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, the series, due to its accessibility and the fact that it incorporates many texts of which no modern 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. 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.

Contents

Notable authors in the Patrologia

Secular rulers

Popes

Other prelates

Others

See also

External links

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.

Secular rulers

★ emperor Alexius I Comnenus (155)

★ king Baldwin I of Jerusalem (155)

★ Constantine I (8)

★ emperor Charlemagne (97-98)

★ king Charles the Bald (124)

★ 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 prelates

★ Adalberon, bishop of Laon (141)

★ Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne (89)

★ bishop Saint Ambrose of Milan (14-17)

★ archishop Anselm of Canterbury (158-159)

★ bishop Saint Augustine of Hippo (32-47)

★ Saint Cassian of Imola, Bishop of Brescia (49-50)

★ bishop Saint Hilary of Arles (50)

★ bishop Saint Isidore of Seville (81-84)

★ bishop Ivo of Chartres (161-162)

★ bishop Saint Martin of Tours (18)

★ archbishop Saint Thomas Becket (190)

★ missionary bishop Ulfilas, bible translator into Gothic (18)

Others

:''including those not yet categorized''

★ Tertullian (volumes 1-3)

★ Marcus Minucius Felix (3)

★ Novatian (3)

★ Cyprian (3-4)

★ Arnobius (5)

★ Lactantius (6-7)

★ Gaius Marius Victorinus (8)

★ Hilary of Poitiers (9-10)

★ Eusebius of Vercelli (12)

★ Lucifer Calaritanus (13)

★ Symmachus (18)

★ presbyter Coelius Sedulius, poet (19)

★ Saint Sulpicius Severus (20)

★ monk Rufinus of Aquileia, translator (21)

★ Pelagius (21)

★ Saint Jerome (22-30)

★ Orosius (31)

★ Saint Vincent of Lérins (50)

★ Saint Prosper of Aquitaine (51)

★ Salvian (53)

★ Saint Patrick (53)

★ False Decretals (56)

★ Avitus of Vienne (59)

★ Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (60)

★ Paulinus of Nola (61)

★ Boethius (63-64)

★ Magnus Felix Ennodius (63)

★ Gilbert de la Porrée (64)

★ Saint Benedict of Nursia (66)

★ Dionysius Exiguus (67)

★ Gildas (69)

★ Cassiodorus (69-70)

★ Gregory of Tours (71)

★ Venantius Fortunatus (88)

★ Saint Boniface (89)

★ Bede (90-95)

★ Theodore of Tarsus (99)

★ Alcuin (100-101)

★ Benedict of Aniane (103)

★ 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)

★ Regino of Prüm (132)

★ Odo of Cluny (133)

★ Flodoard (135)

★ Liutprand of Cremona (136)

★ Hroswitha of Gandersheim (137)

★ Dunstan (137)

★ Aimoin (139)

★ Abbo of Fleury (139)

★ Thietmar (139)

★ Adémar de Chabannes (141)

★ Fulbert of Chartres (141)

★ Dudo of Saint-Quentin (141)

★ Helgaud (141)

★ Hermannus Contractus (143)

★ Otloh of St. Emmeram (146)

★ Adam of Bremen (146)

★ Marianus Scotus (147)

★ Anselm of Lucca (149)

★ Lanfranc (150)

★ Bruno of Chartreuse (152-153)

★ Fulcher of Chartres (155)

★ Godfrey of Bouillon (155)

★ Guibert of Nogent (155)

★ Odo of Bayeux (155)

★ Peter Tudebode (155)

★ Raymond of Aguilers (155)

★ Robert the Monk (155)

★ Walter the Chancellor (155)

★ cistercian abbot Robert of Molesme (157)

★ archdeacon Anselm of Laon (162)

★ Baldric of Dol (166)

★ Honorius of Autun (172)

★ Hugh of St. Victor (175-177)

★ Peter Abelard (178)

★ William of Malmesbury (179)

★ Alger of Liège (180)

★ Bernard of Clairvaux (182-185)

★ Abbot Suger (186)

★ Gratian (187)

★ Orderic Vitalis (188)

★ Peter the Venerable (189)

★ Peter Lombard (191-192)

★ Richard of St. Victor (196)

★ Hildegard of Bingen (197)

★ Petrus Comestor (198)

★ John of Salisbury (199)

★ John of Cornwall (199)

★ Maurice de Sully (200)

★ William of Tyre (201)

★ Peter of Blois (207)

★ Absalon (209)

★ Walter of Châtillon (209)

★ Alain de Lille (210)

★ Helinand of Froidmont (212)

See also

★ Patrologia Graeca

★ Patrologia Orientalis

External links

★ Patrologia Latina Database at the University of Chicago (pass needed)

★ Catalog of ''PL'' volumes in Google Books, by Mischa Hooker

★ Online version of Volume 83

★ Online version of Volume 108

★ Patrologia Latina Digitalized Database at Documenta Catholica Omnia