The Breviarium sancti Lulli (aka Brevarium Lulli) is a list of the various properties claimed by the Hersfeld Abbey in Bad Hersfeld in the now federal state of Hesse.
The list refers to the ownership as of the time of the founding of the abbey in the days of Archbishop Lullus (710 – 786). It is part of the Hersfeld Capitulary – Liber de Libertatibus Locorum Hersfeldensium.
The Georg Landau edition from 1865
That book was written about A.D. 1150 and it contains a copy of the Breviarium that reflects a new redaction of the document from the end of the 9th century. It is one of the most important historical documents regarding Hesse and Thuringia from the time of the Carolingians. The document contains three tables listing:
- royal gifts to the abbey (apparently through the year 802)
- list of private possessions of the archbishop Lullus (up through the year 786)
- gifts to the abbey from 776 to 815
That is, if the redaction is similar to the original then we have reflected in this 12th century work the state of affairs from the mid-8th century to the early 9th century. In any event, the list contains several interesting, possibly, Suavic names (others may also be Suavic so this is not an exclusive list):
- Berisciza (Allendorf am Baerenschusse)
- Jazaho (Nieder-Jossa)
- Collide (Koelleda)
- Seheshobite (Neuhausen)
- Dribure (Trebra)
- Bozilebo (Boesleben)
- Vmisa
- Juffelze (Giflitz)
- Lizichesdorf (Lentzdorf)
- Miluhesdorf (Milndorf)
There also other interesting names such as:
- Suebada (Schwebda “an der Werra”) which recalls swoboda (though may mean “own Boden“)
Or:
- Milinge (Mellingen, SE, as per Landau, of Weimar) which makes you think of those other Milingoi (Μηλιγγοί)
Most interesting the Suavs themselves are mentioned as belonging to the abbey. The Suavs come with your property if you own land in the following localities:
- Bischhausen (near Neuental or, as Landau would have it, near Waldkappel?)
- Muehlhausen (NE (really NW?) from Erfurt)
- Remda (NW from Rudolfstadt)
- Rudolfstadt
- Buettstedt (N from Weimar)
- Tuengeda (SW from Langensalza)
- Schwabhausen (S of Gotha)
- Rothenstein (on the Saale (Solawa) between Jena and Kahla)
- Winningen (around Aschersleben)
- Balgstedt (or Ballstädt?) (N of Gotha)
- Zottelstedt (on the Ilm NW of Apolda)
- Lentzdorf (E of Weida) (note this is called Lizichesdorf; note, too, Weyda > Wajda)
- Rumsdorf (near Oldisleben)
- Ramsdorf (near Taennich in the former county of Blankenhain)
- Milndorf (Miluhesdorf) near Oldisleben
- Drummaresdorf (unknown)
- Vmisa (unknown)
Of course I was not able to highlight all of these but here are the ones that were easy (blue is the abbey, green are some uncertain places, red is the color of either the name mentioned or the place that, according to Landau, lies near the particular location).
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