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Encyclopedia > Patrologia Latina

The Patrologia Latina is an enormous work published by Jacques-Paul Migne between 1844 and 1855, with indices published between 1862 and 1865.


It is a monumental work and is still influential for scholars of the Middle Ages, comparable to the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. The Patrologia Latina is one part of the Patrologiae Cursus Completus, the second part of which is the Patrologia Graeco-Latina, consisting of medieval Greek works with Latin translations.


The Patrologia Latina includes over 1000 years of Latin works from Tertullian to Pope Innocent III. There are 217 volumes: volumes 1 to 73, from Tertullian to Gregory of Tours, was published from 1844 to 1849, and volumes 74 to 217, from Pope Gregory I to Innocent III, was published from 1849 to 1855. Although the collection ends in 1216 after the death of Innocent III, Migne originally wanted to include documents all the way up to the Reformation; this task proved too great, but some later commentaries or documents associated with earlier works were included.


The printing plates for the Patrologia were destroyed by fire in 1868, but with help from the Garnier printing house they were restored and new editions were printed beginning in the 1880s.


Notable authors in the Patrologia

These are some of the more notable authors included in the Patrologia, with the volume(s) in which they appear. Most of the works are ecclesiastic in nature, but there are also documents of literary, historical or linguistic (such as the Gothic bible in vol. 18) interest.

External link

  • Patrologia Graecae (http://rosetta.reltech.org/reltech/PG/info.html) at the Religion and Technology Center

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About Patrologia Latina Database (312 words)
Migne's Patrologia Latina was originally printed in 217 volumes from 1844 to 1855.
Consequently, the Patrologia Latina Database has been based exclusively on the copies of the first edition of the texts and indices.
However, he eventually judged that it would be wiser to conclude the series with the year 1216 as, after that year, the explosion of philosophical and theological writing made it impossible for any series to include even representative portions of the principal texts.
Patrologia Latina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (303 words)
The Patrologia Latina is an enormous work published by Jacques-Paul Migne between 1844 and 1855, with indices published between 1862 and 1865.
The Patrologia Latina is one part of the Patrologiae Cursus Completus, the second part of which is the Patrologia Graeco-Latina, consisting of patristic and medieval Greek works with Latin translations.
Patrologia Latina Database at the University of Chicago
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