Patrologia Latina

The "Patrologia Latina" is an enormous collection of the writings of the Church Fathers and other ecclesiastical writers published by Jacques-Paul Migne between 1844 and 1855, with indices published between 1862 and 1865.

Although consisting of reprints of old editions, which often contain mistakes and do not comply with modern standards of scholarship, the series, due to its availability (it is present in many academic libraries) and the fact that it incorporates many texts of which no modern critical edition is available, is still widely used by scholars of the Middle Ages and is in this respect 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 patristic and medieval Greek works with Latin translations.

The "Patrologia Latina" includes over 1000 years of Latin works from Tertullian to Pope Innocent III, in 217 volumes: volumes 1 to 73, from Tertullian to Gregory of Tours, were published from 1844 to 1849, and volumes 74 to 217, from Pope Gregory I to Innocent III, 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. These reprints did not always correspond exactly with the original series both in quality and internal arrangement, and caution should be exercised when referencing to the "PL" in general. [See http://pld.chadwyck.co.uk/help/about2.htm.]

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, some at least as notable for their own deeds/actions as for their works. 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.

ecular rulers

* Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus (155)
* crusader king Baldwin I of Jerusalem (155)
* Roman emperor Constantine I (8)
* Frankish emperor Charlemagne (97-98)
* king Charles the Bald (124)
* crusader Godfrey of Bouillon (155)
* Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (140)
* king Lotharius I (97-98)
* king Louis the Pious (104)
* king Louis VII of France (155)

Popes

*Pope Adrian IV (188)
*Pope Alexander III (200)
*Pope Anastasius IV (188)
*Pope Benedict I (72)
*Pope Benedict III (115)
*Pope Boniface II (64)
*Pope Calixtus II (163)
*Pope Celestine III (206)
*Pope Clement III (204)
*Pope Cornelius (3)
*Pope Eugene III (180)
*Pope Felix III (58)
*Pope Felix IV (64)
*Pope Gelasius I (59)
*Pope Gelasius II (163)
*Pope Gregory I (75-79)
*Pope Gregory IV (106)
*Pope Gregory VIII (202)
*Pope Hilarius (58)
*Pope Honorius II (166)
*Pope Hormisdas (63)
*Pope Innocent III (214-217)
*Pope John II (72)
*Pope John VI (89)
*Pope John XIII (135)
*Pope John XIX (141)
*Pope Innocent I (20)
*Pope Leo I (54-56)
*Pope Leo II (96)
*Pope Leo IV (115)
*Pope Nicholas I (119)
*Pope Paschal II (163)
*Pope Pelagius II (72)
*Pope Sergius I (89)
*Pope Sergius II (106)
*Pope Simplicius (58)
*Pope Stephen I (3)
*Pope Sylvester II (139)
*Pope Leo IX (143)
*Pope Gregory VII (148)
*Pope Victor III (149)
*Pope Urban II (151)
*Pope Urban III (202)

Other bishops

* Absalon, bishop of Roskilde, Danish statesman and archbishop of Lund (209)
* Adalberon, bishop of Laon (141)
* Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (89)
* bishop Saint Ambrose of Milan (14-17)
* archishop Anselm of Canterbury (158-159)
* bishop Anselm of Lucca (149)
* bishop Saint Augustine of Hippo (32-47)
* bishop Avitus of Vienne (59)
* bishop Baldric of Dol-en-Bretagne (166)
* Saint Cassian of Imola, bishop of Brescia (49-50)
* bishop of Poitiers Gilbert de la Porrée (64)
* bishop Saint Gregory of Tours (71)
* bishop Saint Hilary of Arles (50)
* bishop Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Doctor of the Church (9-10)
* bishop Saint Isidore of Seville (81-84)
* bishop Ivo of Chartres (161-162)
* bishop of Chartres John of Salisbury (199)
* Archbishop of Canterbury Lanfranc (150)
* bishop Liutprand of Cremona (136)
* bishop Saint Martin of Tours (18)
* bishop of Paris Maurice de Sully (200)
* bishop Odo of Bayeux (155)
* missionary bishop Saint Patrick (53)
* bishop Saint Paulinus of Nola (61)
* bishop of Paris Peter Lombard (191-192)
* archbishop of Canterbury Theodore of Tarsus (99)
* bishop Thietmar of Merseburg (139)
* archbishop of Canterbury Saint Thomas Becket (190)
* missionary bishop Ulfilas, bible translator into Gothic (18)
* archbishop William of Tyre (201)

