state of Tyrol. Volume 1, 2nd edition. Bozen-Innsbruck: Athesia-Tyrolia 1990, pp. 291-698. ISBN 88-7014-473-9 .

Individual evidence

↑ Franz Huter: The so-called Vigilius letter. A contribution to the history of the older documentary system of the bishops of Trento. In: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 50, 1936, pp. 35ff.
↑ Hannes Obermair: The right of the Tyrolean-Trientin 'Regio' between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages . In: Concilium Medii Aevi 9, 2006, p. 150.

[1] Franz Huter: The so-called Vigilius letter. A contribution to the history of the older documentary system of the bishops of Trento. In: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 50, 1936, pp. 35ff.

[2] Hannes Obermair: The right of the Tyrolean-Trientin 'Regio' between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages . In: Concilium Medii Aevi 9, 2006, p. 150.