This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...vol. xxxiv, p. 431; "presa in scalido jacente" (878), ibid., vol. xvn, p. 244; "quan-tumcumque in ispa villa per ordinacione dominica de squalido apprehendimus" (909), Indice de documentos del monasterio de Sahagun, p. 109; "nos illut de-If we now turn to Italy, we find here the royal domain expressed by gualdo or galo. Italy had long lacked extensive public lands fit for colonisation,1 hence the state could come into possession of territory only through its abandonment by owners, that is, of territory ex squalido. Indeed, in the documents of the Benedictine Order at Benevento,1 which go back to the sixth century, we frequently hear of the domain in which abbeys are founded under the name of gualdo and galo.3 Since there is mention of a forest which lies in the galo, the two are not identical and galo does not mean "forest," but only includes the word. We similarly hear of squalido de gente Barbarica manu propria cum pueris nostris adprehendimuB tam cultam quam etiam incultum" (909), R. Escalona, Historia... de Saha-gun, p. 379; "Suprafactum locum in vetustatem reductum, p ne obliuioni deditum, vepribus, seu densissimis siluis opertum, etqui magnis arboribus ex immensitate annorum adumbratum, auxiliante Domino cum fratribus re-stauraui, aedificia instruxi, vinea et pomares plantaui, terras de scalido eieci, horta, et omnia quae ad vsum Monasterii pertinent imposui... omnem soll-tudinem, omnemque industriam, erga supradictum terenum exercens, Ec-clesiam Sancti Petri, quam dudum restauraueram, miris reedificaminibus rebol-uens ampliaui, et in melius, ut potui erexi" (915), Yepes, Coronica, vol. IV, p. 447 b; "neque pascere neque scindere uel scaliare nisi de uolunta prions jamdicti" (1036), Coleccion... de Aragon, vol. i, p. 13;...