In addition to a discussion of the Bedan martyrology and an analysis of the names contained in the necrology, it includes a description of the other parts of the chapter book, including identifications of items within the capitular homiliary, and the incipit and explicit of each homily. [...] What is known of its history can be summarized under five points: 1) its extant books; 2) the occasional records of the eco- nomic activity of the priory, both with respect to its neighbors and as part of the economic network of Montecassino; 3) the association of the noble family of the Marsicans with the priory; 4) the relics of two eleventh-century hermit saints buried in the chapel at San Nico [...] Three codices — a chapter book, an Evangeliary, and a canon law collection, all written in the eleventh century and all in Beneventan 6During the reign of Abbot Atenulf (1011-1022), the monk Adam, custos of Montecas- sino, received the donation of the church of San Nazario, which was in the vicinity of modern Casale, near Atina in the province of Frosinone. [...] In the sequence of papal census records known as the Rationes decimarum, Cicogna is recorded for the year 1325, but is not assessed in the next record, for the years 1358-1360.34 Following the census for the landholding of Montecassino in 1358, there is a note by the authors of the census to explain the inability of so many to pay their tithes. [...] Whatever the role of Gumizo and Januarius may have been in the life of the priory, the translation of their relics to the basilica of St.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- Abbreviations 10
- INTRODUCTION 12
- 1. THE HISTORY OF SAN NICOLA DELLA CICOGNA 12
- Survey of the Evidence 12
- Gumizo and Januarius 23
- Additions by Peter the Deacon to Desiderius's Account 24
- 2. CONTENTS OF THE CHAPTER BOOK 31
- Codicological and paleographical features 33
- Various Capitular Ordines 35
- Capitular Homilies 37
- Rule of St. Benedict 51
- Rule of St. Benedict of Aniane, or 'Collectio capitularis' 52
- Epistle of Abbot Theodemar of Montecassino to Charlemagne 53
- How order ought to be followed by monks living in monasteries under the Rule of Saint Benedict, or 'Memoriale qualiter' 53
- 3. THE MARTYROLOGY/NECROLOGY OF SAN NICOLA DELLA CICOGNA 54
- Martyrology 54
- Necrology 69
- 4. RULES OF THE EDITION 79
- MARTYROLOGIUM/NECROLOGIUM SANCTI NICOLAE DE CICONIA 82
- Appendix 1: Index nominum 146
- Appendix 2: Register of Documents 158
- Bibliography 166
- Index 186
- A 186
- B 186
- C 186
- D 187
- E 187
- F 187
- G 187
- H 187
- I 187
- J 187
- L 187
- M 188
- N 188
- O 188
- P 188
- R 188
- S 188
- T 189
- U 189
- V 189