series: Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum

Published by De Gruyter

Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum

Edited by: Arbeitsgruppe CSEL an der Universität Salzburg

ISSN: 1816-3882

eISSN: 2199-2916

Overview
Volumes

The Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL) is an academic series that publishes critical editions of Latin works by late-antique Christian authors from the time of the late 2nd century until the beginning of the 7th century. The editions are prepared in cooperation with internationally renowned experts according to modern editorial techniques and are meant to serve as textual basis for scholarly disciplines dealing with Late Antiquity. The volumes are published by the scientific institution "CSEL", which was founded in 1864 by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and which is part of the University of Salzburg since 2012. In addition, monographs on topics related to the Latin patristic period and conference proceedings are published at irregular intervals (Extra Seriem).

Arbeitsgruppe CSEL an der Universität Salzburg
http://csel.sbg.ac.at/

International Advisory Board:
François Dolbeau, Roger Green, Rainer Jakobi, Robert Kaster, Ernst A. Schmidt, Danuta Shanzer, Kurt Smolak, Francesco Stella

Topics

book: On Pseudo-Cyprian’s Heptateuchos

Book 2023

On Pseudo-Cyprian’s Heptateuchos

Biblical Rewriting between 'narratio probabilis' and Allusive Intertextuality

Ps.-Cyprianus Gallus, Michele Cutino, Victoria Zimmerl-Panagl

Volume [EXTRA SERIEM] in this series

Though the Heptateuchos is possibly the most organic attempt at poetic rewriting of the Old Testament, attributed to “Cyprian the Gaul” by R. Peiper, the latest editor of the text in CSEL 23 (1891), we do not have a comprehensive analysis of this poem yet that can provide a clear grasp of the poem’s compositional logic, show which of its biblical model’s content was used, and expound the context and purpose of its versification. It is apparent that in many respects the Heptateuchos is still profoundly unknown. For this reason the UR 4377 of Catholic Theology and Religious Sciences of the University of Strasbourg, notably its ERCAM (“Équipe de recherches sur le christianisme antique et médiéval”), with its statutory members and its associate members, is engaged in the publication of a new critical edition of each of the seven books of the anonymous poem of uncertain date, the Heptateuchos, also providing an exhaustive commentary. The essays collected in this volume represent a preliminary work for the upcoming edition and commentary planned by the members of UR 4377 in Strasbourg. Above all, they show how the anonymous author was interested in safeguarding the criterion of the narratio probabilis in the poem, through probable references to Judeo-Hellenistic literature and by refining the exegetical reading of the text with references to classical and Christian poetry.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111022277
ISBN:: 9783111022277
ISBN:: 9783111019529
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Commencement de commentaire sur l’épître aux Romains

Book 2019

Commencement de commentaire sur l’épître aux Romains

Introduction, édition critique, traduction et commentaire par Daniel Hadas

Augustine d’Hippone, Daniel Hadas

Volume [Extra Seriem] in this series

Peu avant d’accéder à l’épiscopat d’Hippone, en l’année 395/96, Augustin entreprend un projet ambitieux de commentaire sur les épîtres de saint Paul. Après un commentaire succinct sur Galates, et un livre de «　Questions　» sur Romains, il entame un commentaire à grande échelle sur Romains, qui devait rivaliser, voire surpasser, tout autre commentaire scripturaire jusqu’alors produit par l’Eglise latine. Cependant, comme il l’admet lui-même, il se décourage devant l’ampleur de la tâche, et abandonne son travail n’ayant commenté que le premier paragraphe de Romains. Néanmoins, il décide que ce qu’il a écrit mérite d’être conservé, et donne à son texte le nom d’Epistulae ad Romanos inchoata expositio («　Commencement de commentaire sur l’épître aux Romains　»).

　

Malgré sa brièveté, cette Inchoata expositio révèle toute la sagesse et l’imagination d’Augustin lecteur des Écritures, et comporte dans sa partie finale un riche exposé sur la nature du blasphème contre l’Esprit Saint, qui serait, selon l’Évangile, le péché impardonnable.

