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The Patrologia Latina Database contains 221 volumes and represents a complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855 and 1862-1865).
Migne's Patrologia Latina was originally printed in 217 volumes from 1844 to 1855. There were two series: the series prima, volumes 1-73, (Tertullian to Gregory the Great), 1844 -1849; and the series secunda volumes 74-217, (Gregory the Great to Pope Innocent 3rd), 1849-1855.
Migne himself reprinted volumes up to 1865, at which time he sold the literary rights for the Patrologia Latina to the firm of Garnier in Paris. In February of 1868, a fire destroyed Migne's presses and his printing plates. Garnier had already begun reprinting parts of the Patrologia Latina three years earlier and proceeded to reprint the entire set by 1880. Unfortunately, these reprintings - and all subsequent editions by Garnier - are inferior in a number of respects to Migne's own first editions. Consequently, the Patrologia Latina Database has been based exclusively on the copies of the first edition of the texts and indices.
Migne originally intended the Patrologia Latina to span the whole history of Latin Christianity up to the eve of the Reformation. 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.
The main chronological sequence of authors in the Patrologia Latina therefore runs from about AD 200 to AD 1216. However, Migne did incorporate medieval texts written after 1216 where these were traditionally attached to an earlier work, often as a commentary or an introduction to it.
Thomas Izbicki
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Dear Tom,
Thank you very much for your speedy and helpful reply! Might you (or anyone 'out there')
know which edition was actually used by th PL Database people in the inputting of the texts?
Best wishes, Carolyn Muessig
Quoting Thomas Izbicki <[log in to unmask]>:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
>
> In the back of volume 2 of: M. Vattasso, Initia patrum, 2 vols.
> (Rome, > 1959), are a Table comparata (1844 vs. 1865 editions) and and Index
> of > authors organized by volume no., Tertullian to Innocent III0.
>
> Tom Izbicki
>
> Thomas Izbicki
> Research Services Librarian
> and Gifts-in-Kind Officer
> Eisenhower Library
> Johns Hopkins
> Baltimore, MD 21218
> (410)516-7173
> fax (410)516-8399
>
> >>> [log in to unmask] 01/26/06 2:46 PM >>>
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
>
> Dear medieval-religion list members,
>
> I hope one of you can advise me on this matter: I am using, via a
> computer
> terminal, the electronic text of the Patrologia Latina Database. Do
> you > know if
> there is a volume-by-volume list, somewhere, providing the full
> bibliograph> ical
> details of the volumes used in compiling the database? There exist
> more > than
> one edition and printing for so many of these volumes, so I want to
> be > sure of
> the exact bibliographical details; this is especially the case as I
> will > be
> wanting to check some of my findings in the corresponding published
> > version of
> the PL.
>
> Thank you very much for your assistance!
>
> With best wishes,
> Carolyn Muessig
>
> Department of Theology and Religious Studies
> University of Bristol
> Bristol
> BS8 1TB
> UK
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