Pope Pelagius II confirms Grado as the new metropolitan see of the ecclesiastical province of Venetia et Histria (11th-century forgery).
Pelagius urbis Romęa episcopus Elyęb Aquilegiensi patriarchęc.
Convenit apostolico moderaminid pia religione pollentibus benivola compassione succurreree et poscentiumf animis ing hac re devotione impartireh consensumi. Ex hoc enim, lucri potissimum a Conditore omniumj procul dubio promerebimur, si venerabilia loca, opportunok transmutata tempore, nostro fuerint studio ad meliorem sine dubio statum producta.
Igitur, quia petisti a nobis per missionisl tuę venerandęm fraternitatisn breviao, consentientibusp in eisq suffragraneisr tibi episcopis, quatenus Gradense castrum totius Venetię fieris et Istrię metropolim ad regendam scilicet ecclesiam atque cum Dei timore dispensandam, emissa preceptione, concedere deberemus.
Quapropter vesti compatientes meroris necessitudinit, immo et iamu rabiem furentium perpendentes Longobardorumv, inclinati precibus vestris, per huius precepti seriem suprascriptum castrum Gradense totius Venetię fieri cum omnibus vestrę ecclesię pertinentibus etiamw Istrię metropolim perpetuo confirmamus, statuentes quapropter apostolica autoritate sub interminatione futuri iudicii nulli licere nostrorum sucessorum vel alii cuilibet hęc quę a nobisx decreta sunt pia in quoquam destruere aut convellere quęy potius firma stabilitate inconvulsa manere diffinimusz, atque sub anathematis vinculo perpetuis temporibus observanda.
Quam ob rem hortor te sempera' relevareb' oppressos, semperc' corripere inquietos ut zizaniad' Dominicam non possit suffocare messem.
Gratia domini nostri Iesu Christi et omnise' caritasf' Dei sit semper vobiscum.
Data XII kalendas maiig', imperante Tiberio II Constantino augusto.
a) Rome C; -e loco -ę undique C. b) Helie C. c) patriarce C. d) moderamine C. e) subocurrere C. f) poscentum C. g) ab C. h) impertire C. i) assensum est C. j) seq. id est Deo add. C. k) oportuno C. l) inmissionis C. m) veneramde C. n) confrater C. o) breviarum C. p) conscentientibus C. q) in eis] om. C. r) sic B; suffraganeis C. s) seq. immo add. C. t) necessitudinis C. u) om. C. v) Langobardorum C. w) et C. x) seq. intencione add. C. y) om. C. z) diffinimus C. a') supra C. b') seq. senper add. C. c') om. C. d') ex insania C. e') om. C. f') karitas C. g') mai C.
Cf. the acts of the Synod of Grado.
The document is a clear forgery, drawn up in the mid-11th century based on an authentic charter issued by the papal chancery under Pope Pelagius II, most probably a praeceptum de concedendo monasterio according to the formulae (Kehr, "Rom und Venedig," pp. 20-22). The falsified privilege was later inserted into the contaminated (or completely forged) acts of the Synod of Grado (see the edition here).