Columbanus, Regula coenobialis
Also called Columbanus, Paenitentiale
(not to be confused with his penitential and with his 'Regula monachorum')
CPL 1109
Incipit:
Incipit Regula Coenobialis Patrum. De confessione ante mensam sive lectorum... (table of content);
Diversitas culparum diversitatis paenitentiae medicamento sanari debet (ch. 1).
See also Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition
Editions:
- Walker, G.S.M, Columbani Opera, Dublin 1956, pp. 144-168, also online.
- Patrologia Latina, vol. 80, col. 216-224.
Translations:
- Ed.Walker provides English face-to-face translation.
- Auf der Maur, Ivo, Columban von Luxeuil. Mönchsregeln, St. Ottilien: Eos Verlag 2007.
2 versions: shorter recension and longer recension
Some manuscripts may contain the Regula monachorum instead of the Regula coenobialis.
| St.
Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek Cod. 915 |
s. X |
pp. 170-184 |
Ms. G |
as Regula coenobialis; shorter recension, combined with Regula monachorum and Sermo 5; image on CESG |
| Munich, Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14949 (Em. w. 6) |
s. XV |
fol. 1-8 |
Ms. E |
shorter recension,
combined with Regula monachorum
and Sermo 5 |
| Salzburg, St.
Peterstift b IX 20 |
s. XV |
fol. 1-3v |
Ms.
Sigma |
shorter recension,
combined with Regula monachorum;
Hill
Manuscript Library |
| Vienna,
Nationalbibliothek 1550 |
s.XII-XIII
|
fol. 74v-79v |
Ms. Vi |
shorter recension,
probably combined with Regula Monachrum;
related to Ms. E but also to Ms. C, Hill
Manuscript Library |
| Munich,
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 28118 |
s. IXin |
fol. 89-92v |
Ms. C |
Incipit penitentialis
eiusem, longer recension, combined with Regula monachorum;
digital
image |
| Cologne,
Stadtbibliothek
W. 231 |
1465-1467 |
fol. 76-79v |
Ms. Co |
longer recension, combined with Regula monachorum, direct copy of Ms. C |
| Lambach,
Stiftsbibliothek 31 |
s. IX |
fol. 97-103 |
not used in Walker |
combined with Regula monachorum
and Sermo 5 |
| Lilienfeld,
Stiftsbibliohtek 113 |
s. XV |
fol. 117-118v | Hill
Manuscript Library, Kleinmariazell |
|
| Paris,
BN lat. 4333B |
s. VIII-IX |
fol. 37-50v |
not used in Walker |
catalogue;
image |
| Klosterneuburg, Augustiner-Chorherrenstift, Cod. 587 | s. XII |
fol. 53r-57v |
not used in Walker |
Hill
Manuscript Library |
| Klosterneuburg, Augustiner-Chorherrenstift, Cod. 570 | s. XIV |
fol. 83v-88r |
not used in Walker |
Hill
Manuscript Library |
| Graz,
Univ.-Bibl. 480 (39/47 f.) |
s. XII |
fol. 39-41v |
not used in Walker |
Hill
Manuscript Library |
| Graz, Univ.-Bibl. 655
(36/37 f.) |
s. XV |
fol. 264-264v |
not used in Walker |
Hill
Manuscript Library; unclear, maybe excerpt of Regula monachorum |
| Admont,
Stiftsbibliothek 331 |
s. XIII |
fol. 38 |
not used in Walter |
Hill Manuscript Library |
| Göttweig,
Stiftsbibliothek 112 (57) |
s. XII |
fol. 37-40 |
not used in Walker |
Hill
Manuscript Library |
| Salzburg,
Stiftsbibliothek
St.-Peter b.IX.20 |
s. XV |
fol. 1-3v | not used in Walker | Hill Manuscript Library |
- Fragments of the Regula coenobialis can be found in Benedict of Aniane's Concordia Regularum.
- Parts of chapter 5-6 appear in the Collectio Vetus
Gallica XLVI,26, ed. Hubert Mordek, Kirchenrecht
und Reform im Frankenreich, Berlin: De Gruyter 1975,
pp. 539-540.
- Large sections are incorporated in the Regula Donati.
- Stevenson, Jane Barbara, ‘The Monastic Rules of Columbanus’, in: Michael Lapidge (Hrsg.), Columbanus. Studies on the Latin Writings, Woodbridge 1997 (Studies in Celtic History, vol. 17), pp. 203-216.
- Diem, Albrecht, Das monastische Experiment: Die Rolle der Keuschheit bei der Entstehung des westlichen Klosterwesens, Vita Regularis, Abhandlungen, vol. 24, Münster: LIT-Verlag 2005, pp. 241-243.
- online bibliography.