title: Addenda

author: Various Authors

source_edition: Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 13, coll. 417C–424A

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## MONITUM.

*Absoluta jam impressione communicatae mihi fuerunt annotationes aliquot et observationes studio atque humanitate viri clar. D. abbatis Terribilini, quas hoc loco adjiciendas operi censui, ne lectores earum beneficio fraudarem.*

*Existimat igitur vir ille eruditus primo loco, Damasum Romae ortum fuisse, utiturque ad hanc confirmandam opinionem rationibus iis, quas ego attigi. Observat etiam plures esse veteres scriptores a Saraziano, et [0417C] Coustantio memoratos, qui de eo pontifice agunt, illumque laudant: at ex eis ne unum quidem, qui eum Hispanum dixerit ante Catalogum Romanorum pontificum, quem sub Felice IV conscriptum aiunt, aut Anastasium, a quo Catalogum illum exscriptum putant sed utriusque hujus scriptoris haud magnam esse auctoritatem censet. Affert deinde recentiores ex inclyta gente illa auctores, ac eos ait nullo solido fundamento niti, praetereaque de loco digladiari inter se; postremo ex Breviario Eborensi anno 1548 impresso exscribit orationem, et lectiones Festo S. Damasi accommodatas. En vero hoc loco collecta omnia.*

## Ex Breviario Eborensis Ecclesiae in Lusitania typis impresso anno 1548, pag. 837.IN FESTO SANCTI DAMASI PAPAE ET CONFESSORIS.

[0417D]

*Oratio.* --Misericordiam tuam, Domine, quaesumus, nobis interveniente beato confessore tuo atque pontifice Damaso, clementer impende: nostrisque delictis ipsius propitiare suffragiis. P.

*Lect. I.* --Beatus Damasus, hujus nominis primus, natione Hispanus, patria Vimaranensis, ex Bracarensi provincia, patre Antonio, secundum Hieronymum in ecclesiastica Historia Liberio, secundum vero alios Felici II in pontificatu successit, anno Domini 369, sub Valentiniano et Valente imperatoribus. Sedit annis decem et octo, mensibus duobus, diebus decem. T.

*Lect. II.* --Ursicinus autem, vel, ut alii legunt, [0418B] Ursinus, Romanae Ecclesiae diaconus, Damasum sibi praelatum non ferens, in tantum furoris erupit, ut persuaso quodam imperito ac agresti episcopo, collecta turbulentorum et seditiosorum hominum manu, in basilica, quae Sicinini appellatur, episcopum se fieri extorqueret: legibus, ordine, et traditione perversis. Itaque cum non tantum suffragiis, sed etiam vi et armis res ageretur: multi utrimque ceciderunt. Ammianus Marcellinus ejus temporis historicus, refert centum triginta septem uno die, in basilica Sicinini [0418C] peremptorum reperta fuisse cadavera. Denique sacerdotum et populi consensu, Damasus confirmatus est: et Ursicinus ejectus ab Urbe, atque ad Neapolitanam Ecclesiam traductus. T.

*Lect. III.* --Damasus autem de adulterio per invidiam accusatus, facta synodo coram quadraginta quatuor episcopis se purgavit: a quibus innocens absolutus est, et accusatores ejus Concordius et Callixtus diaconi, damnati rejectique ab Ecclesia. Certe beatus Hieronymus, in epistola ad Pammachium, non solum virum egregium, et in Scripturis eruditum, sed virginem etiam virginis Ecclesiae doctorem appellat. T.

*Lect. IV.* --Tandem pacata Ecclesia, Damasus otio litterario delectatus, Vitas Pontificum omnium, [0418D] qui ante se fuere, conscripsit, easque ad Hieronymum misit: et cum multa corpora Sanctorum perquirens invenisset, eorum tumbas carminibus adornavit. Elegans enim in componendis carminibus ingenium habuit. Multa brevia opuscula heroicis versibus composuit: Epistolas item multas. T.

*Lect. V.* --Templa cultumque divinum auxit magnopere. Duas enim basilicas aedificavit, alteram juxta theatrum, alteram via Ardeatina, ad catacumbas, dedicavit: et Platoniam, ubi corpora apostolorum Petri et Pauli aliquando jacuerant, et corpora sanctorum eo loci sepulta, versibus exornavit, ad posteritatis memoriam. T.

*Lect. VI.* --Basilicam vero, quam in honorem sancti Laurentii non longe a theatro Pompeiano condiderat, [0419A] maximis muneribus ornavit: patina argentea pondo librarum viginti, hama argentea librarum quindecim, scypho argenteo anaglypho librarum decem: calicibus argenteis quinque, coronis argenteis quinque. Domos quoque circa basilicam positas, fundum etiam Papyrianum agri Ferentinatis, fundumque Antonianum, et balnea non longe a templo posita, dono dedit. T.

*Lect. VII.* --Hic celebrato Romae concilio, Apollinarem Laodicensem et Timotheum discipulum ejus haereseos damnavit: quemadmodum legimus in Epistola ad episcopos Orientales ab eo missa: Legimus et alias ejus synodales epistolas: ut ad episcopos per Illyrium, et ad Paulinum Thessalonicensem episcopum, contra diversas haereses. Hic instituit ut psalmi die noctuque alternis vicibus in Ecclesia canerentur, [0419B] choro in duas partes diviso, et ut in fine psalmorum accineretur, Gloria Patri et Filio, et Spiritui sancto. Mandavit etiam, ut in principio celebrationis missarum, confessio diceretur. T.

*Lect. VIII.* --Ad ejus quoque instantiam, Hieronymus psalterium juxta septuaginta interpretes emendavit, et per vigilias distinxit: cujus scriptis Damasus primus auctoritatem dedit. Tunc enim Biblia Hieronymi legi coepta sunt, cum prius septuaginta interpretum scripta, tantummodo in pretio essent. Tu.

*Lect. IX.* --Ordinationes quinquies fecit, ex quibus presbyteros triginta et unum, diaconos undecim, episcopos per diversa loca numero sexaginta duos creavit. Mortuus est octogenarius, tertio idus [0419C] Decembris: anno secundo Arcadii Augusti. Sepultus est in basilica sua, via Ardeatina, juxta matrem suam, et germanam, et cessavit pontificatus dies unum et triginta. Tu.

## *In fine hujus Breviarii haec leguntur:* AD LAUDEM OMNIPOTENTIS DEI ET ILLIBATAE SEMPER VIRGINIS MARIAE, EXPLICIT

Breviarium divinorum officiorum, juxta ritum sanctae Eborensis Ecclesiae, denuo emendatum, correctum, immutatum, ac longe jam ordinatius elegantiusque factum, jussu et auctoritate reverendissimi in Christo Patris, illustrissimique principis ac domini D. Henrici S. R. E. cardinalis tituli Sanctorum Quatuor Coronatorum, Portugalliae Infantis, [0419D] ac primi ejusdem Ecclesiae archiepiscopi.

OLISIPONE, *apud* LUDOVICUM ROTORIGIUM *bibliopolam, typographum regium, anno a Christo nato, millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo octavo, mense Aprili.*

## VARIA DE PATRIA S. DAMASI TESTIMONIA.

Lucius Marineus Siculus de rebus Hisqaniae lib. II, pag. 309, typis Francofurti 1603 [n: (edit. 2, nam prima prodiit anno 1552)], haec habet de Matritensi oppido:

*Quod a nonnullis Madritum, ab aliis Majoritum appellatur. In cujus circuitu turres numeravimus octo et vigniti supra centum. Est praeterea felicissimum sancti Damasi summi pontificis meritis, qui MAJORITANUS [0420A] fuisse perhibetur a multis. Habet etiam nunc alumnum virum sanctissimum nomine Isidorum, qui fuit agricola.*

Ex Chronico Hispaniae Joannis Vasaei Brugensis, quod una cum Marinaeo impressum est iisdem typis Francofurti, haec exscripsi pag. 653:

*Sanctus Damasus ordinatur Romanus pontifex,* etc. *Fuit hic natus VIMARANIS oppido Portugalliae, inter Durium et Minium, tribus leucis a Bracara Augusta, sicut Bracarensis cantat Ecclesia. Vide* BREVIARIUM *Eborense a* RESENDIO *nitori suo restitutum.*

Ibid., pag. 656:

*Damasus papa,* etc. *Petrus Antonius Beuter TARRACONENSEM fuisse dicit, Marinaeus Siculus MADRITIO civem adscribit. Sed multae, ut diximus, Hispaniae [0420B] Ecclesiae VIMARANENSEM fuisse affirmant.*

In tomo II Hispaniae illustratae edit. cit. Francofurti 1603, habetur narratio apologetica de Academiis et doctis viris Hispaniae, auctore Alfonso Garzia, matamoro Hispalensi, qui primum opellam hanc edidit anno 1553: ibique, pag. 809, legitur:

