The consuls and the people of Pula write to the patriarch of Aquileia Ulrich II, informing him that they are aware of the emperor’s arrival (in the vicinity of Venice) and that the imperial assembly will be convened on May 22; therefore, they ask him to take up with the emperor their complaints against the Venetians, who treat them as their subjects.
Venerabili in Christo patri et domino Ǒ[dalrico] Dei gratia sancte A[quilegensis] ęcclesię patriarche et Apostolice Sedis legato Polenses consules et populus cum debita devotione fidele servitium.
Benignitati vestre notum fore cupimus, quod nos adventum domini imperatoris et presentem curiam in festo Sancte Helene, [prout]a divulgatum fuerat, expectantisb ibidem legatos nostros destinare parabamus et Dei auxilio et vestro de oppresionibus quas a Ven[e]tisc sustinemus, videlicet de fidelitate quam a nobis assidue deposcunt et de exercitu quem nobis tamquam subditis suis imponunt, evadere per imperialem misericordiam sperabamus.
Cet[er]umd ex quo curia[m]e prefatum terminum prevenire cognovimus nec tam subditof nos posse ad hoc preparari persensimus, presentes litteras ad vos mittere decrevimus, rogantes quatinus Dei amore et honore vestro pro nobis, secundum quod sapientia vestra conveniens extimabit, apud dominum imperatorem intercedatis et, si constiterit Venetos gratiam eius fore adeptos vel in eo permanere proposito, de tesauri[s]g ecclesiarum vestrarum et teh supradictis gravaminibus, que nobis inferunt, eius deposci misericordiam non omittatis.
De nobis procul dubio credendo, quod rebus et personis vestro semper honori et servitio devotissimi existem[us]i.
a) om. T; em. Plechl. b) sic T: pro expectantes, sicut em. Pez et Plechl. c) a Venetis] aventis T; a Venetis em. Pez et Plechl. d) cetum T; ceterum em. Pez et Plechl. e) curia T; curiam em. Pez et Plechl. f) sic T: pro subito, sicut em. Pez et Plechl. g) tesauri T; tesauris em. Pez et Plechl. h) sic T: pro de, sicut em. Pez et Plechl. i) existem T; existemus em. Pez et Plechl.
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