The 136 documents edited here, along with the 137 for the years 1100–51 published in volume i (1998), provide an important resource for the study of both Church and society in north-eastern Italy. The chapter of Verona, by now almost independent of the bishop, who appears only occasionally as a witness in these documents, was a major patrimonial landowner (see especially document 10, Frederick i's confirmation of its property in 1154) and controlled a number of dependent churches, including a nunnery. The documents here primarily concern the exploitation of that patrimony – there are a number of leases to peasant cultivators as well as enfeofments to nobles – and its defence in a series of legal cases, although a few documents relating to other churches, notably the Camoldolese abbey of St Maria della Vangadizza, appear to have been accidentally deposited in the archive, probably during the fifteenth century. That some twenty-eight different notaries wrote the 115 documents actually produced within the diocese is in itself revealing of the vigorous written legal culture of Verona, of which the evidence here is but a small part. But, as a long and interesting introduction explains, the real explosion in written evidence came immediately after this period. Subsequent volumes will edit the 300 further documents in the same archive dating from between 1183 and 1200, and there were some ninety different notaries writing documents for the chapter in the first quarter of the thirteenth century, as well as a number of separate registers, not all of which now survive. Publication of this evidence will further enhance the study of one of the best-documented dioceses of northern Italy during the central Middle Ages.