*Antecesserunt aetate Osius Cordubensis; et illa unica Hieronymi lux, Damasus MADRITENSIS si qua tamen fides Lucio Siculo citra pudorem debetur, qui ex MANTUA CARPETANUM appellat.*

In eodem tomo II Hispaniae Illustratae prostat *Responsio I* Andreae Resendii (is est auctor Lectionum Breviarii Eborensis) ad Bartholomaeum Kebedium Toletanae Ecclesiae sacerdotem, in qua sic lego, pag. 1004:

*Viscella fluvius, Lusitane* VIZELLA, *dictus, in Avum [0420C] majoris famae fluvium, paulo infra Nervae Trajani Caesaris memoriam, in ipsa Avi ripa perdurantem ingreditur. Intra quorum fluviorum confluentes* VIMARANENSIS *est civitas, sancti pontificis Damasi quondam patria, si per vestros liceret. Tametsi nondum decennium est, cum prodiit Onuphrii Veronensis viri diligentissimi, de Pontificibus Romanis liber, omnibus Urbis templis, archivis, bibliothecis perquisitis, accuratissime compositus. Is penitus Lusitanum, ac* IGAEDITANUM *eum facit.* SANCTUS, *inquit,* DAMASUS, ANTONII FILIUS, EGITANENSIS, LUSITANUS HISPANUS. *Sed ego* EBORENSIS *Ecclesiae vetustum Codicem sum secutus, cum ejus vitam* BREVIARIO *inserui.*

Petrus Antonius Beuter, patria Valentinus, edidit Chronicon Hispaniae, Valentino idiomate lucubratum, [0420D] quod hactenus non vidi; anno vero 1604 iterum recudit suum Chronicon, et Valentino in Castellanum sermonem translatum, cum titulo hoc: *Primera parte de la Cronica General de toda Espana y especialmente del reyno de Valencia,* etc. *Impressa en Valencia* 1604. Ibi, cap. 25, lib. I, pag. 146, legitur:

*Despues fue Juliano Apostata treynta y seys emperador, año trezientos sesenta y cinco, y movio persecucion a la Yglesia: mas muriendo el, presto cesso. Era PAPA DAMASO, NATURAL DE TARRAGONA. Siguieron Valentiniano, y Valente, despues Graciano y Valente. Y siguio el gran Theodosio nascido y criado en España.*

Henricus Florez Hispanus, Augustinianae familiae [0421A] Alumnus et magister, tomo IV operis, cui titulus *Espana Sagrada,* tract. 6, cap. ult., fol. 308, edit. Matritensis, anno 1751, agens de Sanctis Toletanis, haec habet:

## XII.

S. DAMASO, *a quien algunos hacen natural de Madrid; y por tanto de la diecesi de Toledo: pero le reservamos para otro sitio que juzgamos muy proprio, por no pender de ninguna opinion particular: y entonces se vera, si fue* ESPAÑOL.

Ex Vita B. Gonsalvi Amaranthi Ordinis Praedicatorum scripta a Fr. Didaco de Rosario, de mandato Fr. Bartholomaei de Martyribus archiepiscopi Bracharensis, apud Bollandistas, ad diem 10 Januarii, n. 3, pag. 641, edit. Venet.:

*In hujus ergo metropolitanae sedis* (Bracharensis) *districto . . . . . in quo olim divus etiam Damasus ex VIMARANENSI oppido ortus,* etc.

## QUARUMDAM ABBATIS TERRIBILINI SENTENTIARUM ANALYSIS.

[0421B]

Ad carm. IX, *de SS. AA. Catacumbis,* non dubitat beatos Apostolos in iis aliquando *habitasse,* ut Damasus ait, id est collocatos fuisse: sed eo delatos conjicit ab ipso statim martyrio, atque ibi depositos, secus ac alii sentiunt qui B. Petrum ad Vaticani radices, B. vero Paulum in Ostiensi sepultum scribunt. A Catacumbis vero ad passionis locum translatos putat diu ante Cornelii et Xysti pontificatum, quia Caius Romanus presbyter, secundo nondum elapso saeculo, *Apostolorum tropaea* Christianorum religioni, *in Vaticani, et in Ostiensi occurrisse* scribit. Equidem quaestionem hanc, quam viri longe doctissimi vix hactenus extricarunt, non attingam. Hoc adjiciam dumtaxat, nullam perspicere me rationem posse, ob quam *versiculus* ille Damasianus, de quo in *notis* monui, exprimere non debeat mirabile illud factum, [0421C] quod Gregorius Magnus narrat. Si quis igitur est, qui sic non sentiat, aliam eidem loco sententiam assignet, rogo, aeque aptam. Edicat etiam cui bono priori alio versiculo nos sic monuit: Discipulos Oriens misit, quod sponte fatemur,
An forte hoc ignorari unquam potuit? Si vero beatorum Apostolorum *tropaea* ad se rapere Orientales, et vindicare non studuerunt, proferat rationem aliquam ob quam Roma suos potius meruit defendere cives;
ostendatque etiam, quae sit alia ejusdem verbi *defendere* vis. Scio Pearsonum ad ann. 258, n. 2, temere scripsisse *Historiam, quam Gregorius narrat, nulla fide dignam esse.* Sed hoc illi liceat dumtaxat, ejusque similibus.

Ad carm. X. Carmen quod ego ex Palatino Gruteriano codice eo loco recensui, ac S. Stephano P. et M. aptari posse existimavi, Damasi esse foetum censet etiam vir eruditus, sed in eo Xystum P. et M. [0421D] laudari conjicit, quem in *coemeterio animadversum* ex Cypriano scimus. Sed huic conjecturae repugnat carmen ipsum, quo constat unum Stephanum tunc martyrem occubuisse, caeteris omnibus cum eodem in coemeterio deprehensis, salvis dimissis. Contra vero cum Xysto *diacones quatuor* caesi sunt, et forte alii, quod vir ipse eruditus observat ad Carm. XXXIII. Hoc igitur, de quo agitur, priori magis, quam alteri martyri sanctissimo et pontifici convenit.

Carmen XIII, *de Sancto Marco papa,* sic ex ingenio supplet: *Insons* Vita fuit Marci, quod novimus omnes
*Blandus* Amore Dei posset qui temnere mundum
*Exemplo* Oravit Populus quod disceret omnis
*Parvus* Honor Vitae, grandis contemptus habendi
[0422A] *Et solers* Virtus tenuit penetralia cordis
*Justitiae* AE custos. Christi perfectus amicus
*Ornav* Et Damasus tumulum, cum reddit honorem, etc.

Sic in epitaphio Sisinnii presbyteri, quod ab eodem Damaso non sine probabili ratione scriptum putat apud Gruter. pag. MCLXXIII, n. 9: Presbyter hic voluit Sisinnus ponere membra
Omnibus acceptus populis, dignusque Sacerdos
Qui sciret Sanctae servare foedera matris.
*Blandus Amore Dei* semper qui vivere nosset,
Contentusque suo nesciret divitis aulam.

Ad Carm. XX, *de S. Saturnino.* In carminis hujus principio Palatinus codex apud Gruter. p. MCLXXI, sic habet: *Horum martyrum cultorum Damasus episcopus servus Dei.* OLA NUNC FUERAT CRARTA . . . . . CINIS AN . .

Sic etiam apud Sarazanium *Vid. col. 394 huj. edit., not.* [ 2 ] not. 20. Deinde ex eodem codice p. MCLXXVI, [0422B] haec affert: NUNC XPI FUERAT CHARTAGINIS ANUS

Supplet igitur ac legit: Horum martyrum cultor Damasus
IncOLA nunc XPI FUERAS Carthaginis, ante.

Sic idem Damasus, carm. XX: Sanguine mutasti patriam, etc.
*Incola nunc Domini.*

Verosimilis conjectura, ac lectio, quae si retineatur, *Saturninus* de quo agitur hoc carmine, idem ille erit, qui Romae detentus sub Decio fuerat, laudatus apud Cyprian. ep. 20, 21, ac deinde martyr. Observat praeterea in Martyrologio Hieronymi, ac Sacramentario Gelasiano ad III kal. Decembris *Romae Thrasonis,* coemeterio scilicet legi, *Saturninum Chrysanthum et Dariam, Maurum, et alios* LXXII. Cum igitur Damasus eos omnes laudasset beatos martyres, an illaudatos praeterisset illos LXXII? Quia vero facilis est in [0422C] numeris exscribendis lapsus, hinc Vir clar. jure conjicit ad illos pertinere *versiculos* quos, *num.* 2, in *Appendice* retuli, eorumque Damasum ipsum auctorem esse.

Ob eamdem rationem *ad S. Hermetem* pertinere putat carmen XXII, *de incerto martyre Graeco,* quem constat depositum fuisse in *coemeterio Bassillae,* Hermetis etiam dicto, atque, ut videtur, eodem fere, quo *Protus et Hiacynthus loco.* Sic enim Anonymus Mabillonianus *in via Pincia Pamphilus, Bassilla, Protus, Hiacynthus, Hermes:* ac Gelasianum Sacramentarium ad V kal. Septembris.

