Corpus scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum

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The Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum , abbreviated CSEL , is a scientific publication series that publishes critical text editions of the works of the Latin Christian writers of late antiquity. The series is published by the CSEL office at the University of Salzburg .

description

Since 1866, the CSEL has been collecting the writings of Latin Christian authors from the end of the 2nd century ( Tertullian ) to the beginning of the 8th century ( Beda Venerabilis , † 735) on the basis of all extant manuscripts and according to the latest philological status Editing technique made available in a critical text that comes as close as possible to the original. The volumes also include an introduction in which the basics and principles of text creation are explained. Editions are partly created by the CSEL team, partly by external experts, and after a positive evaluation process, published by De Gruyter Verlag (until 2012: Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften ). To avoid parallel work, the CSEL operates the online database Edenda, in which its own as well as third-party edition projects are announced. In order to facilitate time-consuming research for manuscripts, the office publishes special catalogs for the particularly richly survived writings of Augustine . Also out of the series, monographs on topics of the Latin patristic epoch as well as conference papers appear at irregular intervals. The Specimina einer Lexicon Augustinianum (SLA) is a collection of lexicographical articles on Augustine's language.

history

The CSEL was initiated by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1864 in order to base the lexicographical work of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae , which was then in the planning stage, on the foundation of scientifically proven texts for late antiquity as well. Until 2012 the CSEL was published by the “Commission for the publication of the corpus of the Latin Church Fathers” (“Church Fathers Commission”) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; the chairmen of this commission were:

Since the commission was transferred to the University of Salzburg in 2012, the CSEL has appeared in the Department of Classical Studies / Latin Studies under the aegis of the CSEL office (headed by Dorothea Weber ).

Evaluation

The series currently comprises around 100 volumes, some of which have several sub-volumes; some of the older volumes are available in an updated second edition. This means that around a third of the volumes in JP Mignes Patrologia Latina relating to late antiquity are now obsolete by a scientifically based replacement; some CSEL volumes have for their part become obsolete due to more recent critical text editions ( Corpus Christianorum Series Latina, Sources chrétiennes , Bibliothèque augustinienne ...), but about two thirds are still considered to be authoritative standard editions ; It is not uncommon for the CSEL to have the only critical edition of a work. In the course of the work on the special catalogs and in connection with the creation of CSEL editions, it was possible to find works that were generally thought to be lost: the writings of the Spanish heretic Priscillian , the Apocalypse commentary by Victorinus von Pettau , 29 unknown Augustine letters (“Epistulae Divjak "), Six sermons by Augustine (" Sermones Erfurt ") and the complete text of the commentary on the Gospels by Fortunatianus of Aquileia (mid-4th century; edition in preparation). Numerous volumes of the CSEL have been included in electronic form in the Library of Latin Texts (LLT).

literature

  • Rudolf Hanslik : 100 years of the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum. In: Anzeiger der philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 101 (1964), 21–35.
  • Michaela Zelzer : A century (and more) CSEL. Evaluation of goal and publications. In: Sacris Erudiri 38 (1998), 75-99.
  • Dorothea Weber : 150 years of the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum. In: Victoria Zimmerl-Panagl, Lukas Dorfbauer, Clemens Weidmann (eds.): Edition and research into Latin patristic texts. 150 years of CSEL. Festschrift for Kurt Smolak . Berlin 2014, IX – XI.
  • Corpus scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum. I – XCV, Vienna 1866–2002.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Employee team
  2. ↑ Edenda
  3. ↑ The handwritten tradition of the works of St. Augustine
  4. ↑ CSEL Extra seriem
  5. ^ Department of Classical Studies ( Memento from February 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ People - CSEL
  7. ↑ volumes
  8. ↑ CSEL 18, Vienna 1889, ed. Georg Schepps
  9. ↑ CSEL 49, Vienna 1916, ed. Johannes Haussleiter
  10. ↑ CSEL 88, Vienna 1981, ed.Johannes Divjak
  11. ↑ Wiener Studien 121 (2008), 227–284 and 122 (2009), 171–213, ed. Isabella Schiller, Dorothea Weber, Clemens Weidmann, see New Augustinus Sermons
  12. ↑ see commentary on the Gospels by Bishop Fortunatian of Aquileia (mid 4th century)