Thread by @Pannocchio13

For today's #palaeography challenge, we have a charter granted by emperor #FrederickII to abbot Benedict of #SantApollinareinClasse. The charter is written in an elegant Gothic script of the early XIII c.

Transcription of the first couple of lines follows in the next tweets.

FRIDERICUS Dei gratia Romanorum Imperator semper augustus, Ierusalem et Sicilie Rex, Comiti Romaniole, Ravennatibus, Vicecomiti Arymine, Aryminensibus civibus, hominibus Lonzanensibus, Cesenatibus, Forolivensibus, Cerviensibus, Sarsanensibus, et Universis civitatibus et civitatum

rectoribus, atque comitatibus civitatum et locorum, et aliis quibuscumque presentes litteras inspecturis fidelibus suis gratiam suam et bonam voluntatem. Notum facimus universiotati vestre quod Benedictus venerabilis abbas sancti Apollinaris in Classe fidelis noster quedam

scripta Imperatoris Friderici quondam avi nostri, et Henrici Imperatoris patris nostri recolende memorie, nostre celsitudini presentavit, humiliter supplicans et devote, ut quecumque continebatur in eis observari facere in perpetuum dignaremur...

Like most charters from Italian churches and monasteries, since the Italian unification in 1861, this charter has been preserved in the local 'Archivio di Stato' (in Ravenna, for this instance).

Here is the digitized picture of the whole charter: archiviodigitale.icar.beniculturali.it/it/185/ricerca…

Let us continue our #palaeography challenge with an almost contemporary charter by Saint Louis dated 1248 (Frederick II's charter was dated 1226).The Gothic script is very similar to the one used in Frederick's charter, but note the elongated script used for the 'invocatio'. Also

note the gorgeous monogram 'LUDOVICUS' at the end of the charter that serves as the king's signature. The charter clarifies and establishes with accuracy the king's 'droit de gîte' in the diocese of Beauvais, Normandy.
Transcription of the first few lines in the following tweets

IN NOMINE SANCTE AND INDIVIDUE TRINITATIS AMEN. Ludovicus Dei gratia Francorum Rex. Notum facimus quod cum diceremus nos habere tot gista quot volebamus super episcopum Beluacensem seu nos debere procurari ab eodem episcopo quocienscumque apud Beluacum venientes, Nos devotionem

quam idem episcopus ad nos habebat attendentes eidem et ecclesie Beluacensi in posterum pro periculis et expensis que vel quas Episcopus qui pro tempore erit incurrere posset precavere volentes, volumus et concedimus ut qui pro tempore fuerit Episcopus Beluacensis nobis et

successoribus nostris singulis annis pro dictis gistis in centum libras parisienses in Ascensione Domini Parisius persolvendis tantummodo teneatur, sive veniamus apud Beluacum sive non veniamus, et in uno gisto de centum libris parisiensibus semel in anno si ad civitatem...