Ad Carm. XXXIII, *de Sepulcro suo,* scripserat Cyprianus *epistol. 82 Ver. edit.,* Xystum in coemeterio animadversum, *et cum eo diacones quatuor.* Sic Baluzius et Vignolius ex mss. codicibus. Contra Fellus legit, et cum eodem *Quartum;* sigillatque Martyrologia, quod eidem Syxto plures socios adjungant, *Felicem* scilicet, seu *Felicissimum, Agapitum, Donatianum, Faustinum, Praetextatum,* aliosque: eaque lectio placuit etiam Ruinario, et Castellano. Observat [0422D] igitur vir accuratus priorem lectionem Damasi testimonio confirmari, plures Sixto *comites* attribuentis, quo etiam argumento post Baronium usi sunt Bollandiani ad diem 6 Augusti. Huic profecto sententiae major etiam vis ex eo accedit, quod *Quarti* hujus nullam ante Adonem et Usuardum mentionem heri observarunt Florentinius et Sollerius. Quidquid igitur de illo sit, quod asseri pro certo potest, illud est, beatum illum pontificem non sine injuria, diuturna sociorum suorum possessione exspoliari posse, quos, ut ait Sacramentarium Leonianum dictum in ejus Missa, *doctrinae suae filios ad eamdem gloriam promerendam incitabat:* quamquam cum eodem viro clarissimo ex eorum numero excluserim *Praetextatum,* qui inspectis Martyrologiis caeteris ac Sacramentariis, [0423A] memoratur in Martyrologio Florentinii, non ut exprimat martyrem aliquem, sed celebre ab eo dictum coemeterium, in quo Martyrum illorum memoria agebatur. Qui vero, et quot fuerint Sixti in martyrio comites, disquirunt diligenter Bollandiani socii, quos si quis consulat, operae pretium fecerit.

Laborat etiam vir clarissimus, ut caeteros conjectura assequatur, quos Damasus eodem loco sepultos ait, sed ut videtur frustra: Equidem si quis hoc idem a me scire vellet, respondeam cum Prudentio hymn. XI, *de Coron:* . . . . . . . . . . tu singula quaeris
Nomina? difficile est, ut replicare queam,
Tantos justorum populos furor impius hausit!

[0424A]Ad Carm. XXXII, *Epitaph. Projectae.* Cur Sarazanius Florum Projectae patrem, consulem dixerit in notis, causam non attulit: forte ex Fl. quod est *Flavio* in eo lapide, *Florum* fecit, ut ait vir eruditus. Suspicatur autem *Florum* hunc illum esse, cujus exstat carmen ad Sepulcrum S. Liberalis martyris apud Gruter. p. MCLXXI, n. 9, quod affert: Martyris hic sancti Liberalis membra quiescunt
Qui quondam in terris consul honore fuit.
Obtulit haec Domino componens atria Florus
Ut sanctos venerans praemia justa ferat.

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## NOTICE.

*The printing being already finished, there were communicated to me some annotations and observations, by the zeal and kindness of that distinguished man the lord abbot Terribilini, which I judged should be added to the work in this place, lest I should defraud readers of the benefit of them.*

*That learned man holds, then, in the first place, that Damasus was born at Rome, and he uses to confirm this opinion the same reasons which I have touched on. He observes also that there are many ancient writers, mentioned by Sarazani and [0417C] by Coustant, who treat of that pontiff and praise him: but that among them there is not so much as one who called him a Spaniard before the Catalogue of the Roman Pontiffs, which they say was compiled under Felix IV, or Anastasius, by whom they think that Catalogue was copied out — but he judges that the authority of neither of these writers is great. He then brings forward more recent authors from that renowned nation, and says that they rest on no solid foundation, and moreover fight among themselves about the place; lastly, from the Breviary of Évora printed in the year 1548, he copies out the collect and the lessons appointed for the Feast of St. Damasus. Here, then, in this place, is the whole of it gathered together.*

## From the Breviary of the Church of Évora in Lusitania, printed in type in the year 1548, p. 837.ON THE FEAST OF SAINT DAMASUS, POPE AND CONFESSOR.

[0417D]

*Collect.* --Thy mercy, O Lord, we beseech thee, mercifully bestow upon us, by the intercession of thy blessed confessor and pontiff Damasus: and be favorable to our offenses by his prayers. P.

*Lesson I.* --Blessed Damasus, the first of this name, a Spaniard by nation, of Guimarães by native place, from the province of Braga, his father being Antonius, succeeded in the pontificate — according to Jerome in the Ecclesiastical History — Liberius, but according to others Felix II, in the year of the Lord 369, under the emperors Valentinian and Valens. He sat eighteen years, two months, ten days. T.

*Lesson II.* --But Ursicinus, or, as others read, [0418B] Ursinus, a deacon of the Roman Church, not bearing that Damasus was preferred before him, broke out into such madness that, having persuaded a certain unskilled and rustic bishop, and having gathered a band of turbulent and seditious men, he extorted for himself to be made bishop in the basilica which is called Sicininus, the laws, the order, and the tradition being overthrown. And so, since the matter was carried on not only by votes but also by force and arms, many fell on both sides. Ammianus Marcellinus, a historian of that time, relates that the bodies of one hundred and thirty-seven men slain in one day were found in the basilica of Sicininus. [0418C] At length, by the consent of the priests and the people, Damasus was confirmed; and Ursicinus was cast out of the City and transferred to the Church of Naples. T.

*Lesson III.* --But Damasus, accused of adultery through envy, cleared himself in a synod held before forty-four bishops; by whom he was acquitted as innocent, and his accusers, the deacons Concordius and Callixtus, were condemned and cast out of the Church. Certainly blessed Jerome, in the letter to Pammachius, calls him not only an excellent man and learned in the Scriptures, but a virgin also, and the teacher of a virgin Church. T.

*Lesson IV.* --At last, the Church being at peace, Damasus, delighting in literary leisure, wrote the Lives of all the Pontiffs [0418D] who had been before him, and sent them to Jerome; and when, searching out many bodies of the saints, he had found them, he adorned their tombs with verses. For he had an elegant talent in composing verses. He composed many short works in heroic verse, and likewise many Letters. T.

*Lesson V.* --He greatly increased the temples and the divine worship. For he built two basilicas, and dedicated the one beside the theater, the other on the Ardeatine Way, at the catacombs; and he adorned with verses, for the memory of posterity, the Platonia, where the bodies of the apostles Peter and Paul had once lain, and the bodies of the saints buried in that place. T.

*Lesson VI.* --And the basilica which he had founded in honor of Saint Lawrence not far from the theater of Pompey, [0419A] he adorned with the greatest gifts: a silver dish of twenty pounds' weight, a silver bucket of fifteen pounds, an embossed silver cup of ten pounds; five silver chalices, five silver crowns. He gave also as a gift the houses set about the basilica, and likewise the Papyrian estate in the territory of Ferentinum, and the Antonian estate, and the baths set not far from the temple. T.

*Lesson VII.* --He, a council having been held at Rome, condemned for heresy Apollinaris of Laodicea and Timothy his disciple: as we read in the Letter sent by him to the bishops of the East. We read also his other synodal letters: as to the bishops throughout Illyricum, and to Paulinus bishop of Thessalonica, against various heresies. He appointed that the psalms should be sung in the Church by turns day and night, [0419B] the choir being divided into two parts, and that at the end of the psalms there should be sung, Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. He commanded also that at the beginning of the celebration of Masses the confession should be said. T.

*Lesson VIII.* --At his instance also Jerome corrected the psalter according to the seventy translators, and divided it by vigils: to whose writings Damasus first gave authority. For then the Bibles of Jerome began to be read, whereas before the writings of the seventy translators alone were held in esteem. Tu.

*Lesson IX.* --He held ordinations five times, in which he created thirty-one priests, eleven deacons, and bishops in various places to the number of sixty-two. He died at the age of eighty, on the third of the Ides of [0419C] December, in the second year of Arcadius Augustus. He was buried in his own basilica on the Ardeatine Way, beside his mother and his sister, and the pontificate was vacant thirty-one days. Tu.

## *At the end of this Breviary these words are read:* TO THE PRAISE OF ALMIGHTY GOD AND OF THE EVER UNDEFILED VIRGIN MARY, HERE ENDS

The Breviary of the divine offices, according to the rite of the holy Church of Évora, once more emended, corrected, altered, and now made far more orderly and elegant, by the command and authority of the most reverend Father in Christ and most illustrious prince and lord, the lord Henry, cardinal of the Holy Roman Church of the title of the Four Crowned Saints, Infante of Portugal, [0419D] and first archbishop of that same Church.

