Book of pontiffs

Title(s):
  • Book of pontiffs
  • Liber pontificalis
    (Liber pontificalis, Book of pontiffs)
  • Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis
Author:
Period covered:
1st c.-846
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Biography (collective)
Remarks:
Agnellus wrote a history of the church of Ravenna, on behalf of the bishop of that city.
Edition - Translation:
  • D. Deliyannis (1994) The Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis: Critical edition and commentary. Ann Arbor.
  • D. Deliyannis (2006) Agnelli Ravennatis Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis (Corpus Christianorum: Continuatio mediaevalis, 199). Turnhout.
  • C. Nauerth (1996) Agnellus von Ravenna, Liber pontificalis: Bischofsbuch (Fontes christiani, 21). Freiburg.
  • D. Deliyannis (2004) Agnellus of Ravenna: The book of pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna (Medieval texts in translation). Washington D.C.
  • A. Testi-Rasponi (1924) Codex pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis. Bologna.
  • O. Holder-Egger (1878) Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis (Monumenta Germaniae historica: Scriptores rerum Langobardicorum). Hannover: 265-391.
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Users:
Bibliography:
  • F. Lanzoni (1909) 'Il Liber Pontificalis Ravennate'. Rivista di scienze storiche 6: 345-370, 425-464, 571-592, esp. 431-434.
  • J. Martínez Pizarro (1995) Writing Ravenna: The Liber pontificalis of Andreas Agnellus. Ann Arbor.