{"slug":"tmp1268.tmp1268.opp-lat1","id":"latin:ogl-pl:tmp1268.tmp1268.opp-lat1","title":"Edictum De Confirmatione Concilii Toletani","title_source":"Edictum De Confirmatione Concilii Toletani","author":"Recaredus Rex Visigotorum","genre":"canon-law","date":"","tradition":"latin","coverage":"not-located","coverage_claim":{"status":"not-located","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. That is not proof that none exists — translations in dissertations, recent books and other modern languages are easily missed."},"publication":{"status":"machine-draft","reviewed_by":null,"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","generated":"2026-11-15T05:59:03Z","cost_usd":0.001569},"source":{"registry_id":"latin:ogl-pl:tmp1268.tmp1268.opp-lat1","work_id":"tmp1268.tmp1268.opp-lat1","edition":"ogl-pl","language":"","license":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/patrologia_latina-dev/blob/master/data/tmp1268/tmp1268/tmp1268.tmp1268.opp-lat1.xml"},"stats":{"passages":2,"english_words":371,"coptic_letters":0,"source_letters":1573,"commentary_units":12,"commentary_kinds":7,"derived_notes":2,"ambiguities":4,"work_notes":5,"external_links":0,"timeline":6},"summary":{"work":"tmp1268.tmp1268.opp-lat1","abstract":"The Edictum De Confirmatione Concilii Toletani, issued by King Recared I (r. 586–601), confirms the decrees of the Third Council of Toledo (589), which marked the Visigothic kingdom's official conversion from Arianism to Nicene Christianity. The text survives in the canonical collection known as the Hispana, transmitted through medieval manuscripts, and is here presented from J.-P. Migne's Patrologia Latina (vol. 84). It represents a royal endorsement of conciliar authority, blending secular and ecclesiastical governance in early medieval Iberia. The edition lacks a critical apparatus, and the Latin text may contain scribal errors or later interpolations.","historical_context":"The edict was issued by King Recared I (r. 586–601) in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo, following the Third Council of Toledo in 589. This council was a pivotal event in which Recared and the Visigothic nobility renounced Arianism and embraced Nicene Christianity, ending decades of religious division between the Arian Gothic elite and the Nicene Hispano-Roman population. The edict enforces the council's canons, using language reminiscent of Roman imperial rescripts to assert the permanence of ecclesiastical decrees under royal authority. The text was transmitted as part of the Hispana, a canonical collection compiled in the 7th century and widely copied in medieval manuscripts. Its survival in the Patrologia Latina reflects later scholarly interest, but the lack of a critical edition means variants from other manuscript families are not collated. The edict was later cited in Visigothic and medieval canon law as a model for royal endorsement of conciliar decisions, influencing the integration of secular and ecclesiastical governance in Iberia.","significance":"The edict is a key document for understanding the fusion of royal and ecclesiastical authority in early medieval Iberia. It demonstrates how Visigothic kings used Roman legal forms to legitimize conciliar decrees, setting a precedent for later medieval canon law. Its transmission in the Hispana and citation in later collections underscores its role in shaping the relationship between church and state in the Iberian Peninsula.","timeline":[{"date":"586–601","event":"Reign of King Recared I of the Visigoths."},{"date":"589","event":"Third Council of Toledo; Visigothic conversion from Arianism to Nicene Christianity."},{"date":"589","event":"Edictum De Confirmatione Concilii Toletani issued by Recared I."},{"date":"7th century","event":"Compilation of the Hispana canonical collection, including the edict."},{"date":"Medieval period","event":"Transmission of the Hispana in medieval manuscripts."},{"date":"19th century","event":"Publication of the edict in J.-P. Migne's Patrologia Latina (vol. 84)."}],"relations":[{"work":"Third Council of Toledo (589) canons","relation":"The edict confirms and enforces these conciliar decrees.","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Hispana canonical collection","relation":"The edict is transmitted as part of this collection.","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Patrologia Latina, vol. 84","relation":"The present edition follows the text in this volume.","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Corpus Christianorum edition of the Hispana","relation":"Ongoing critical edition; readers seeking manuscript variation should consult it.","key":"","label":null,"url":null}],"external_links":[],"cautions":["The date of the edict is not explicitly given in the text; it is inferred from the fourth year of Recared's reign (589).","The Latin text in the Patrologia Latina may contain scribal errors or interpolations from later recensions.","Variants in other manuscript families are not collated in this edition; no critical apparatus or stemma is provided.","The phrase 'amatores nos suos' is ambiguous and may be interpreted differently."],"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","cost_usd":0.000494,"generated":"2026-11-15T05:59:03Z"},"links":[{"kind":"source","label":"Open Greek and Latin Patrologia Latina","url":"https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/patrologia_latina-dev/blob/master/data/tmp1268/tmp1268/tmp1268.tmp1268.opp-lat1.xml"}],"checks":{"work":"tmp1268.tmp1268.opp-lat1","status":"pass","blocking":[],"warnings":[],"stats":{"passages":2,"translated":2,"commentary_passages":2,"commentary_units":12,"english_words":371,"source_letters":1565,"commentary_kinds":7},"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor"},"work_notes":[{"unit":"dating","kind":"chronology","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The edict was issued by King Recared I (r. 586–601) to confirm the decrees of the Third Council of Toledo (589), which marked the Visigothic conversion from Arianism to Nicene Christianity.