AT LISBON, *at the shop of* LUÍS RODRIGUES, *bookseller, royal printer, in the year from the birth of Christ one thousand five hundred and forty-eight, in the month of April.*

## VARIOUS TESTIMONIES CONCERNING THE NATIVE COUNTRY OF ST. DAMASUS.

Lucius Marineus Siculus, *On the Affairs of [sic: Hisqaniae]*, Book II, p. 309, printed at Frankfurt 1603 [n: (edit. 2, nam prima prodiit anno 1552)], has these words about the town of Madrid:

*Which by some is called Madritum, by others Majoritum. In its circuit we counted towers, eight and [sic: *vigniti*] above a hundred. It is moreover most happy in the merits of Saint Damasus, the supreme pontiff, who [0420A] is said by many to have been a MAN OF MAJORITUM. It has even now as its foster son a most holy man by the name of Isidore, who was a husbandman.*

From the Chronicle of Spain of Joannes Vasaeus of Bruges, which was printed together with Marineus in the same types at Frankfurt, I have copied these words from p. 653:

*Saint Damasus is ordained Roman pontiff,* etc. *He was born in VIMARANES, a town of Portugal, between the Douro and the Minho, three leagues from Braga Augusta, as the Church of Braga sings. See the* BREVIARY *of Évora, restored to its own brightness by* RESENDE.

Ibid., p. 656:

*Pope Damasus,* etc. *Pedro Antonio Beuter says that he was a man of TARRAGONA; Marineus Siculus enrolls him as a citizen of MADRID. But many Churches of Spain, as we have said, [0420B] affirm that he was a man of VIMARANES.*

In volume II of *Hispania Illustrata*, in the cited edition, Frankfurt 1603, there is an apologetic account of the Academies and learned men of Spain, by Alfonso García, of Matamoros of Seville, who first published this little work in the year 1553; and there, on p. 809, one reads:

*There went before them in age Osius of Córdoba; and that unique light of Jerome, Damasus OF MADRID — if indeed any credit is owed without shame to Lucius Siculus, who from MANTUA calls him a CARPETANIAN.*

In the same volume II of *Hispania Illustrata* there stands the *First Reply* of Andrés de Resende (he is the author of the Lessons of the Breviary of Évora) to Bartolomé Quevedo, priest of the Church of Toledo, in which I read thus, on p. 1004:

*The river Viscella, in Portuguese called* VIZELLA, *enters the Ave, [0420C] a river of greater fame, a little below the monument of Nerva Trajan Caesar, which still endures on the very bank of the Ave. Between the confluences of these rivers is the city of* VIMARANES, *once the native country of the holy pontiff Damasus, if it might be allowed by your people. And yet it is not yet ten years since there appeared the book of Onofrio of Verona, that most diligent man,* On the Roman Pontiffs, *composed most accurately after all the churches, archives, and libraries of the City had been searched through. He makes him thoroughly a Lusitanian, and a man of* IGAEDIS. SAINT, *he says,* DAMASUS, SON OF ANTONIUS, OF EGITANIA, A LUSITANIAN SPANIARD. *But I have followed the ancient Codex of the Church of* ÉVORA, *when I inserted his life into the* BREVIARY.

Pedro Antonio Beuter, a Valencian by native place, published a Chronicle of Spain, worked out in the Valencian tongue, [0420D] which so far I have not seen; but in the year 1604 he printed his Chronicle again, translated too from Valencian into the Castilian speech, with this title: *First part of the General Chronicle of all Spain, and especially of the kingdom of Valencia,* etc. *Printed at Valencia* 1604. There, in chapter 25 of Book I, p. 146, one reads:

*Afterward Julian the Apostate was the thirty-sixth emperor, in the year three hundred and sixty-five, and he stirred up a persecution against the Church: but when he died, it soon ceased. The POPE WAS DAMASUS, A NATIVE OF TARRAGONA. There followed Valentinian and Valens, and after them Gratian and Valens. And there followed the great Theodosius, born and reared in Spain.*

Enrique Flórez, a Spaniard, foster son and master [0421A] of the Augustinian family, in volume IV of the work entitled *España Sagrada*, treatise 6, last chapter, fol. 308, the Madrid edition, of the year 1751, treating of the saints of Toledo, has these words:

## XII.

ST. DAMASUS, *whom some make a native of Madrid, and therefore of the diocese of Toledo: but we reserve him for another place which we judge very fitting, so as not to depend on any particular opinion; and then it will be seen whether he was* A SPANIARD.

From the Life of Blessed Gonsalvus of Amarante, of the Order of Preachers, written by Friar Diogo do Rosário, by the command of Friar Bartolomeu dos Mártires, archbishop of Braga, in the Bollandists, at the 10th day of January, no. 3, p. 641, the Venice edition:

*In the district, therefore, of this metropolitan see* (of Braga) *. . . . . in which of old the divine Damasus also, sprung from the town of* VIMARANES, etc.

## AN ANALYSIS OF CERTAIN OPINIONS OF THE ABBOT TERRIBILINI.

[0421B]

On poem IX, *On the Catacombs of the Holy Apostles*, he does not doubt that the blessed Apostles at one time *dwelt* in them, as Damasus says — that is, were placed there; but he conjectures that they were carried thither immediately from the martyrdom itself, and were laid there, otherwise than others hold, who write that blessed Peter was buried at the foot of the Vatican, and blessed Paul on the Ostian Way. But he thinks they were translated from the Catacombs to the place of their passion long before the pontificate of Cornelius and Xystus, because Caius, a Roman priest, before the second century had yet run out, writes that the *trophies of the Apostles met* the religious devotion of the Christians *on the Vatican and on the Ostian Way*. For my own part I shall not touch this question, which men far more learned have scarcely disentangled to this day. I will add only this: that I can perceive no reason why that Damasian *little verse*, of which I gave warning in the *notes*, ought not to express that marvelous deed [0421C] which Gregory the Great relates. If, therefore, there is anyone who does not judge so, let him assign to the same passage, I ask, some other meaning equally apt. Let him declare also to what good purpose Damasus warned us thus in another, earlier little verse: The East sent the disciples — which we willingly grant,
Or could this perhaps ever have been unknown? But if the men of the East did not take pains to seize for themselves and lay claim to the *trophies* of the blessed Apostles, let him bring forward some reason why Rome rather deserved to *defend* her own citizens;
and let him show also what other force this same word *defend* has. I know that Pearson, at the year 258, no. 2, rashly wrote that *the History which Gregory relates is worthy of no credit.* But let that be permitted to him alone, and to such as he.

On poem X. The poem which I set out in that place from the Palatine codex of Gruter, and judged could be fitted to St. Stephen, Pope and Martyr, the learned man also judges to be the offspring of Damasus; but he conjectures that in it Xystus, Pope and Martyr, is praised, [0421D] whom we know from Cyprian to have been *put to death in the cemetery*. But the poem itself is against this conjecture, since from it it is plain that Stephen alone then fell a martyr, all the rest, taken with him in the cemetery, being let go unharmed. On the contrary, with Xystus *four deacons* were slain, and perhaps others, which the learned man himself observes on Poem XXXIII. This poem, therefore, with which we are dealing, suits the former most holy martyr and pontiff rather than the other.

Poem XIII, *On Saint Mark the Pope*, he supplies thus out of his own wit: *Guiltless* was the Life of Mark, as we all know
*Winning* in the Love of God, he who could despise the world
*By his example* the People Prayed, that every man might learn
*Small* was the Honor of his Life, great his contempt of possessing
[0422A] *And skillful* Virtue held the inmost chambers of his heart
*Of justice* AE the guardian. The perfect friend of Christ
*Adorn*ed too by Damasus was the tomb, when he renders honor, etc.

So too in the epitaph of Sisinnius the presbyter, which he thinks was written by the same Damasus, not without probable reason, in Gruter, p. MCLXXIII, no. 9: Here the presbyter Sisinnus wished to lay his limbs,
acceptable to all peoples, and a worthy Priest,
who knew how to keep the covenants of his holy mother.
*Winning in the Love of God*, he who knew how ever to live,
and, content with his own, knew not the hall of the rich man.

On Poem XX, *On St. Saturninus*. At the beginning of this poem the Palatine codex in Gruter, p. MCLXXI, has thus: *Damasus the bishop, servant of God, a cultivator of these martyrs.* OLA NUNC FUERAT CRARTA . . . . . CINIS AN . .

So also in Sarazani, *See col. 394 of this edition, note* [ 2 ] note 20. Then from the same codex, p. MCLXXVI, [0422B] he brings forward these: NUNC XPI FUERAT CHARTAGINIS ANUS

He therefore supplies and reads: Horum martyrum cultor Damasus
IncOLA nunc XPI FUERAS Carthaginis, ante.

