1283_MC2601

Era
Vol. 4: A 1209 usque ad 1300
Date
January 26, 1283
Place
Regestum

The Great Council of Venice deliberates on the offered subjection of the Commune of Piran and decides to accept it.

Source
The original register of the Great Council that covered this period, reg. 5: Luna, Zaneta, Pilosus, lost the first sixteen folios, which featured this decree as well. Luckily, a 17th-century copy of this register exists which covers this period and features the copy of this decree:
B = Venice, Archivio di Stato di Venezia, Maggior Consiglio, Deliberazioni, reg. 6: Luna, Zaneta, Pilosus (copia) I parte, fols. 21v–22v; 17th-century copy of reg. 5.
Previous Editions
Roberto Cessi (ed.), Deliberazioni del Maggior Consiglio di Venezia, vol. 3 (Bologna 1934), doc. 81, pp. 17–18.
FIM Edition
Diplomatic edition based on B, including the cases of letter -ę, introduced by the 17th-century copyist.
Transcription

Die vigesima sexta iannuariia

<Positum in Commune>

Capta fuit pars quod recipiatur terra Pirani sub nostro dominio, sicut postulaverunt ambaxatores Pirani, habentes ad hoc plenum mandatum. Fuerunt decem novem de non, quadraginta noven non sinceri, centum quinquaginta tres de sic. Quorum pętitio hęc:

“Ista est pętitio quam vobis domino duci et vestro Consilio facimus nos ambaxatores Communis Pirani et hominum Pirani:
[1] Primo pętimus quod per dominationem vestram et per Commune Venetiarum dare et concedere vellitis terrę nostrę Pirani potestatem perpetualem, secundum quod facitis aliis terris subiectis vestro Communi Venetiarum, cui potestati dare volumus omni anno pro suo salario libras sexcentas Venetiarumb pravorum de illa moneta quę per tempora curret in dicta terra Pirani, cui etiam dabimus domum pro habitatione sua et suę familię et insuper prata pro facere fieri fenum pro suis equis.
[2] Qui potestas habere debeat equos tres et servitores quattuor;
[3] et quod ipsa banna, quę hinc retro erant potestatum dictę terrę, pervenire debeant in Commune Pirani.
[4] Item quod dictus potestas non possit nec debeat accipere per se, nec dare, nec consentire ad dandum alicui personę modo aliquo vel ingenio de terris et possessionibus quę pertineant Communi Pirani, exceptis civibus Pirani vel eorum hęredibus qui hinc retro stetissent per decem annos cives dictę terrę Pirani.
[5] Item de omnibus offensionibus, rixis et condempnationibus factis per tempora pręterita dictus potestas aliquo modo non debeat se impedire, excępto tamen quod dictus potestas libertatem habeat facere reddire in Commune Pirani territorium dicti Communis vel possessiones ad dictum Commune pertinentes sine aliqua pęnna vel condempnatione facta vel facienda in illos qui tenuissent vel tenerent eas.
[6] Item quod teneantur observare omnes sententias vel pignorationes iuste datas per pręteritum dominum dictę terrę.”

Et predicta omnia fiant, salvis omnibus rationibus omnium personarum.

Critical apparatus

asic B.  bsic B: pro Venecialium.

Medieval Recollections

The official ratification of the subjection of Piran promulgated by Venetian Doge Giovanni Dandolo on the same day – edited here as doc. 1283_SP.

Selected Bibliography
Camillo de Franceschi, Origine e sviluppo del Comune di Pirano (Poreč 1924), pp. 44–45.
Editor's Notes

De Franceschi (cited above) made several errors when interpreting this Venetian acceptance of Piran's subjection. First, the acceptance was promulgated by the Great Council and not by the Senate. Second, the date of this acceptance is January 26 and not January 23 as De Franceschi has it. Finally, the doge ratified the acceptance on the same day as the Great Council officially accepted the subjection (see doc. 1283_SP).

How to Cite
First citation: Josip Banić (ed.), Fontes Istrie medievalis, vol. 4: A 1209 usque ad 1300, doc. 1283_MC2601, fontesistrie.eu/1283_MC2601 (last access: date).
Subsequent citations: FIM, 4: doc. 1283_MC2601.