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The text survives in the canonical collection known as the Hispana, transmitted through medieval manuscripts; the present edition follows the text in J.-P. Migne's Patrologia Latina (vol. 84).","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The edict was cited in later Visigothic and medieval canon law as a royal endorsement of conciliar authority, influencing the integration of secular and ecclesiastical governance in Iberia.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin text in the Patrologia Latina may contain scribal errors or interpolations from later recensions; variants in other manuscript families are not collated here.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"This edition does not provide a critical apparatus or stemma; readers seeking manuscript-by-manuscript variation should consult the ongoing Corpus Christianorum edition of the Hispana.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"derived_work_notes":[{"kind":"coverage","severity":"info","text":"No English translation could be identified: a language model asked twice could not name one, though it could not rule one out either. That is not proof that none exists — translations in dissertations, recent books and other modern languages are easily missed."},{"kind":"limit","severity":"caution","text":"The English is a machine draft produced passage by passage from the transcribed Coptic; no human has verified it. The commentary is model-written and cites only keys the pipeline could resolve."},{"kind":"register","severity":"info","text":"Register: canon-law in Latin; the English keeps the liturgical formulae and the vocatives rather than normalising them."},{"kind":"structure","severity":"info","text":"Passages: 2 narrative."},{"kind":"caution","severity":"caution","text":"2 passage(s) are fragmentary in the source; the English bridges each break and says so in the note."},{"kind":"source","severity":"info","text":"Source edition: ogl-pl — Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License"}],"derived_structure":{"narrative":2},"term_index":[],"citations":{},"segments":[{"i":1,"ref":"p1","source":"VIII. RECCAREDUS, REX VISIGOTHORUM.\n\nRECCAREDI REGIS EDICTUM DE CONFIRMATIONE CONCILII TOLETANI.\n\nGloriosissimus et piissimus dominus noster Reccaredus rex.\n\nUniversorum sub regni nostri potestate consistentium amatores nos suos divina a faciens veritas, nostris principaliter sensibus inspiravit, ut causa instaurandæ fidei ac disciplinae ecclesiasticæ, episcopos omnes Hispaniae nostro praesentandos culmini jubefemus. praecedenti autein diligenti et cauta deliberatione, sivc quae ad fidem conveniunt [Rro fide vera faciunt], seu quæ ad morum correctionem respiciunt; cum epim sensus maturitate et intelligentiæ gravilate constant esse digesta, nostra proinde auctoritas id omnibus hominibus ad regnum nostrum periinentibus jubet, ut si qua delinita sunt in hoc sancto concilio, habito in urbe Toletana, anno regni nostri feliciter quarto, nulli contemnere liceat, nullus præterire præsumat; capitula enim quae nostris sensibus placita et disciplinæ cungrua a præsenti conscripta sunt synodo, in omni auctoritate, sive clericorum, sive laicorum, sive quorumcunque omnium observentur et maneant. Id est, primum, de observatione priorum canonum; alterum, de symbolo proferendo a populis in ecclesia (Vid. Mansi Con. I. IX, col. 903).","english":"VIII. RECCAREDUS, King of the Visigoths.\n\nEdict of King Reccared on the Confirmation of the Council of Toledo.\n\nOur most glorious and most pious lord, King Reccared.\n\nDivine truth, making all those dwelling under the power of our kingdom lovers of their own [subjects], has inspired especially our own minds, so that for the sake of restoring the faith and ecclesiastical discipline, we have ordered all the bishops of Spain to be presented to our summit. But after a diligent and cautious deliberation, whether those things which pertain to the faith [or which make for true faith], or those which concern the correction of morals, have been set forth with the maturity of understanding and the gravity of intelligence, our authority accordingly commands all men belonging to our kingdom that, if anything has been defined in this holy council, held in the city of Toledo in the fourth year of our reign happily, no one may be allowed to despise it, no one may presume to pass it over; for the chapters which have been pleasing to our minds and congruent with discipline, written by the present synod, are to be observed and maintained in all authority, whether of clerics, or of laity, or of any persons whatsoever. That is, first, concerning the observance of the prior canons; second, concerning the recitation of the symbol by the people in church (See Mansi, Councils, vol. IX, col. 903).","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"background","lemma":"Reccaredus rex","severity":"info","text":"Reccared I (r. 586–601) converted the Visigothic kingdom from Arianism to Nicene Christianity, a shift confirmed by the Third Council of Toledo (589). This edict enforces that council's decrees.