So the same Damasus, poem XX: By your blood you changed your fatherland, etc.
*Now a dweller of the Lord.*

A likely conjecture, and reading; and if it be kept, the *Saturninus* with whom this poem deals will be that same man who had been held at Rome under Decius, praised in Cyprian, epp. 20, 21, and afterward a martyr. He observes besides that in the Martyrology of Jerome, and in the Gelasian Sacramentary, at III kal. December, one reads *At Rome, of Thraso* — that is, in the cemetery — *Saturninus, Chrysanthus and Daria, Maurus, and* LXXII *others*. Since, then, Damasus had praised all of them as blessed martyrs, would he have passed over those LXXII unpraised? But because a slip is easy in [0422C] copying out numbers, the distinguished man rightly conjectures that to them belong the *little verses* which I reported at *no.* 2 in the *Appendix*, and that Damasus himself is their author.

For the same reason he thinks that poem XXII, *On an uncertain Greek martyr*, pertains *to St. Hermes*, who is known to have been laid *in the cemetery of Bassilla*, called also that of Hermes, and, as it seems, in nearly the same *place as Protus and Hyacinthus*. For thus the Anonymous of Mabillon: *on the Pincian way, Pamphilus, Bassilla, Protus, Hyacinthus, Hermes*; and the Gelasian Sacramentary at V kal. September.

On Poem XXXIII, *On his own Sepulchre*: Cyprian had written, *epistle 82 of the Verona edition*, that Xystus was put to death in the cemetery, *and with him four deacons*. So Baluze and Vignoli, from manuscript codices. Against this Fell reads, and with him *Quartus*; and he sets his mark upon the Martyrologies for joining several companions to the same Sixtus, namely *Felix*, or *Felicissimus, Agapitus, Donatianus, Faustinus, Praetextatus*, and others: and that reading pleased Ruinart and Castellanus also. The exact man therefore observes [0422D] that the former reading is confirmed by the testimony of Damasus, who attributes several *companions* to Sixtus, which argument the Bollandists also, after Baronius, used at the 6th day of August. To this opinion indeed a still greater force accrues from this, that Florentinius and Sollerius observed that there was no mention of this *Quartus* before Ado and Usuard. Whatever, then, is the case concerning him, what can be asserted for certain is this: that the blessed pontiff cannot, without injury, be stripped of the long-standing possession of his companions, whom, as the Leonine Sacramentary says in his Mass, *he was urging on, as the sons of his teaching, to earn the same glory*; although, together with that same most distinguished man, I would exclude from their number *Praetextatus*, who, when the other Martyrologies and Sacramentaries are inspected, [0423A] is mentioned in the Martyrology of Florentinius not so as to denote some martyr, but the famous cemetery called after him, in which the memory of those Martyrs was kept. But who, and how many, were Sixtus' companions in martyrdom, the Bollandist fellows diligently inquire; and whoever consults them will have done a thing worth the labor.

The most distinguished man labors also to reach by conjecture the others whom Damasus says were buried in the same place, but, as it seems, in vain. For my part, if anyone should wish to learn this same thing from me, I would answer with Prudentius, hymn XI, *On the Crowns*: . . . . . . . . . . dost thou ask the several
names? It is hard that I should be able to unfold them:
so great peoples of the just has impious fury swallowed up!

[0424A]On Poem XXXII, *the Epitaph of Projecta*. Why Sarazani in his notes called Florus, the father of Projecta, a consul, he did not give the reason: perhaps out of Fl., which on that stone is *Flavio*, he made *Florus*, as the learned man says. But he suspects that this *Florus* is the man whose poem stands at the Sepulchre of St. Liberalis the martyr in Gruter, p. MCLXXI, no. 9, which he brings forward: Here rest the limbs of the holy martyr Liberalis,
who once on earth was a consul in honor.
Florus offered these things to the Lord, framing this hall,
that, venerating the saints, he might bear away just rewards.


site: migne

title: Testamentum

author: Atto of Vercelli and Various Authors

languages: en la

source_edition: Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 134, coll. 893C–900B

source_text:
## Testamentum

[0893C]In nomine sanctae et individuae Trinitatis Patris et Filii et Spiritus sancti, cui sit gloria in sempiterna saecula saeculorum, amen. Regnantibus domno Hugone et domno Hlotario piissimis regibus, regni domni Hugonis vigesimo, et domni Hlotarii decimo quinto, pontificante venerabile patre et domino domino Marino sanctissimo papa universalis Ecclesiae Dei anno tertio, indictione 3, Idibus Maii, constituta synodo a venerabili patre domno Olderico archiepiscopo sanctae Mediolanensis Ecclesiae in basilica gloriosissimi pontificis et confessoris sancti Ambrosii ante ejus sanctum corpus; astantibus domno Hugone legato misso dominorum qui supra regum, et venerabili patre domno Rogerio episcopo Perusino legato sanctissimi domini papae. In ipsa synodo erat venerabilis [0893D] pater dominus archiepiscopus sanctae Mediolanensis Ecclesiae, et venerabiles episcopi Vercellensis, Papiensis, Novariensis, Brixiensis, Laudensis, Bergomensis, Terdonensis, Cremonensis, Astensis, Curiensis, Taurinensis, Eporediensis, Augustensis, Albensis, Aquensis, Savonensis, Januensis, Albingaunensis, [0894C] Vigintimiliensis, Placentinus, Parmensis, Mutinensis, et quamplures alii episcopi, abbates, sacerdotes, et clerici, una cum Vidone comite et quamplures illustres regni proceres.

Completa liturgia, antequam dissolveretur synodus, surrexit domnus Atto sanctae Vercellensis Ecclesiae episcopus, qui petiit reverenter facultatem loquendi, qua ei largita, dominus archiepiscopus eum sedere fecit, quo facto dixit: Venerabiles Patres et illustres viri, cum dixisset Deus in sancto Evangelio ubi duo vel tres in nomine meo congregati sunt, ibi et ego in medio eorum sum; ideo dubitare non debemus, Deum in medio nostrorum esse. Quam ob rem cum sim in bona senectute constitutus, et Deus nos admonuisset dicens: Estote parati, quia [0894D] nescitis diem neque horam quando Dominus veniet, propterea si vultis mihi complacere, vellem coram Deo et vobis bona mea ordinare ad salutem animae meae, parentumque meorum et omnium fidelium defunctorum, ut post mortem meam habeam qui pro anima mea Deum exorent, ut a peccatis solvatur. [0895A] Quibus auditis, omnes dixerunt: Fiat per venerabilem domnum Attonem quidquid vult. Et ipse sic dicere coepit:

In Jesu Christi nomine, ego Atto, sanctae Vercellensis Ecclesiae humilis episcopus, cogitans infallibilia esse verba Domini, videlicet thesaurizate vobis thesauros in coelo, et date pauperibus, quoniam centuplum accipietis et vitam aeternam possidebitis; ideo ego qui supra Atto episcopus volo, judico, seu per hoc meum judicatum statuo una cum Hugone marchione, ac Brucardo comite advocatis meis, quod omnia quae statuero perpetuis temporibus inviolata permaneant: et in primis judico et lego statim post mortem meam palatium meum Stazone cum ejus pomerio et silva et annexis in integrum [0895B] vobis venerabili patri, et domine domine archiepiscope Mediolani, et iis qui post vos Ecclesiam Mediolanensem episcopabunt, ita ut perpetuis temporibus permaneat sine imminutione in potestate archiepiscoporum Mediolani: pro quo rogo eos semel in anno sacra facere pro requie animae meae. Item lego et judico Ecclesiae sancti Eusebii seu episcopatui ejus, unde sum indigne episcopus, casales quatuor juris mei in valle Augustae, et alios duos in Verdezzo, omnia cum suis aedificiis et terris et juribus mihi, qui supra Attoni episcopo spectantibus, cum servis et aldiis utriusque sexus in integrum; ita ut qui post me praeerunt dictae Ecclesiae, usufructuario nomine tantum, cunctis diebus suis faciant ex fructibus eorum quidquid voluerint, absque tamen alienatione [0895C] fundi. Quod si aliquid alienaverint, praedicta omnia perveniant in potestatem sanctae Eporediensis Ecclesiae: qui omnes mei successores teneantur semel in mense sacrum facere, ut Deus misereatur animae meae pro ignorantiis in regimine Ecclesiae mihi commissae.

Item judico et lego canonicis praedictae sanctae Ecclesiae curtem regiam cum curticella, quae sunt juris mei, qui supra Attonis episcopi, cum eorum aedificiis, terris et juribus, vivis et mortuis in integrum, ut de eorum proventibus in Dominica olivarum unitim sumant refectionem, et residuum dividatur in octava Pentecostis aequis portionibus inter eos, quo die anniversarium faciunt pro omnibus episcopis ejus sanctae Vercellensis Ecclesiae, et prohibeo [0895D] eis omnem alienationem; et si alienaverint, omnia proveniant in potestatem Ecclesiae Taurinensis. Item volo quod statim post meum decessum, in honorem duodecim apostolorum liberentur duodecim servi mei, qui supra Attonis episcopi, ita ut cum uxoribus suis et filiis, cum omnibus eorum substantiis sint liberi, prout nunc, pro tunc, manumitto et libero.