　

Ce livre fournit une nouvelle édition critique de l’Inchoata expositio, accompagnée d’une traduction française et d’un commentaire détaillé sur les aspects littéraires, historiques et théologiques de ce texte-clé pour le développement de la pensée exégétique d’Augustin.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110594782
ISBN:: 9783110594782
ISBN:: 9783110595246
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Edition und Erforschung lateinischer patristischer Texte

Book 2014

Edition und Erforschung lateinischer patristischer Texte

Victoria Zimmerl-Panagl, Lukas J. Dorfbauer, Clemens Weidmann

Volume [Extra Seriem] in this series

This compendium compiles the latest research findings on the patristic literature of Late Antiquity, including questions surrounding editorial methods and interpretive approaches, and also presents a previously unpublished and lost tractate from Late Antiquity. It contains essays on Tertullian, Fortunatianus of Aquileia, Ambrosius, Prudentius, Augustine, Hieronymus, Eucherius, Gregor of Nazianzus, as well as monastic texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339239
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033686-3
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033923-9
ISBN:: 9783110370829
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Language and Literature
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Introductions and Overviews
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Fortunatianus redivivus

Book 2017

Fortunatianus redivivus

Bischof Fortunatian von Aquileia und sein Evangelienkommentar

Lukas J. Dorfbauer, Victoria Zimmerl-Panagl

Volume [Extra Seriem] in this series

This volume includes papers presented at the September 2015 international conference in Salzburg entitled "Forunatianus Redivivus," which focused on the commentary on the gospels by Bishop Forunatianus of Acuileia, first discovered in 2012. To supplement the first edition (CSEL 103), these papers examine this major "new" text, so extraordinarily important for patristics, from the perspectives of philology, theology, and historiography.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110471588
ISBN:: 9783110471588
ISBN:: 9783110469684
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Der Koheletkommentar des Hieronymus

Book 2014

Der Koheletkommentar des Hieronymus

Einleitung, revidierter Text, Übersetzung und Kommentierung

Elisabeth Birnbaum

Volume [Extra Seriem] in this series

With his Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Hieronymus became the most influential interpreter of this Biblical book until the early modern era. For the first time, this volume offers a German translation and continuous commentary on Hieronymus’s interpretations from the perspective of biblical scholarship. An extensive introduction to the topic and a revised Latin text complete the volume.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110400946
ISBN:: 978-3-11-037568-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-040094-6
ISBN:: 9783110401134
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Exegesis, Methodology, Bibliographies
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms
Subject:: Wisdom and Psalms, other
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Commentary on the Gospels

Book Open Access 2017

Commentary on the Gospels

English translation and introduction

Fortunatianus Aquileiensis, H. A. G. Houghton

Volume [Extra Seriem] in this series

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In 2012, Lukas Dorfbauer identified a manuscript in Cologne Cathedral Library as a copy of the Commentary on the Gospels by Fortunatianus, bishop of Aquileia in the middle of the fourth century. This discovery enabled him to identify further witnesses to the commentary and works dependent on it. Dorfbauer's critical edition, to be published in the CSEL series in 2017, makes this work available to scholarship for the first time in over a millennium.

The discovery of a new work from late antiquity is always a landmark in the history of research. This extensive commentary shines new light on fourth-century biblical interpretation and the exegetical practices and literary work of an African bishop ministering in north Italy in this period. What is more, it appears to be dependent on works by Origen and Victorinus of Poetovio which are no longer preserved.