Other clerics

* abbot Abbo of Fleury (139)
* Adémar de Chabannes (141)
* Alger of Liège (180)
* archdeacon Anselm of Laon (162)
* abbot Saint Benedict of Aniane (103)
* abbot Saint Benedict of Nursia (66)
* abbot Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, Doctor of the Church (182-185)
* presbyter Coelius Sedulius, poet (19)
* monk Dionysius Exiguus (Dennis the Little or Dennis the Short) (67)
* Dudon or Dudo of Saint-Quentin, dean of Saint-Quentin (141)
* Helinand of Froidmont (212)
* Gildas of Rhuys and Llancarfan (69)
* monk Honorius of Autun (172)
* monk Hugh of St. Victor, thomist philosopher (175-177)
* abbot Saint Odo of Cluny (133)
* Benedictine monk Otloh of St. Emmeram (146)
* Petrus Comestor (198)
* Peter Tudebode (155)
* uncanonized Saint Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny (189)
* abbot Regino of Prüm (132)
* prior Richard of St. Victor (196)
* Cistercian abbot Robert of Molesme (157)
* Robert the Monk (155)
* monk Rufinus of Aquileia, translator (21)
* Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis (186)
* Orderic Vitalis (188)
* monk William of Malmesbury, historian (179)

Others

:"including those not yet categorized"
* Tertullian (volumes 1-2)
* Marcus Minucius Felix (3)
* Novatian (3)
* Cyprian (3-4)
* Arnobius (5)
* Lactantius (6-7)
* Gaius Marius Victorinus (8)
* Eusebius of Vercelli (12)
* Lucifer Calaritanus (13)
* Symmachus (18)
* Saint Sulpicius Severus (20)
* Pelagius (21)
* Saint Jerome (22-30)
* Orosius (31)
* Saint Vincent of Lérins (50)
* Saint Prosper of Aquitaine (51)
* Salvian (53)
* False Decretals (56)
* Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (60)
* Boethius (63-64)
* Magnus Felix Ennodius, Latin rhetorician and poet (63)
* Cassiodorus (69-70)
* Venantius Fortunatus (88)
* Saint Boniface (89)
* Bede (90-95)
* Alcuin (100-101)
* Einhard (104)
* Theodulf (105)
* Rabanus Maurus (107-112)
* Walafrid Strabo (113-114)
* Radbertus (120)
* Ratramnus (121)
* Gottschalk (121)
* John the Scot (122)
* Hincmar (125-126)
* Pseudo-Isidore (130)
* Flodoard (135)
* Hroswitha of Gandersheim (137)
* Dunstan (137)
* Aimoin (139)
* Fulbert of Chartres (141)
* Helgaud (141)
* Hermannus Contractus (also called Hermann of Reichenau or Hermannus Augiensis)(143)
* Adam of Bremen (146)
* Marianus Scotus (147)
* Bruno of Chartreuse (152-153)
* Fulcher of Chartres (155)
* Guibert of Nogent (155)
* Raymond of Aguilers (155)
* Walter the Chancellor (155)
* Peter Abelard (178)
* Gratian (187)
* Hildegard of Bingen (197)
* John of Cornwall (199)
* Peter of Blois, French poet and diplomat (207)
* Walter of Châtillon (209)
* Alain de Lille (210)
* Helinand of Froidmont (212)

Table of Contents

Footnotes

ee also

*Patrologia Graeca
*Patrologia Orientalis

External links

* [http://www.luc.edu/faculty/mhooker/google_books-bible_judaism_christianity.html#migne_PL Catalog of "PL" volumes in Google Books] , by Mischa Hooker
* Online version of [http://www.archive.org/details/patrologiae83unknuoft Volume 83]
* Online version of [http://www.openlibrary.org/details/patrologiae00unknuoft Volume 108]
* [http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/25_10_MPL.html Patrologia Latina Digitalized Database] at Documenta Catholica Omnia

* [http://www.patristique.org Many latin and greek editions with translation in french.]
* [http://www.paginasprodigy.com/asesoriainformatica/migne_pl.htm A comprehensive catalog of "PL" volumes in Google Books] , where was included duplicated imprints, with the year and the edition of each volume founded [Migne and/or Garnier brothers] , by Francisco Arriaga.