Item judico et lego domno Aldemano consanguineo [0896A] meo archipresbytero sanctae Mediolanensis Ecclesiae, et cardinalibus et presbyteris decumanis, et clero dictae Ecclesiae, qui modo sunt et in futuro erunt, illas quatuor valles juris mei, qui supra Attonis episcopi, quae vocantur Bellaniam, Leventinam, Biascam, et Intrascam, cum omnibus capellis, casis et terris, cujuscunque speciei sint, cum famulis et aldiis utriusque sexus in integrum, ita ut perpetuo sint in potestate cleri dictae sanctae Mediolanensis Ecclesiae, cujus fui indignus archidiaconus. Quorum proventus sic dividatur: dominus archipresbyter tantum habeat, quam duo cardinales presbyteri; et cardinales presbyteri cum primicerio decumanorum tantum habeant per unumquemque, quam duo presbyteri decumani; et diaconi cardinales et subdiaconi [0896B] quantum unus presbyter decumanus. Eam vero partem, quae cardinalibus presbyteris spectat, dividat archipresbyter; ea quae cardinalibus diaconis et subdiaconis, dividatur per archidiaconum; et decumanis dividatur per eorum primicerium ad ejus mansionem. Et haec omnia cum conditione ut in perpetuum omni primo die lunae Quadragesimae majoris praedicti archipresbyter et cardinales primicerius et decumani, qui pro tempore erunt, veniant cum litaniis, et crucibus ad hanc basilicam, ubi ante corpora sanctorum Ambrosii, Protasii, et Gervasii, sacrum celebrent pro animabus, mea, et bonae memoriae domni Desiderii regis, et ducis Ermenulfi ejus patris, et Asprandi et Eberardi ejus fratris abavi mei, qui supra Attonis episcopi, ejus filii et aliorum [0896C] filiorum ejus. Et item in die lunae sequenti idem fiat ante corpus sancti Satyri in requiem animae meae et bonae memoriae Vuidonis comitis qui fuit proavus meus, et Attonis qui et Anscarius, qui fuit marchio, ejus filii, qui sunt tumulati in eadem ecclesia. Iterum idem fiat tertio die lunae sequenti, ut supra, et ibi ante corpus sanctae Marcellinae virginis sacrum fiat pro animabus, mea, et bonae memoriae Aldigerii, alias Ermenulfi patris mei, et fratrum suorum in eadem ecclesia quiescentium. Et prima die recedendo ab ipsa ecclesia intrent ecclesiam sancti Naboris; secunda vero vadant ad basilicam trium regum; et tertia pergant ad ecclesiam sancti Georgii, ibi ubi dicitur ad palatium, et ibi faciant kyrie et rogationes pro salute hujus civitatis [0896D] et omnium habitantium in ea, et in fine dicant requiem pro omnibus defunctis. Qui vero ad istas tres litanias non erit, nihil penitus habeat, salvo si aegrotaret, et tamen teneatur idem facere in alio die.

Item judico et lego venerabili domno Rupaldo abbati monasterii prope eamdem basilicam, et ejus monasterio, curtem meam de Deliciano, cum capella, et casis, et terris, et juribus ejus, et famulis mihi qui supra Attoni episcopo spectantibus, in integrum; [0897A] cum hac tamen conditione, ut ipse abbas cum monachis suis, dum cardinales et decumani praefati erunt in ecclesia sancti Ambrosii, vadant cum litaniis suis ad ecclesiam sanctae Mariae Majoris sitam intra civitatem Mediolani, ubi dicitur intus vineam, et ibi sacra faciant pro anima mea, et bonae memoriae domnae Mariae matris, ac domnae Imildae sororis, mearum, ibi humatarum: altera die idem faciant pro animabus bonae memoriae comitissae Felindae aviae meae, et filiarum ejus; et die tertio etiam ita fiat pro animabus Rodelindae proaviae meae, et omnium defunctorum meorum: quod si non fiet, omnia praedicta eis legata sint domnae Bertradae abbatissae dicti monasterii sanctae Mariae Majoris. Item judico et lego dictae venerabili domnae abbatissae Bertradae [0897B] fratruae meae cum ejus monialibus et monasterio suo mansa quinque terrae juris mei, qui supra Attonis episcopi, in curte Cerdati, cum aedificiis, servis, aldiis et eorum familiis utriusque sexus spectantibus, in integrum, ut commodius possint Deo servire, et semel in mense recordentur orare ut anima mea a peccatis solvatur.

Et haec omnia ego qui supra Atto episcopus judico et facio cum conditione, quod praedicti omnes qui supra cardinales, decumani, abbas, monachi, abbatissa, et moniales, ac eorum successores, vel succetrices, unitim vel separatim, in totum vel in partem, dictas valles, curtes, casales, terras, servos, famulos, aldios utriusque sexus, non possint quovis modo alienare aut invasere, quia mea firma voluntas [0897C] est, quod omnia praedicta perpetuis temporibus permaneant ad cultum divinum in requiem omnium defunctorum meorum. Ideo reverenter rogo vos, venerabiles, pater domine archiepiscope, et omnes residentes in hac sancta synodo, ut ponatis excommunicationem et anathema super omnes qui hoc meum judicatum in toto vel in parte violaverint.

Hoc audito, dominus archiepiscopus et omnis synodus ex parte Dei et omnium sanctorum anathematizavit quicunque per qualecunque ingenium hoc judicatum venerabilis patris domini Attonis sanctae Vercellensis Ecclesiae episcopi violaverit; et qui fecerit, partem habeat cum Juda traditore ac Simone mago in gehennam aeternam, una cum Satana et diabolis ejus. Et dixerunt omnes: Fiat, fiat, fiat. [0897D] Quo facto, ipse Atto episcopus dixit: Audite, omnes venerabiles Patres; hic disposui, quae judicare et disponere potui pro conscientia mea; reliquas vero meas substantias, quae mihi modo pertinere videntur, judico et lego propinquioribus meis, ut de eis faciant quidquid voluerint, juxta dispositionem majorum eorum, et lex Longobarda disponit. Item rogo sanctum patrem venerabilem papam, et clementissimos dominos reges suis litteris hoc meum judicatum confirmare dignentur.

Quibus auditis, dominus Hugo comes et dominus Rogerius episcopus missi praedicti, auctoritatem dominorum [0898A] regum et domini papae interponentes, haec omnia convalidaverunt et confirmare facere promiserunt. His peractis, idem dominus Atto episcopus una cum Hugone marchione et Brucardo comite advocatis suis dixit: Haec est mea libera voluntas et ultimum meum judicatum. Sic me Deus adjuvet, amen. Actum in basilica sancti Ambrosii pontificis et confessoris, ubi ejus sanctum requiescit corpus.

+ Ego Rogerius humilis episcopus legatus missus sanctissimi patris venerabilis Marini papae hoc judicatum laudavi, confirmavi, et subscripsi.

Ego Hugo comes legatus missus dominorum Hugonis et Lotharii regum piissimorum hoc judicatum laudavi, confirmavi, et manu mea subscripsi.

[0898B]+ Ego Olricus sanctae Mediolanensis Ecclesiae archiepiscopus omnibus, quae supra interfui, laudavi, confirmavi, et propria manu subscripsi.

+ Ego Atto sacrae Vercellensis Ecclesiae indignus episcopus ad confirmandum hoc meum judicatum manu mea subscripsi.

+ Ego Lincfredus Papiensis episcopus laudavi et confirmavi.

+ Notinghus Brixiensis episcopus subscripsi:

## Testamentum (cont.)

+ Gezzo sanctae Dertonensis Ecclesiae episcopus manu propria subscripsi.

+ Ego Bruningus Astensis episcopus subscripsi.

+ Ego Riculfus episcopus Taurinensis laudavi et subscripsi.

+ Griffo Augustanus episcopus subscripsit.

[0898C]+ Ego Adalgisius sanctae Aquensis Ecclesiae episcopus me subscripsi.

+ Mildo Vigintimiliensis Ecclesiae episcopus firmavit.

+ Ego Sigifredus Parmensis episcopus subscripsi.

+ Joannes Massanensis episcopus firmavit.

+ Ego Aldemanus sanctae Mediolanensis Ecclesiae archipresbyter laudavi, et ad firmandum manus posui.

+ Daipertus episcopus sanctae Cremonensis Ecclesiae manu sua firmavit.

+ Ego Baldo Curiensis episcopus subscripsi.

+ Asmundus Eporediensis episcopus manu mea firmavi.

+ Ego Daibertus episcopus Albensis subscripsi.

[0898D]+ Ingulfus Albengaunensis episcopus firmavit.

+ Ego Boso episcopus Placentinus subscripsi.

+ Ego Vuido Mutinensis episcopus laudavi et subscripsi.

