Concilium Constantiense — Acta

Minutes of the Council of Konstanz, anno Domini MCCCCLXXXVII — recovered scraps
Editor’s note. The present document is reconstructed from seven non-adjacent fragments held in three separate archives. The original minutes are missing. The fragments have been variously burned, scraped, copied, and (in two cases) deliberately defaced. The remainder is transcribed below in the order of folio survival, not of original sequence.
[folio 2r, partial]

in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, the seven brethren gathered in the hall of █████, the doors having been bolted from within at the eleventh hour and not opened again until the [———]

[folio 4v, partial]

… the question whether the Vas Patens be one or many, the brethren declined to vote, holding that the question [———————] ████████ and not a fit subject for the present chamber …

[folio 7r, near total loss]

████████████████ [———————————] Frater Eustacius, in his rising, did remove his vestment and ██████; the company did not record what was said in answer.

[folio 9v, intact margin only]

not to be spoken of out of doors,
nor in doorways,
nor by those who have eaten of the beet.

[folio 11r, fire damage]

… on the morning of St. Macarius, three of the seven did remove themselves to the abbey of [———], having sworn upon the tongue of the bell that they would ████ the ███████ nor break bread with any vegetable smaller than a clenched fist …

[colophon, folio 14, complete]

Quae hic dicta sunt, dicta non sunt.
What is said here was not said.

Provenance. Fragments held at: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana (Cod. Vat. lat. 7741, f. 2r & 4v); Stadtarchiv Konstanz (Bestand 1487/IIIa, f. 7r & 11r); private collection, sealed, Linglestown PA (f. 9v & 14). A reader, identified only as Q., is reported to have read the complete minutes at the Vatican in the spring of 1612 and to have walked into the sea at Civitavecchia on the evening of the same day.
— recovered scraps end here —