Charter: Bulgarian Medieval Documents: The Second Bulgarian Empire 1203-09-01_tpq_Kaloyan
Signature: 1203-09-01_tpq_Kaloyan
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After 1 September 1203 (probably end of 1203)
Tsar Kaloyan informs the Pope that his messenger had reached Bulgaria and brought the palium to Archbishop Basil, who was declared the Primate of all Bulgaria and Valachia. Tsar asks for another embassy that would bring him an imperial crown and he plans to send his confidant Blasius, now Bishop of Braničevo, with rich gifts to Rome. Current repository:
Rome, Archivum secretum Vaticanum, Reg. Vat. 5, fol. 136v–137r (n° 6).
Material: Paper.
Dimensions: n/a
Editions:
- Theiner, Vetera monumenta Slavorum I, ep. 46, 29–30; Migne, PL CCXV, coll. 290–292, l. VII, ep. 6; Dujčev, Prepiskata, n° XVIII, 47–48.; Dujčev, Knižnina II, n° VIII, 16–17 (fragm. edition), 17–20 (Bulg. translation); Acta Innocentii PP. III (1198–1216), n° 13, 572; Latinski izvori III, n° 19, 338–340 (edition and Bulg. translation); Bălgarskata literatura i knižnina, 185–187 (Bulg. translation); Register Papst Innocenz’ III, vol. 7, n° 6, 18–20; Petkov, Voices of Medieval Bulgaria, 225–226 (Eng. translation).
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