+ Lotherius Marianensis Ecclesiae episcopus subscripsi.

+ Ego Hupaldus humilis abbas laudavi et subscripsi.

Signa * * manuum Hugonis marchionis, et Brucardi comitis advocati praefati venerabilis patris domini Attonis episcopi, qui hoc judicatum laudaverunt, [0899A] et ad confirmandum manus suas posuerunt.

Signa ****** manuum Ariperti, Olderici, Joannis, Asprandi, Burli, et Canonis testium, et quamplurimae aliae personae quae ad hoc vocati [n: ( ita cod. )] sunt.

Ego Vualpertus humilis archidiaconus et cancellarius sanctae Mediolanensis Ecclesiae et praesentis sacri [n: ( ita cod. )] synodi de mandato suprascriptorum Patrum hoc judicatum venerabilis patris domini Attonis episcopi Vercellarum scripsi, tradidi, et subscripsi.

Ego Lambertus notarius sacri palatii et missus dominorum Hugonis et Lotharii piissimorum regum, una cum suprascripto domino archidiacono tradidi [0899B] atque subscripsi.

Ego Petrus, qui dicor Rabbus, notarius domini Henrici imperatoris suprascriptum judicatum domini Attonis episcopi Vercellarum ab eo pronuntiatum in synodo Mediolanensi et subscriptum, ut supra fideliter exemplatum per infrascriptum Bogerium Bonafidem notarium ab originale praedicti judicatus, quod apparet fuisse tribus sigillis munitum, primum quorum erat dominorum regum, alterum cum sanctis Petro et Paulo, et tertium cum sancto Ambrosio sed antiquitate quasi consumptum, cum ipso originale, ut plurimum marcido, ut vix difficulter legi possit, diligenter concordavi, rogatus a [0900A] venerabili domino Ambrosio dicto de Vicomercato abbate monasterii sancti Ambrosii, ubi ejus sanctum requiescit corpus; instante etiam domna Columba abbatissa monasterii Majoris Mediolani: et hoc de mandato domni Joannis dicti de Rusca honorabilis potestatis civitatis et communis Mediolani, praesentibus dicto Bonafide, T. Senago, Jo. Coalia, J. Canova, A. Lomatio, notariis, atque Thoma dicto Crasso, et Rufino Corbo juris peritis, ac Ossa de Ossis, Petro dicto Bellabucca, Comasino de Cremis, Joanne Marcellino, Vidone vicecomite, testibus: et quia concordare inveni, praeter litteras plus minusve, mea manu subscripsi.

Ego Tebaldus, qui dicor de Sunago, notarius hoc transumptum quia fidele inveni me subscripsi.

[0900B]Ego Joannes, qui dicor Coalia, notarius sacri palatii praedicto transumpto interfui, et quia concordare inveni, ut supra, de mandato me subscripsi.

Ego Joannes, qui dicor de Canova, imperialis notarius hoc transumptum fideliter concordavi, et [quia] uniforme cum originale inveni, me subscripsi.

Ego Anselarus, qui dicor de Lamatio, notarius cum supradictis notariis hoc transumptum examinavi, et quia concordare inveni, me subscripsi.

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## Testament

[0893C]In the name of the holy and undivided Trinity, of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, to whom be glory unto everlasting ages of ages, amen. In the reign of the lord Hugh and the lord Lothair, most pious kings — the twentieth year of the reign of the lord Hugh, and the fifteenth of the lord Lothair — in the third year of the pontificate of the venerable father and lord, the lord Marinus, most holy pope of the universal Church of God, in the third indiction, on the Ides of May, a synod having been convened by the venerable father the lord Olderic, archbishop of the holy Church of Milan, in the basilica of the most glorious pontiff and confessor Saint Ambrose, before his holy body; there being present the lord Hugh, legate sent by the lords the aforesaid kings, and the venerable father the lord Roger, bishop of Perugia, legate of the most holy lord pope. At that same synod was present the venerable [0893D] father the lord archbishop of the holy Church of Milan, and the venerable bishops of Vercelli, Pavia, Novara, Brescia, Lodi, Bergamo, Tortona, Cremona, Asti, Chur, Turin, Ivrea, Aosta, Alba, Acqui, Savona, Genoa, Albenga, [0894C] Ventimiglia, Piacenza, Parma, Modena, and a great many other bishops, abbots, priests, and clerics, together with Count Guido and a great many illustrious magnates of the kingdom.

The liturgy completed, before the synod was dissolved, the lord Atto, bishop of the holy Church of Vercelli, rose, and reverently asked leave to speak; and this being granted him, the lord archbishop had him take his seat. This done, he said: Venerable Fathers and illustrious men, since God has said in the holy Gospel, *where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I also in the midst of them*, we therefore ought not to doubt that God is in the midst of us. Wherefore, since I am set in a ripe old age, and God has admonished us, saying, *Be ye ready, for [0894D] ye know neither the day nor the hour when the Lord shall come*, therefore, if it please you to gratify me, I would set my goods in order before God and before you, for the salvation of my soul, and of my kinsfolk, and of all the faithful departed, so that after my death I may have those who will entreat God for my soul, that it may be loosed from its sins. [0895A] Having heard these things, all said: Let whatever the venerable lord Atto wishes be done through him. And he began to speak thus:

In the name of Jesus Christ, I, Atto, humble bishop of the holy Church of Vercelli, considering that the words of the Lord are infallible — namely, *lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, and give to the poor, for ye shall receive a hundredfold and shall possess life eternal* — therefore I, the aforesaid Bishop Atto, will, adjudge, and by this my adjudication establish, together with Hugh the marquis and Burchard the count, my advocates, that all things which I shall establish remain inviolate for perpetual time. And in the first place I adjudge and bequeath, immediately after my death, my palace of Stazzona with its orchard and wood and appurtenances entire [0895B] to you, venerable father, and lord, lord archbishop of Milan, and to those who after you shall hold the bishopric of the Church of Milan, so that it remain for perpetual time without diminution in the power of the archbishops of Milan; for which I ask them once a year to perform the sacred rites for the repose of my soul. Likewise I bequeath and adjudge to the Church of Saint Eusebius, or to its bishopric, whereof I am unworthily bishop, four farmsteads of my right in the valley of Aosta, and two others in Verdezzo, all with their buildings and lands and rights pertaining to me, the aforesaid Bishop Atto, with the serfs and *aldii* of either sex, entire; so that those who after me shall preside over the said Church may, by title of usufruct only, do with their fruits, all the days of their life, whatever they will, yet without alienation [0895C] of the estate. But if they should alienate anything, let all the aforesaid come into the power of the holy Church of Ivrea; and let all my successors be bound to perform the sacred rites once a month, that God may have mercy on my soul for the things done in ignorance in the governance of the Church committed to me.

Likewise I adjudge and bequeath to the canons of the aforesaid holy Church the royal court with its lesser court, which are of my right, the aforesaid Bishop Atto's, with their buildings, lands and rights, living and dead, entire, so that from their revenues they may on the Sunday of Olives take a meal together, and the remainder be divided on the octave of Pentecost in equal portions among them, on which day they keep the anniversary for all the bishops of that holy Church of Vercelli; and I forbid [0895D] them all alienation; and if they shall have alienated it, let all come into the power of the Church of Turin. Likewise I will that immediately after my decease, in honor of the twelve apostles, twelve serfs of mine, the aforesaid Bishop Atto's, be set free, so that with their wives and children, with all their substance, they be free — even as now, so for then, I manumit and free them.

Likewise I adjudge and bequeath to the lord Aldeman, my kinsman, [0896A] archpriest of the holy Church of Milan, and to the cardinals and decuman priests, and to the clergy of the said Church, both those who now are and those who shall be in future, those four valleys of my right, the aforesaid Bishop Atto's, which are called Bellagio, Leventina, Biasca, and Intragna, with all their chapels, houses and lands, of whatever kind they be, with the servants and *aldii* of either sex, entire, so that they be perpetually in the power of the clergy of the said holy Church of Milan, whereof I was unworthy archdeacon. Whose revenues shall be divided thus: let the lord archpriest have as much as two cardinal priests; and let the cardinal priests, along with the primicerius of the decumans, each have as much as two decuman priests; and the cardinal deacons and subdeacons [0896B] as much as one decuman priest. But that portion which pertains to the cardinal priests, let the archpriest divide; that which pertains to the cardinal deacons and subdeacons, let it be divided by the archdeacon; and for the decumans let it be divided by their primicerius at his lodging. And all these things on this condition: that in perpetuity, on every first Monday of the Great Lent, the aforesaid archpriest and cardinals, primicerius and decumans, who shall be in office at the time, come with litanies and crosses to this basilica, where, before the bodies of the saints Ambrose, Protasius, and Gervasius, they shall celebrate the sacred rites for the souls of myself, and of the lord King Desiderius of good memory, and of Duke Ermenulf his father, and of Asprand and of Eberard his brother, my great-great-grandfather, the aforesaid Bishop Atto's, his son and of his other [0896C] sons. And likewise on the following Monday let the same be done before the body of Saint Satyrus, for the repose of my soul and of Count Guido of good memory, who was my great-grandfather, and of Atto also called Anscar, who was marquis, his son, who are entombed in the same church. Again let the same be done on the third following Monday, as above, and there, before the body of Saint Marcellina the virgin, let the sacred rites be performed for the souls of myself, and of Aldiger of good memory, otherwise Ermenulf, my father, and of his brothers resting in the same church. And on the first day, withdrawing from that same church, let them enter the church of Saint Nabor; on the second let them go to the basilica of the three kings; and on the third let them proceed to the church of Saint George, there where it is called "at the palace," and there let them make the kyrie and the rogations for the welfare of this city [0896D] and of all dwelling in it, and at the end let them say the requiem for all the departed. But whoever shall not be present at these three litanies, let him have nothing whatever, save if he be sick; and yet let him be bound to do the same on another day.

