2751

RRR: 
2751
YEAR: 
1249
text: 
December 12. Tyre. Inventory of the possessions of the Genoese commune inside and outside the city of Tyre, carried out with the use of witnesses on the orders of Simon Malocellus and Ogerius Ricius, consules Ianuensium in Syria ac vicecomites pro comuni. I. IN THE CITY OF TYRE. A church, with an adjoining house with 3 stables (stadia). A small garden (jardinetum), adjoining on the north the house of Thomas Parcanua, on the west the houses of Citodara and Raimundus de Nicia, on the south the house of the commune of Genoa and on the east (oriens) the house of Iacobus Mussus. 5 houses and a guastina held with them, adjoining on the west the house of Setedaria, on the south the house of Tarsia, on the north the garden of Iohannes venetus, on the east the houses of Guillielmus Mussus and Gonella. Behind the commune’s portica (lobia), 6 houses adjoining on the west the house of Tarsia, on 2 sides the public way and on the fourth a private road. Behind the said portico, 3 houses, adjoining on the west the house of the archbishop, on the north and south the public way, and on the other side the commune’s portico. Next to the said portico, adjoining a volta on 2 sides and on the south and west the house of Iacobus Mussus. A house next to the commune’s palacium, adjoining on the west the commune’s palacium, on another side the house of the archbishop and before and to a side the public way. The commune’s palacium, with a press (massara) and a volta behind it. It adjoins on the east a house of the Knights Templar (or the Templum Domini), on the south the houses of Henricus de Torta and Philippus Camellus, on the west the house of the archbishop and on the east (oriens) the house of the commune of Genoa, with before it the public way. The platea of the commune’s portico with the buildings that have begun to be erected, adjoining on 3 sides the public way and at the back the commune’s house. A guastina which once was the oven of the commune of Genoa, adjoining on 3 sides the way, and on the north the house of Baldoinus Arminius. A house bought for the commune by a certain Rosa, adjoining the back of the palacium of the commune of Genoa, with on one side the house of the commune of Genoa, before it the public way, and on the other side the house of Georgius de Capellana. 2 adjoining bath houses in the ruga auri fabrorum, which adjoin to the east the house of Iohannes aurifaber. A third part of the entry duties charged by the cathena of Tyre. The house of Petrus Pennesinpe, which the consuls’ predecessors accepted, adjoining on 2 sides the house of the archbishop, on another the houses of Ramondus Soldanus and the Knights Templar (or the Templum Domini), on the south the house of the Jews, on the west the house of Symon and on the north the public way. II. OUTSIDE THE CITY OF TYRE. A field (campus terre) called Lo Aracha, where is located the press (massara) of the commune of Genoa, next to the aqueduct on the east, containing a great pillar of the great aqueduct and bounded to the north by land of the Venetians, divided from it by a ditch running to the west towards the sea) infra quas coherentias est fossatum in medio versus occidentem, usque in mare, and to the south by a mill of the Venetians and the land of the archbishop called Tyronum. A petia of flat (plana) land by (circa) Tyronum, which extends as far as the commune’s mill, next to the land of Iacobus Cayme. Within the land called Lo Racha, itemized above, is water, three parts of which is dammed. The water belongs to the commune, although it is dammed by the commune’s lords. A pecia de terra, which is between the mill of the commune of Genoa and [the mill of] the commune of the Venetians, and adjoins above the land called Tyronum and below the public way. The consul found the mill of the commune and the casale of the commune called Sanctus Georgius, adjoining to the south a casale called Nobles, to the east a hill (montanea) [belonging to] Iacobus Cayme, which is called Farachia, to the north another hill [belonging to] Iacobus Cayme, containing other hills, and to the west partly by the land of a casale called Sechilia, extending as far as the casale itself, and partly by the land of the commune. A flat land (terra plana) called Maxuca, in which there was once a garden, adjoining on the east the aqueduct, on the north the public way, on the west the press (massara) of the king, and on the south the aqueduct. A waste garden surrounded by a ruined wall, adjoining on the east and north lands of the king and of the monks of Sancta Maria, and on the west the road to Sidon. Witnesses: Bonusvasallus Nepitella; Adalardus etiam Judex; Iacobus Mussus; Alexander consul pro comuni in Tyro; Iohannes Grassus; Guillielmus Gafforius; and others. The inventory was drawn up at the orders of the consuls by Solimanus de Murtedo sacri palacii notarius.
Sources: 
Desimoni, ‘Quatre titres’, pp. 222-24, no. 3; RRH 1184

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