In order to make this important work available to a wider audience, Dr Houghton has prepared an English translation and introduction in conjunction with the COMPAUL project on the earliest commentaries on the New Testament as sources for the biblical text.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110516371
ISBN:: 9783110516371
ISBN:: 9783110524208
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Orationes funebres II

Book 2022

Orationes funebres II

De excessu fratris libri II (liber secundus: De resurrectione)

Ambrosius Mediolanensis, Victoria Zimmerl-Panagl

Volume 107 in this series

CSEL 107, the second part of the critical edition of Ambrose’s Orationes funebres, contains the two speeches that Ambrose held when his brother Satyrus died: the first he gave at the funeral, the second seven days afterward as an extensive treatise on resurrection. Alongside the issue of the work titles, the introduction to the edited text deals above all with how they have been passed down as manuscripts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110764192
ISBN:: 9783110764192
ISBN:: 9783110763249
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Orationes funebres I

Book 2021

Orationes funebres I

In psalmum 61 / De obitu Gratiani. De consolatione Valentiniani / De obitu Valentiniani De obitu Theodosii

Ambrosius Mediolanensis, Victoria Zimmerl-Panagl

Volume 106 in this series

This edition presents Ambrose’s eulogies for the emperors Valentinian II and Theodosius I, taking into account the full scope of their transmission. In a number of codices, the interpretation of Psalm 61 (the last text in the Explanatio psalmorum XII, ed. M. Petschenig) has been transmitted together with the two "emperor speeches" as De obitu Gratiani. This volume thus also provides a new edition of this text with an extensive introduction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747355
ISBN:: 9783110747355
ISBN:: 9783110747195
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Späte Schriften zur Gnadenlehre

Book 2019

Späte Schriften zur Gnadenlehre

De gratia et libero arbitrio. De praedestinatione sanctorum libri duo (olim: De praedestinatione sanctorum, De dono perseverantiae)

Augustinus, Volker Henning Drecoll, Christoph Scheerer, Benjamin Gleede

Volume 105 in this series

This volume includes the first critical edition of two of Augustine’s most important writings on the theology of grace, De gratia et libero arbitrio and De praedestinatione sanctorum libri duo. It also contains De dono perseverantiae, presented and edited as a second book in accordance with the extant manuscript. A detailed preface describes the historical tradition and explains the most important textual decisions.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110607789
ISBN:: 9783110607789
ISBN:: 9783110606942
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Collatio Carthaginensis anni 411

Book 2018

Collatio Carthaginensis anni 411

Gesta collationis Carthaginensis Augustinus, Breviculus collationis Augustinus, Ad Donatistas post collationem

Augustinus, Clemens Weidmann

Volume 104 in this series

More than 500 bishops were invited to attend a trial in Carthage in 411 that terminated the 100-year-old Donatist schism. The extensive records of the trial, which are largely preserved, provide valuable insight into church history. They are presented here in a critical edition, together with two texts by Augustine that summarize the events of the trial.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110471564
ISBN:: 9783110471564
ISBN:: 9783110469677
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Commentarii in evangelia

Book 2017

Commentarii in evangelia

Fortunatianus Aquileiensis, Lukas J. Dorfbauer

Volume 103 in this series

This volume contains the first edition of the commentaries on the gospels by Bishop Fortunatianus of Aquileia (mid-4^th century). This work, which was only discovered in the form of an almost complete manuscript in 2012, is the oldest preserved commentary on the gospels from Latin antiquity, and therefore of extraordinary significance for patristics. The critical edition of the text includes a detailed introduction.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110471540
ISBN:: 9783110471540
ISBN:: 9783110469660
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: New Testament
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: De Musica

Book 2017

De Musica

Augustinus, Martin Jacobsson, Lukas J. Dorfbauer

Volume 102 in this series

This is the first critical edition of all six books of Augustine’s De musica. Originally meant as part of a series of treatises on the liberal arts, it is especially important because of its presentation of metrics. Book six offers a theological discussion of perception based on the concept of numerus ("rhythm"). Thus, De musica is a fascinating document of Augustine’s intellectual development from secular learning to Christian philosophy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110471465
ISBN:: 9783110471465
ISBN:: 9783110469653
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Music
Subject:: Theory and Methods
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Sermones selecti

Book 2015

Sermones selecti

Augustinus, Clemens Weidmann

Volume 101 in this series

Modern scholars have neglected some of the sermons of Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD) because they considered them inauthentic. This volume argues in favor of the authenticity of more than ten of these sermons, and for the first time, presents them in a critical edition. In addition, several sermons previously known to be authentic are presented for the first time in a complete version.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110336641
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033399-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033664-1
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Liber epigrammatum