Likewise I adjudge and bequeath to the venerable lord Rupald, abbot of the monastery near that same basilica, and to his monastery, my court of Deliciano, with its chapel, and houses, and lands, and its rights, and the servants pertaining to me, the aforesaid Bishop Atto, entire; [0897A] yet on this condition, that the abbot himself with his monks, while the aforesaid cardinals and decumans are in the church of Saint Ambrose, go with their litanies to the church of Saint Mary Major situated within the city of Milan, where it is called "within the vineyard," and there perform the sacred rites for my soul, and for those of the lady Mary my mother of good memory, and of the lady Imilda my sister, buried there. On the second day let them do the same for the souls of the countess Felinda of good memory, my grandmother, and of her daughters; and on the third day let it likewise be done for the souls of Rodelinda my great-grandmother, and of all my departed. But if this shall not be done, let all the aforesaid things bequeathed to them belong to the lady Bertrada, abbess of the said monastery of Saint Mary Major. Likewise I adjudge and bequeath to the said venerable lady abbess Bertrada, [0897B] my brother's daughter, with her nuns and her monastery, five *mansi* of land of my right, the aforesaid Bishop Atto's, in the court of Cerdato, with the buildings, serfs, *aldii* and their households of either sex pertaining thereto, entire, that they may the more conveniently serve God, and once a month remember to pray that my soul may be loosed from its sins.

And all these things I, the aforesaid Bishop Atto, adjudge and do on this condition: that all the aforesaid cardinals, decumans, abbot, monks, abbess, and nuns, and their successors, male or female, jointly or severally, in whole or in part, may not in any manner alienate or seize upon the said valleys, courts, farmsteads, lands, serfs, servants, *aldii* of either sex; because it is my firm will [0897C] that all the aforesaid remain for perpetual time devoted to divine worship, for the repose of all my departed. Therefore I reverently ask you, venerable father, lord archbishop, and all who sit in this holy synod, that you lay excommunication and anathema upon all who shall violate this my adjudication in whole or in part.

This heard, the lord archbishop and the whole synod, on the part of God and of all the saints, anathematized whosoever by any contrivance whatever shall violate this adjudication of the venerable father the lord Atto, bishop of the holy Church of Vercelli; and let him who shall do so have his portion with Judas the traitor and Simon Magus in eternal gehenna, together with Satan and his devils. And all said: So be it, so be it, so be it. [0897D] This done, Bishop Atto himself said: Hear, all venerable Fathers; here I have disposed of what I was able to adjudge and dispose of according to my conscience; but the remainder of my substance, which is seen now to belong to me, I adjudge and bequeath to my nearer kinsmen, that they may do with it whatever they will, according to the disposition of their elders, and as the Lombard law disposes. Likewise I ask the holy father, the venerable pope, and the most clement lords the kings, that they deign by their letters to confirm this my adjudication.

Having heard these things, the lord Hugh the count and the lord Roger the bishop, the aforesaid envoys, interposing the authority of the lords [0898A] the kings and of the lord pope, ratified all these things and promised to have them confirmed. These matters accomplished, the same lord Bishop Atto, together with Hugh the marquis and Burchard the count, his advocates, said: This is my free will and my final adjudication. So help me God, amen. Done in the basilica of Saint Ambrose, pontiff and confessor, where his holy body rests.

+ I, Roger, humble bishop, legate sent by the most holy father the venerable Pope Marinus, have approved, confirmed, and subscribed this adjudication.

I, Hugh, count, legate sent by the lords Hugh and Lothair, most pious kings, have approved, confirmed, and with my own hand subscribed this adjudication.

[0898B]+ I, Olric, archbishop of the holy Church of Milan, have approved, confirmed, and with my own hand subscribed all things at which I was present above.

+ I, Atto, unworthy bishop of the sacred Church of Vercelli, have with my own hand subscribed for the confirming of this my adjudication.

+ I, Lincfred, bishop of Pavia, have approved and confirmed.

+ I, Notingh, bishop of Brescia, have subscribed:

## Testament (cont.)

+ I, Gezzo, bishop of the holy Church of Tortona, have subscribed with my own hand.

+ I, Bruning, bishop of Asti, have subscribed.

+ I, Riculf, bishop of Turin, have approved and subscribed.

+ Griffo, bishop of Aosta, has subscribed.

[0898C]+ I, Adalgisius, bishop of the holy Church of Acqui, have subscribed myself.

+ Mildo, bishop of the Church of Ventimiglia, has ratified it.

+ I, Sigifred, bishop of Parma, have subscribed.

+ John, bishop of Massa, has ratified it.

+ I, Aldeman, archpriest of the holy Church of Milan, have approved, and have set my hands to the ratifying of it.

+ Daipert, bishop of the holy Church of Cremona, has ratified it with his own hand.

+ I, Baldo, bishop of Chur, have subscribed.

+ Asmund, bishop of Ivrea, have ratified it with my own hand.

+ I, Daibert, bishop of Alba, have subscribed.

[0898D]+ Ingulf, bishop of Albenga, has ratified it.

+ I, Boso, bishop of Piacenza, have subscribed.

+ I, Guido, bishop of Modena, have approved and subscribed.

+ I, Lotherius, bishop of the Church of Mariana, have subscribed.

+ I, Hupald, humble abbot, have approved and subscribed.

The marks * * of the hands of Hugh the marquis, and of Burchard the count, advocates of the aforesaid venerable father the lord Bishop Atto, who have approved this adjudication, [0899A] and have set their hands to the confirming of it.

The marks ****** of the hands of Aripert, Olderic, John, Asprand, Burlus, and Cano, witnesses, and of a great many other persons who were called to this [n: ( ita cod. )].

I, Vualpert, humble archdeacon and chancellor of the holy Church of Milan and of the present sacred [n: ( ita cod. )] synod, by mandate of the above-written Fathers, have written, delivered, and subscribed this adjudication of the venerable father the lord Atto, bishop of Vercelli.

I, Lambert, notary of the sacred palace and envoy of the lords Hugh and Lothair, most pious kings, together with the above-written lord archdeacon, have delivered [0899B] and subscribed it.

I, Peter, who am called Rabbus, notary of the lord emperor Henry, have diligently collated the above-written adjudication of the lord Atto, bishop of Vercelli, pronounced by him in the synod of Milan and subscribed, as faithfully copied above by the below-written Bogerius Bonafides, notary, from the original of the aforesaid adjudication — which appears to have been secured with three seals, the first of which was that of the lords the kings, the second bearing Saints Peter and Paul, and the third bearing Saint Ambrose but almost consumed by age — with that original itself, for the most part decayed, so that it can scarcely and with difficulty be read; being asked so to do by [0900A] the venerable lord Ambrose, called of Vimercate, abbot of the monastery of Saint Ambrose, where his holy body rests; at the instance also of the lady Columba, abbess of the Monastero Maggiore of Milan; and this by mandate of the lord John, called of Rusca, honorable podestà of the city and commune of Milan, there being present the said Bonafides, T. Senago, Jo. Coalia, J. Canova, A. Lomatio, notaries, and Thomas called Crassus, and Rufinus Corbus, jurists, and Ossa de Ossis, Peter called Bellabucca, Comasinus de Cremis, John Marcellinus, Guido the viscount, as witnesses; and because I found it to agree, apart from the lettering more or less, I have subscribed with my own hand.

I, Tebald, who am called of Sunago, notary, have subscribed myself to this transcript because I found it faithful.

[0900B]I, John, who am called Coalia, notary of the sacred palace, was present at the aforesaid transcript, and because I found it to agree, as above, by mandate I have subscribed myself.

I, John, who am called of Canova, imperial notary, have faithfully collated this transcript, and [because] I found it uniform with the original, I have subscribed myself.

I, Anselarus, who am called of Lomatio, notary, have with the above-said notaries examined this transcript, and because I found it to agree, I have subscribed myself.

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