Registrum
Epistolarum.
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Important MSS.
1. Cologne 92. of the 8th cent. Held by
Ewald to be the best of all the MSS.
2. St. Petersburg 6 F. 1. 7. (Formerly at
Corvey; then at St. Germain-des-Prés.) 8th cent. The first
in the list of MSS. given by Migne.
3. Berlin theol. 322. of the 9th cent.
4. Dusseldorf B. 79. of the 9th cent.
5. Munich 14641. of the 9th cent.
6. Paris 11674. (St. Germain 282.) of the 9th
cent.
7. Vienna 934. of the 9th cent.
8. The Escurial d. I. 1. (the Codex
Emilianus). Written in West-Gothic minuscule, and finished in
992.
9. Bamberg 601. of the 10th cent.
10. Cologne 94. of the 10th cent.
11. Paris 2279. (Formerly in the library of
St. Martial de Limoges;) of the 10th cent.
12. St. Gallen 670. of the 10th cent.
13. Trier 171. of the 10th cent.
14. Monte Cassino 71. Written in a Lombardic
hand of the end of the 11th cent.
15. Wolfenbüttel 155. (75.) of the 11th
cent.
16. Cologne 95. ofthe 12th cent.
17. Vatican 619. of the 12th cent.
Editions.
1. Liber Ep’larum beati Gregorii
Pape… (Augustæ Vindel., G. Zainer, c. 1472) fol.
2. Epiftole ex Regiftro: (cum vita Gregorii
præfixa). Venetiis per Laz. Soardum, 1505, fol.
3. Do. Parisiis, 1508, 4°.
4.
in
Gregorii Magni opera, beneficio
Bertholdi Renbolt. In edibus J. Parvi: Parrhisiis, 1518,
fol.
5. Do. ed. Franc.
Regnault. Rothomagi (Paris), 1521, fol.
6. …epiftole ex Regiftro fa’cti
Gregorii pape; At fol. ccclvi. of Opera… Paris., ex
officina Claudii Chevalon, 1523, fol.
7. Do. 1533, fol.
8. Registrum Epistolarum. Lugduni, 1539,
4°.
9. Do. ed. Guillart.
Paris., 1542, fol.
10.
in
Opera…tom. II.
Basil, 1550.
11.
in
Opera…cura Huldrici
Coccii. Basil., ap. Froben., 1564, fol.
12. Epiftolæ ex Regiftro; col. 433–825
of Vol. II. of Opera…ed. Ioannes Gillotius Campanus. Paris,
1571, fol.
13. Registrum Epistolarum. Venetiis,
1571.
14. Epistolæ ex Registro; fol. 168
v
of Vol. II. of Opera, Antverpiæ, 1572,
fol.
15. Do. Venetiis, 1583.
16. [another ed. of No. 12]. Paris.,
1586.
17. Registrum
Epistolarum; Vol. IV. of Opera…ed. Petrus Tossinianensis episc.
Vennsinus. Romæ, ex typis Vaticanis, 1588–93.
18.
in
Opera, Sixti V.…jussu
emendata…[by R. Rodulphus, bp. of Venosa]. Paris., 1605,
fol.
19.
in
Opera…Romæ, 1613,
8°.
20. Do. Duaci, 1615.
21. Do. emendata…[by P. Rodulphus.]
Antverpiæ, 1615, fol.
22. Do. Paris., 1619.
23. Do. Paris., 1640.
24. Epistolæ; col. 1027, Vol. V. Conciliorum,
studio Ph. Labbei et G. Cossartii. Paris., 1671, fol.
25.
in
Opera…ed. Petr.
Gussanvillæus, tom. II. pp. 359–1150. Paris., 1675.
fol.
26. Do.…studio &. labore monachorum ord.
Sancti Benedicti è congregatione Sancti Mauri…tom. II., col.
477–1317. Par., 1705, fol.
27.
in
Opera…ed. Gallicciolli,
tom. 7–9. Venetiis, 1768–76, 4°.
28.
in
Opera…tom. 75–79
of Migne’s Patrologia, tom. III., col. 441. Parisiis, 1849,
la. 8°.
29. Gregorii I. pap—Registrvm
epistolarvm. Tomi I. pars I. Liber i.–iv. Edidit
Pavlvs Ewald. Tomi I. pars II. Libri v.–vii. Tomi II. partes I., II. Libri
viii.–xiv. Post Pavli Ewaldi obitvm edidit Lvdovicvs
M. Hartmann. (Mon. Germ. Hist.—Epistolarum tomi I.,
II.) Berl., 1887–95, 4°.
30. —; Uebersetzt…von M.
Feyerabend. 6 vols. Kempten, 1807–9.
[See also no. 38* in list of editions of “Cura
Pastoralis.”]
The text in Migne’s ed. is a reprint of the
edition by the monks of St. Maur, of 1705.
By far the best edition of the Epistolæ yet
attempted is that begun by Ewald, who died after editing pt. I., bks.
I.–IV. The work is being continued on the same scale by L.
M. Hartmann.
Literature.
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Savini
(F.), Se il Castrum Aprutiense delle lettere di s. Gregorio Magno
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Wolfsgruber
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(Th.), Die
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