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This is a collection of records of donations and exchanges of property belonging to the monastery of Saint Emmeram at Regensburg, compiled by Anamod. It opens with a dedicatory poem in elegiac couplets praising a bishop as humble, gentle and firm with the wicked, followed by a prose preface addressed to a bishop A., in which Anamod, his humble servant, explains that he has gathered many scattered sheets of traditions and exchanges into one book for him. The records then follow in numbered chapters, naming donors, bishops, advocates, places and measures of land, such as an exchange in 874 between Count Rodolt and Bishop Ambricho.
Cartularies of this kind preserve the legal memory of a religious house, and the Saint Emmeram traditions are an important source for the history of Bavaria in the Carolingian period. They record place names, personal names, landholdings and the procedures of property transfer, making them valuable for social, economic and linguistic history. Anamod’s work is also an early example of the effort to organise loose documents into a book.
About this edition. The Latin text comes from Corpus Corporum, the Latin text repository of the University of Zurich (edition: Jacques-Paul Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 129, Parisiis 1853), reused with attribution for non-commercial purposes (CC BY-NC-SA). Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.