Letter 1037: I need your help in compelling Stephen, who holds episcopal office, to submit himself to the judgment he has been...

To Malchus, Bishop of Dalmatia. [Summary heading: He compels Bishop Stephen to undergo judgment, and orders that the judgment be carried out.] Gregory to Malchus, Bishop of Dalmatia. John, a most eloquent man, counselor of the most excellent lord George, Prefect throughout Italy, has informed us that he has certain disputes of a financial nature against Stephen, bishop of the city of Scodra, and he asks that a judgment ought to be held between him and the said bishop. For this reason we have taken care to admonish your Fraternity by the present injunction, that you may compel the aforesaid bishop to come to choose a court of judgment. And whatever shall have been determined by sentence between the aforesaid John and the magnificent man, and the often-mentioned bishop, before the elected judges, do not omit to bring it to its effect, so that both the plaintiff may give thanks for the justice obtained, and the one summoned, when he is brought to the hearing, may make no complaint against himself concerning injustice inflicted. [The remainder of the source record consists of OCR-garbled editorial apparatus and footnotes from the Patrologia Latina edition, not letter text: notes on the imprisonment of clergy before Boniface VIII, that a monastery served them as a prison; an editorial note (Epist. XXXVIII, alias 36) that Malchus then administered the patrimony of the Apostolic See in Dalmatia, that Maximus -- who had invaded the church of Salona -- falsely charged that Gregory held him in custody where he died for inability to pay, a charge Gregory refuted in Book IV, Letter 47; a geographical note on the Dalmatian peoples, reduced to a province after the First Dalmatian War and later enlarged by the addition of Liburnia, extending from the Liburnian or Flanatic gulf as far as the Drin, with the editor (Gussanvillaeus) confessing he does not know which see Malchus held nor whether his name derives from the province of Dalmatia; and a textual note that Senecio, bishop, subscribed to the Council of Ephesus, with variant readings "Scodrensis"/"Scodensis" in the manuscripts. (...) This apparatus is not part of the letter and contains no recoverable additional letter content.]

AD MALCAUM EPISCOPUM DALMATILE. Stephanum episcopum a1 judicium compellat, et | judicutxm ſugrit exsequatur. Gregorius * Malcho episcopo Þ Dalmatie. Joannes vir eloquentissimas, consiliarius viri ex- cellentissimi domni Georgii prefecti per ltaliam, in- Sinuavit nobis contra Stephanum episcopum © Sco- drensis civitatis, quoramdam $e negatiorum habere controver3ias, et petit inter eum et $e judicium de- bere eonsistere. Proplerea fraternilatem tram pra- quod = $enti prieception2 curavimus admonendam, at pre- dictum episcopum ad eligendum compellas venire judicium. Et quidquid inter preevictum Joannem vi- dia clerici quandaque detincbantur. Nec enim eos ante Bonifacium VIII in ergastulis et cust»diariis ma» cerabant ; sed monasterium erat eis pro carcere, in- fra, epist. 59, nune G61, Gu5saxv. fee verba in septis eccles. absunt al omnibus quns videre licuit Mss., que t1men, ut nole Gussany. parceremus, Censui- mus relinquenda. EvrisT. XXX VILL (AL. 36). — * Patrimonium sedis aposLolice in Dalmatia tunc procurahat. Malchns, ut liquet ex epist. 22 Ib. m. Eum a Gregorio iniigne habitum, et in cu$todia occismnn, cum Solvendo non esse!, calumniatus ſuciat Maximus qui Salonitanam ecclesiam invaseral, quam criminationemn diluit Gre* D gorius, lib. 1v, epist. 