Book 2016

Liber epigrammatum

Prosper Aquitanus, Albertus G. A. Horsting

Volume 100 in this series

This volume of the CSEL presents the first critical edition of Prosper of Aquitaine’s Liber epigrammatum, edited by A. Horsting. From his position at the side of Pope Leo, Prosper composed a poetical synthesis of Augustine’s vast œuvre, writing poems inspired by maxims he had excerpted from his works. The epigrams were a guide to Augustine that was both authoritative and pleasant to read. His synthesis became an essential part of the school curriculum from the days of Charlemagne to those of Louis XIV, serving as the first and most universal interpretative scheme for Augustine’s theology for generations of students. The poems, though little known and studied today, were widely read throughout the Middle Ages, in the debates of the Reformation over the nature of predestination and grace, and again in the controversies over the teachings of Port Royal.
This popular text is preserved in more than 180 manuscripts. In order to establish the text, those manuscripts fragments copied before the twelfth century have been used, a group amounting to around forty textual witnesses. This volume fills a major desideratum in the field of Christian Latin poetry and will be of interest to philologists, theologians, and historians of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110336627
ISBN:: 9783110336627
ISBN:: 9783110333985
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Early Christianity
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Monastica 1

Book 2015

Monastica 1

Donati Regula, Pseudo-Columbani Regula monialium (frg.)

Victoria Zimmerl-Panagl

Volume 98 in this series

This volume presents a critical edition of two Latin monastic texts from late antiquity along with a scholarly introduction. The Regula Donati and the anonymous Fragmentum Regulae were both designed for nunneries. Donat’s rules in particular transmit a complex tradition of early monastic rules.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110335941
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033397-8
ISBN:: 978-3-11-033594-1
ISBN:: 9783110389289
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: History
Subject:: Historical Periods
Subject:: Ancient History
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Enarrationes in Psalmos 110-118

Book 2015

Enarrationes in Psalmos 110-118

Enarrationes in Psalmos 101-150, Pars 2

Augustinus, Franco Gori

Volume 95/2 in this series

As part of the first critical edition of Augustine’s commentary on the Psalms, the edition of Expositions on Psalms 101–150 was developed in collaboration between the CSEL and the Istituto Patristico Augustinianum (Rome). This volume completes the sub-project, developed by Franco Gori together with Angelo De Nicola.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110411720
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041116-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-041172-0
ISBN:: 9783110411775
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Enarrationes in Psalmos 71–80

Book 2022

Enarrationes in Psalmos 71–80

Augustinus, Lukas J. Dorfbauer, Victoria Zimmerl-Panagl

Volume 94/3 in this series

Volume 3 of the media quinquagena of Augustine's Enarrationes in psalmos includes the interpretations of Psalms 71-80. Some are based on co-stenographed sermons, others Augustine added later. The introduction provides information about the manuscript tradition and Augustine's handling of the Psalter text. Each enarratio is accompanied by information on dating, localization, scripture readings, and the reconstructed wording of the psalm.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111015514
ISBN:: 9783111015514
ISBN:: 9783111012988
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

book: Enarrationes in Psalmos 61–70

Book 2020

Enarrationes in Psalmos 61–70

Augustinus, Hildegund Müller

Volume 94/2 in this series

Augustine’s commentaries on Psalm 61-70 are mostly based on sermons. In this edition, a special emphasis was laid on the adequate presentation of Augustine’s expressive and nuanced oral style. Each Enarratio is accompanied by an introduction, in which the known facts on time, date and liturgical circumstances are presented, as well as a precisely reconstructed version of the text of Augustine’s Psalter(s).

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110674675
ISBN:: 9783110674675
ISBN:: 9783110671599
Subject:: Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Subject:: Classical Studies
Subject:: Latin
Subject:: Latin Authors
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Old Testament / Ancient Near East
Subject:: History of Reception
Subject:: Patristics
Subject:: Patristic Authors
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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