Oliva 48-49
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[48. FORMA CONFIRMATIONIS ROMANE ECCLESIE]

[48.1] Et quia in tractatu priuilegiorum multa|[77vb] posui exordia, que modica possunt uariatione in confirmationibus poni, idcirco uitando prolixitatem unam integraliter confirmationem secundum formam ecclesie Romane huic operi annotabo.
rubr. om. CMVPTB       quia om. PT       multa: inserta PT       exordia om. B       uariatione possunt tr. B       confirmationibus: priuilegiis B       idcirco: ergo etc. B       uitando: in tanto T       uitando--annotabo om. B

[49. CONFIRMATIO PRO EPISCOPO ELECTO]

[49.1] "Innocentius episcopus seruus seruorum Dei, dilecto filio .H.320 Bononiensi electo, salutem et apostolicam benedictionem."
rubr. absit CMVPT De confirmatione alicuius electi B       Innocentius: nnocentius TMB (rubricator om. i)       episcopus om. PT       Dei om. C
[49.2] "Suscepti officii dignitas et pietas nos edocent et inducunt, quod deuotos et humiles filios propensius diligamus eorum iustis petitionibus annuendo, ut gratia et fauore apostolico premuniti de benignitate sedis apostolice glorientur et sacrosanctam Romanam ecclesiam esse matrem unicam recognoscant, que illos a prauorum incursibus pretuetur et quemlibet proprio facit iure manere contemptum."
sedis rep. V       glorientur: clorientur V       ecclesiam om. B       iure facit tr. B       manere contemptum: esse contentum B
[49.3] "Hinc est, dilecte in Domino fili, quod petitionem tuam equam attendentes et fauorabilem electionem, quam de te nuper Bononiense capitulum fecit, litteris apostolicis confirmamus."
fili: filii MTB       quod tr. B ante dilecte
[49.4] "Si quis autem hanc nostre confirmationis paginam ausu temerario uiolare presumpserit, indignationem omnipotentis Dei et beatorum apostolorum Petri et Pauli se nouerit incursum."321
omnipotentis Dei: Dei et omnipotentis B       nouerit: noluerit Pac noluit PT
[49.5] "Datum etc."
Datum om. B

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320 Henricus de Fratta, bishop of Bologna (1213-1240), on which see LORENZO PAOLINI art. "Della Fratta, Enrico" in DBI 37 (1989) 1-5. Although Gerardus Ariosti was the newly elected bishop of Bologna when the Oliva was written--close to the end of the twelfth century---this initial was updated in all manuscripts from 'G.' to 'H.' fifteen years later, because Gerard had finally been forced to resign in disgrace. For the deposition of Gerardus Ariosti (bishop of Bologna 1198-1213), see LORENZO PAOLINI "L'evoluzione di una funzione ecclesiastica: l'arcidiacono e lo Studio a Bologna nel XIII secolo" Studi medievali n.s. 29 (1988) 129-172 at 139. PAOLINI's discussion of the charges made against Gerard does not include the supporting evidence of Boncompagnus 3.5.1, which details how Gerard 'stole' his episcopal election in 1198, with the help of the canon Bonaguisa. However, that election account may well be entirely fictive, recast in the light of Gerard's 1213 deposition. Henricus de Fratta must have been present at the public readings of the Boncompagnus in 1215 and 1226.

321 A modified version of Briefkontextschlußform 20, Die Register Innocenz III edd. OTHMAR HAGENEDER and ANTON HAIDACHER (Graz-Cologne 1964) 1.xlvi.

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