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Only four papyri from the group of Italian (mostly Ravenna) papyri from the 5th century onwards are still surviving in the Museo Arcivescovile of Ravenna. Those dated from the 5th to the 7th century were edited by Tjäder in his P.Ital. I and II. All of them, like the majority of the Ravenna papyri, are written transversa charta. They were restored by Lucia Criscuolo, Carla Salvaterra and Giovanni Geraci in 1991; the main result has been the correct reconstruction of one papyrus that had been erroneously reassembled in two different glasses in 1927 by Hugo Ibscher, the well known restorer of the papyrus collections in Berlin and in the Biblioteca Vaticana in Rome. Pap. I (P. Ital. 49): 557 A.D. Latin. An "acclaratio in iure" (to ascertain that the reported facts are true) with two sworn witnesses concernig the possessions of the Goth Gundila. Pap. II/1 (P. Ital. 42): about 600 A.D. Latin. Fragment of a sale contract. Pap. II/2 and Pap. III (P. Ital. 22): 639 A.D. Latin. After the 1991 restoration the document is 1,68 m. in height and 33 cm. in width. The text is a deed of pseudo-donation to the Church of Ravenna, with reservation of emphyteutic tenancy to the donor. The restoration made by Ibscher reassembled the beginning (subscription by the first witness) and the very end of the document (emphyteutic contract) in one glass (Pap. II/2) and regarded as a different text (Pap. III) the central part of the same papyrus (subscriptions of the other four witnesses, completio by which the scribe assumed the responsability for the formal and juridical correctness of the document, notitia testium - summary list of the witnesses). The 1991 restoration reassembled the three parts in the right order and made one single text of the former two. Pap. grande s.n. Latin. 819 A.D. 2,43 m. in height, 52 cm. in width. Suspended between glasses to one wall of the so-called "Archivio antico". Privilegium by the pope Paschalis I who confirms to the Church of Ravenna all the privileges granted to it by popes and emperors and all the donations, sales and wills bequeathed to it.