47. Dalmatz populi, quz- posl primum bellum Dalma- licum in provinciam redacta es ; processu yero tem- poris, adhibita Liburpia, crevil, et a Sinu Liburnico Seu Flanatico. ad Dritonem usque proteusa est. Quis ſurrit Malchus ile Dalmatien>is iguoratur, nisi v0 men hab.erit ab ipsa Dalmaliz provincia, nod pro- babile el, in qua erat episcopus, Sed cujus Sedis NeSCIO, GUSSANVY. Justiniavam nominavit, ad cam dignitatem eveuk Corcilio Epbesinoe Subscrip>it Senecio episcopus Toxtws Grodpomg. GUSSANV. In ung Vatic. et omnibus Norm. legitur Scodensis. ; 493 EPISTOLARUM LIB. I. — INDICT. IX. — EPIST. XLI. 494 rum magniſicum, et sxpe ſatum episcopum electo- A rabilis episcopi Paulini peregrinationis onera rele- 1um ſuerit sententia definitum, ad effectum perdu- cere non omillas, ZYS ut et actor de consecua ju- Slitia gratias reſerat, ct pulsatus cum ad cognitio- nem deducitur, nihil contra $e de illata injuslitia conqueratur. 2 EPISTOLA XXNIX. AD ANTHEMIUM SUBDIACONUM. De neglectis pauperibus eum arguit. Domnis Pateric, Palating et V iviane largum et liberale subsidium.” | Ofſerri jubet. Gregorius Anthemio subdiacono. Discedenti tibi mandavimus, et postmodum ® prae- ceptis discurrentibus injunxigse me memini, ut cu- ram pauperum gereres. El si quos illic egere cogno- sceres, Scripts recurrentibus indicares, et vix de pancis hee facere curasli, Volo autem ut domng © Palatinz reliete Urbici, $0lidos viginti, et tritici modios trecentos. Domnz Vivianz relic Felicis, Solidos viginti, et tritici modios Lrecentos. Qui om- nes simul octoginta $0lidj in wis rationibus impu- tentur. Summam vero pensionis $1b ſestinatione ad- ducito, et ad paschalem diem, Domino auxiliante, occurrito, (Cf. Joan. Diac. l. n, c. 55.) EPISTOLA' XL. AD FELICEM EPISCOPUM MESSANENSENM. Ut Paulinus peregrinus episcopus sancti Theodori mo- nasterium regat. Gregorius Felici episcopo Messanens1. Et libi gratum conlidimus, $i fratris tui viri vene- EeisT. XXXIX (Al. 37). — *® Hoc est, quam amis$am pulamus. Laiinis amitam <ignifien. Addo et Carnotengem San- cti Petri Ms. Cod cem ic habere, Paterie amite mee. Gus8anvit. Hexc non legerat vir doctus, cum in Vita sancti Gregorii auctore Joan. Diacono ipse retinuit vitiosam jilam lectionem, Paterickie nice. Alamen in Joannis Diaconi Mss3. .» $I) consuluisset, legisset Paterice thie meg. © Hoc intelligendum videtur non de cerla ad cal- ceos 80lum ementos, sed et in victus ac veslitus $ub- Sidium pensione. Sic Leo HI, epist. 9 : Qui robis eum collandant, hoc per muiera et calciaria ſaciunt. Sane ad puerorum calceos cur tot Solidi? et quid quadringenti tritici modi ? Eveisr, XL (Af. 58). — * Idem epistola sequenti. S.c >uum cuique jus as$eritur, nec in aliorum pos- aianys ullus involat. In £ynodo Gangrenzl, can, 6,7,8 : Kara R ko TOY Eengx' Ws RAGE {W179 Rapert2g Tov Two fy. Antivchen., C. 9; EZouoiav ev Ths £42700 NYpo zinc. CoOncil. Hy 3. ea. 5 Mugs ev7 ety 755 trnning. Loquitur de metropoli- ls qui mart diatace fimb tas Suas. In Ephesino, +, ne Sanclorum Patrum canones pre'ereantur, reque SUM Spell adminlratonis rerum S:Cra- ruw | otentiz Seculatis typhus irrepal, SenSlingque epistola C $int eo duce omnipotenti ventur, utfejus regimine communi mercede beatl Theodori monaslerium in Civiiale tua ſundatum stu- diosius onnipotenti Dev deserviat. Quod cliam te voluisse ſacere, jam ejus relatione didicimus. Ideo- que rectori patrimonii nostri priecepimus, ut mona- chos monasterii memorali ZHYY episcopi perquisitos ad unum congreget, et in eodem monasterio eum iis qui nunc ibi sunt collocare non differat, quatenus co rectore dignius animarum $uarum curam exerceant. Quam rem venerationi tuz innotescendam previdi- mus, * ne 1e omiss0 aliquid in tua contristeris dic» cesi ordinari.