Le Liber pontificalis: texte, introduction et commentaire
Louis Duchesne · 1886 · Latin West · public-domain-original
28 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
Bishops it dates
Rome — Liber pontificalis I, commentary on the early lives
People it attests
- Alexander I 1 claim
- Anacletus 1 claim
- Anicetus 1 claim
- Clement of Rome 1 claim
- Evaristus 1 claim
- Hyginus 1 claim
- Pius I 1 claim
- Pope Linus 1 claim
- Sixtus I 1 claim
- Stephen II 1 claim
- Telesphorus 1 claim
Events it narrates
Glosses drawn from it
- The years before the list office
How the record stands on them
- Saint Cecilia traditional — t. I, Introduction, p. xciii, para. 26 — the notice of Urban I is borrowed from the Passio s. Caeciliae, 'un document qui parait etre du cinquieme siecle'
What else rests on it
4 gloss subjects
The critical edition that turned the Liber Pontificalis from a source into a document with a history. Duchesne separated its layers, dated its recensions, and showed where its early lives are copying the Liberian Catalogue and where they are filling gaps by arithmetic. Volume 1 (1886) carries the text and commentary to the eighth century; volume 2 (1892) continues it; the Etude of 1877 is the argument in short. FRENCH. He is a critical Catholic scholar of the 1880s writing about the Roman see, and where his conclusions bear on the see's antiquity they are conclusions, not data.