Gregory I, Dialogi

for manuscripts containing only book 2 (Vita Benedicti), see below.
for manuscripts containing fragments, see below.

Data is still incomplete

CPL 1713

Incipit:
Quadam die, nimiis quorundam saecularium tumultum
...
Quadam die dum nimiis quorundam saecularium tumultum...

Editions:
  • De Vogüé, Adalbert and Paul Antin, Sources Chrétiennes, vol. 251/260/265, Paris 1978-1980.
  • Patrologia Latina, vol. 77, col. 147-432.
Translations:
  • online
  • Gregory the Great, Dialogues, transl. Odo John Zimmermann, Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press 2002.
Manuscripts of the complete text:

Agen, Bibliothèque Municipale 1
s. XV
fol. 1-129
catalogue
Autun, Bibliothèque Municipale 20
s. VIII2

digital manuscript
MS H in ed. SC 260/265
Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Ms. theol. lat. fol. 576
s. XII3/4
fol. 1-13v
only book 4; catalogue
Chartres, Bibliothèque Municipale 89 (37) s. IX and s. X     
fol. 2-115
catalogue
Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana C 24 inf.
s. XII
fol. 2v-139
catalogue
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm. 6293
after 811
fol. 1-65v and 152-152v (excerpts)
image; catalogue
Schlägl, Stiftsbibliothek Codex Plagensis
8 (817. 150)
s. XIII
fol. 1v-95v
Hill Manuscript Library
Siena, Biblioteca Communale degli Intronati F.V.4 s. XIV2/2 fol. 1-79
catalogue
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 213 s. VIIImed pp. 5-150     Ms G in ed SC 260/265; imgage
Vienna, Nationalbibliothek 3994 s. XV
fol. 1-67v
Hill Manuscript Library
Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, M. p. th. q. 53

fol. 125v-127v (fragment?)
catalogue
Zerbst, Francisceumsbibliothek, Mscr. 6
s. XI
fol. 1-133v
catalogue


Vita Benedicti (Dialogi, book 2)

BHL 1102

Incipit: Fuit vir vitae venerabilis, gratia Benedictus et nomine...

Manuscripts:

Angers, Bibliothèque Municipale 321 (312) s. XV
fol. 111-119v
catalogue
Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek 836
s. XV
fol. 1-79v
catalogue
Orléans, Bibliothèque Municipale 341 (289) s. IX-X pp. 1-22 catalogue
Paris, BN n.a. lat. 2289

fol. 17v-34
catalogue
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 552 s. IX pp. 197-250 image; catalogue
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vatacana, Reg. lat. 528
s. IX-X    
fol. 193-209

Würzburg Universitätsbibliothek M.p.th.q.15 s. X fol. 145v-148v verify, probably error on BHLms

Fragments and excerpts

Manuscripts:

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 6293
s. VIII-IX
fol. 1v-64v
book 1, ch. 1-4
 CLA IX, 1262
catalogue

Barcelona, Biblioteca Capitular
s. VII-VIII

book 4, ch. 38
one folio




Literature:
  • De Vogüé, Adalbert and Paul Antin, Sources Chrétiennes, vol. 251, Paris 1978.
  • Clark, Francis, The Pseud-Gregorian Dialogues, Leiden 1987.
  • Del Santo, Matthew, ‘The Shadow of a Doubt? A Note on the Dialogues and Registrum Epistolarum of Pope Gregory the Great (590-604)’, in: Journal of Ecclesiastical History 61 (2010), pp. 3-17.