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"amatores nos suos","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'amatores nos suos' is ambiguous: it may mean 'lovers of their own [subjects]' (as in the draft) or 'lovers of themselves' (i.e., self-lovers). The former aligns with royal beneficence rhetoric.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Id est, primum... alterum","severity":"info","text":"The final sentence lists two specific decrees appended to the edict: observance of prior canons and recitation of the creed. This suggests the edict originally included or referenced a capitulary.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"external","lemma":"Mansi Con. I. IX, col. 903","severity":"info","text":"The editor cites Mansi's collection of councils (vol. 9, col. 903) as the source for the appended decrees. This indicates the edict was transmitted as part of conciliar collections.","cites":[],"named_sources":["Mansi 1759"],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"jubefemus","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin 'jubefemus' is a non-standard form; likely a scribal error for 'iubemus' (we order). The text also has 'autein' for 'autem' and 'sivc' for 'sive', indicating careless copying.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"dating","kind":"chronology","basis":"text","lemma":"anno regni nostri feliciter quarto","severity":"info","text":"The fourth year of Reccared's reign corresponds to 589 CE, the year of the Third Council of Toledo. This aligns the edict with the council's conclusion.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'amatores nos suos' is syntactically ambiguous: it could mean 'lovers of their own [subjects]' or 'lovers of themselves'. The reading taken follows the draft's interpretation as royal beneficence.","The appended decrees ('primum... alterum') may be later additions or summaries; their exact original form is uncertain."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":2,"ref":"p2","source":"Has omnes constitutiones ecclesiasticas, quas sunmatim, breviterque perstrinximus (sieut plenios in canone continentur) manere perenni stabilitate sancimus. Si quis vero clericus, aut lateus harum ADclionum obediens esse noluerit [obediens observator esse noluerit, superba fronte majoram statutis repugnans]; si episcopus, presbyter, diaconus aut clericus fuerit, ab omni concilio excommunicationi subjaceat; si vero laicus fuerit, et bonestioris loci persona est, medietatem facultatum suarum amittit, fisci juribus profuturam; si vero inferioris loci persona est, amissione rerum suarum multatus in exsilio deputetur. Sequuntur subscriptiones.","english":"We decree that all these ecclesiastical constitutions, which we have summarized and briefly outlined (just as they are more fully contained in the canon), shall remain in perpetual stability. If, however, any cleric or layperson should be unwilling to be obedient to these enactments [should be unwilling to be an obedient observer, with proud brow resisting the statutes of superiors]; if he be a bishop, presbyter, deacon, or cleric, he shall be subject to excommunication by the entire council; if, indeed, he be a layperson, and a person of more honorable station, he shall forfeit half of his property, to accrue to the rights of the treasury; if, however, he be a person of lower station, he shall be punished by the loss of his goods and be consigned to exile. The subscriptions follow.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"perenni stabilitate","severity":"info","text":"The phrase 'perenni stabilitate' (perpetual stability) echoes the language of Roman imperial rescripts, asserting the permanence of conciliar canons under royal authority.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"excommunicationi subjaceat","severity":"info","text":"'Excommunicationi subjaceat' (shall be subject to excommunication) indicates the ecclesiastical penalty for clerics, aligning with standard canon law procedure for disobedience to conciliar decrees.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"background","lemma":"fisci juribus","severity":"info","text":"'Fisci juribus' (rights of the treasury) refers to the Roman fiscal system, where confiscated property reverted to the state treasury, a penalty adopted by Visigothic law.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Sequuntur subscriptiones","severity":"info","text":"'Sequuntur subscriptiones' (the subscriptions follow) marks the transition from the edict's text to the list of signatories, a standard closing formula in conciliar documents.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"ADclionum","severity":"caution","text":"The Latin 'ADclionum' is a textual corruption; the intended word is likely 'actionum' (enactments) or 'edictorum' (edicts), as reflected in the English draft's 'enactments'.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"background","lemma":"obediens observator esse noluerit","severity":"info","text":"The bracketed phrase 'obediens observator esse noluerit, superba fronte majoram statutis repugnans' appears to be a later gloss or variant, possibly from a manuscript tradition emphasizing clerical defiance.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The phrase 'ADclionum' is corrupt; the intended reading is uncertain but likely 'actionum' or 'edictorum'.","The bracketed clause 'obediens observator esse noluerit...' may be a scribal addition or variant, not part of the original edict."],"confidence":"high","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]}]}