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E00407: The Liber Pontificalis, written in Latin in Rome in the 530s, and re-edited before 546, recounts the founding and endowment of a basilica of *John the Baptist (S00020) in Albanum, close to Rome, by the emperor Constantine (312-337).
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posted on 2015-04-22, 00:00 authored by robertLiber Pontificalis 34.30
For the following passage it is impossible to reconstruct the text of the first edition.
Second edition
Hisdem temporibus fecit Augustus Constantinus basilicam in civitatem Albanense sancti Iohannis Baptistae, ubi posuit hoc:
patenam argenteam, pens. lib. XXX;
scyphum argenteum deauratum, pens. lib. XII;
calices argenteos ministeriales X, pens. sing. lib. III;
amas argenteas II, pens. sing. lib. III;
amas argenteas II, pens. sing. lib. XX.
There follows a list of the endowments of the basilica of John the Baptist.
'30. Then the emperor Constantine built in the city of Albanum the basilica of St John the Baptist, where he placed the following:
a silver paten weighing 30 lb;
a silver-gilt scyphus weighing 12 lb;
10 silver service chalices each weighing 3 lb;
2 silver amae each weighing 20 lb.'
There follows a list of the endowments of the basilica of John the Baptist.
Text: Duchesne 1886, 184-185. Translation: Davis 2010, 24, lightly modified. Summary: Robert Wiśniewski.
For the following passage it is impossible to reconstruct the text of the first edition.
Second edition
Hisdem temporibus fecit Augustus Constantinus basilicam in civitatem Albanense sancti Iohannis Baptistae, ubi posuit hoc:
patenam argenteam, pens. lib. XXX;
scyphum argenteum deauratum, pens. lib. XII;
calices argenteos ministeriales X, pens. sing. lib. III;
amas argenteas II, pens. sing. lib. III;
amas argenteas II, pens. sing. lib. XX.
There follows a list of the endowments of the basilica of John the Baptist.
'30. Then the emperor Constantine built in the city of Albanum the basilica of St John the Baptist, where he placed the following:
a silver paten weighing 30 lb;
a silver-gilt scyphus weighing 12 lb;
10 silver service chalices each weighing 3 lb;
2 silver amae each weighing 20 lb.'
There follows a list of the endowments of the basilica of John the Baptist.
Text: Duchesne 1886, 184-185. Translation: Davis 2010, 24, lightly modified. Summary: Robert Wiśniewski.
History
Evidence ID
E00407Saint Name
John the Baptist : S00020Saint Name in Source
Iohannes BaptistaRelated Saint Records
Type of Evidence
Literary - OtherLanguage
- Latin