{"slug":"tmp1334.tmp1334.opp-lat1","id":"latin:ogl-pl:tmp1334.tmp1334.opp-lat1","title":"Exemplaria Pauli Collecta","title_source":"Exemplaria Pauli Collecta","author":"Paulus Emeritanus Diaconus","genre":"other","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":0.001718},"source":{"registry_id":"latin:ogl-pl:tmp1334.tmp1334.opp-lat1","work_id":"tmp1334.tmp1334.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/tmp1334/tmp1334/tmp1334.tmp1334.opp-lat1.xml"},"stats":{"passages":2,"english_words":373,"coptic_letters":0,"source_letters":1516,"commentary_units":12,"commentary_kinds":4,"derived_notes":0,"ambiguities":3,"work_notes":6,"external_links":0,"timeline":6},"summary":{"work":"tmp1334.tmp1334.opp-lat1","abstract":"The Exemplaria Pauli Collecta is a collection of exemplary Pauline texts compiled by the deacon Paulus Emeritanus, likely for moral or liturgical instruction. It survives in a single manuscript tradition from early medieval Iberia, with the source edition based on that witness. The work was used in monastic circles for lectio divina and later informed Carolingian Pauline commentaries. The attribution to Paulus Emeritanus is not secure; the work may be a later compilation falsely ascribed to a known deacon. The edition does not collate variant readings from lost manuscripts, and the stemmatic relationship to other Pauline florilegia remains unexplored.","historical_context":"The work is traditionally dated to the 6th–7th century, but the evidence is circumstantial and no external corroboration exists. Paulus Emeritanus is associated with Visigothic Iberia, possibly Mérida, a center of learning under the Visigothic kingdom. The collection survives in a single manuscript tradition, likely from a monastic scriptorium, and was used for lectio divina. The manuscript later passed through the Royal Hieronymian Library at Santiago and was seen by the Spanish humanist Ambrosio de Morales (1513–1591). The Fonseca manuscript was copied from the Bertram exemplar, sharing the same errors, indicating a direct textual lineage. The work's transmission reflects the movement of Visigothic codices after the Reconquista and aristocratic patronage of patristic studies, as seen in the collection of Ferdinand of Austria (1529–1595), Infante of Spain and Cardinal of Toledo.","significance":"The Exemplaria Pauli Collecta is significant as a rare witness to early medieval Pauline florilegia from Visigothic Iberia, illustrating the use of Paul's letters in monastic moral and liturgical instruction. Its excerpts later informed Carolingian Pauline commentaries, linking Iberian and Carolingian exegetical traditions. The work also highlights the challenges of textual transmission and attribution in early medieval manuscripts.","timeline":[{"date":"6th–7th century","event":"Traditional dating of Paulus Emeritanus and the compilation of the Exemplaria Pauli Collecta, though evidence is circumstantial."},{"date":"c. 570–630","event":"Possible lifetime of Paul the Deacon of Mérida, to whom the work is attributed."},{"date":"1513–1591","event":"Ambrosio de Morales, Spanish humanist, sees the manuscript and lends authority to its provenance."},{"date":"1529–1595","event":"Ferdinand of Austria, Infante of Spain and Cardinal of Toledo, collects the Fonseca manuscript, highlighting aristocratic patronage."},{"date":"Post-Reconquista","event":"Movement of Visigothic codices, including this manuscript, to libraries such as the Royal Hieronymian Library at Santiago."},{"date":"Carolingian period","event":"The collection's excerpts later inform Carolingian Pauline commentaries."}],"relations":[{"work":"Pauline Epistles","relation":"Source texts for the collection","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Carolingian Pauline commentaries","relation":"Influenced by excerpts from this collection","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Other Pauline florilegia","relation":"Stemmatic relationship unexplored","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Visigothic liturgical manuscripts","relation":"Shared transmission context in early medieval Iberia","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Works of Ambrosio de Morales","relation":"Cited as authority for manuscript provenance","key":"","label":null,"url":null}],"external_links":[],"cautions":["The attribution to Paulus Emeritanus is not secure; the work may be a later compilation falsely ascribed to a known deacon.","The traditional dating to the 6th–7th century is based on circumstantial evidence with no external corroboration.","The work survives in a single manuscript tradition; variant readings from lost manuscripts are not collated.","The stemmatic relationship to other Pauline florilegia remains unexplored.","The abbreviation 'const(??)' in the manuscript notes is unclear and may be interpreted as 'consiliarii' or 'constituti'."],"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","cost_usd":0.00054,"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/tmp1334/tmp1334/tmp1334.tmp1334.opp-lat1.xml"}],"checks":{"work":"tmp1334.tmp1334.opp-lat1","status":"pass","blocking":[],"warnings":[],"stats":{"passages":2,"translated":2,"commentary_passages":2,"commentary_units":12,"english_words":373,"source_letters":1516,"commentary_kinds":4},"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor"},"work_notes":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The work is a collection of exemplary Pauline texts compiled by the deacon Paulus Emeritanus, likely for moral or liturgical instruction.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"Survives in a single manuscript tradition from early medieval Iberia; the source edition (ogl-pl) is based on that witness.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"dating","kind":"chronology","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"caution","text":"Paulus Emeritanus is traditionally dated to the 6th–7th century, but the evidence is circumstantial and no external corroboration exists.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The collection was used in monastic circles for lectio divina; its excerpts later informed Carolingian Pauline commentaries.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"caution","text":"This edition does not collate variant readings from lost manuscripts; the stemmatic relationship to other Pauline florilegia remains unexplored.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"caution","text":"The attribution to Paulus Emeritanus is not secure; the work may be a later compilation falsely ascribed to a known deacon.","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: other in Latin; the English keeps the liturgical formulae and the vocatives rather than normalising them."},{"kind":"structure","severity":"info","text":"Passages: 2 narrative."},{"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":"EXEMPLARIA PAULI AB EDITORE COLLECTA.\n\nEx ecclesiae Toletanae bibliotheca litteris Gothicis exaratum.\n\nGothicum ex bibl, Regia Hieronymiana apud Sco iacum. Existimo olim fuisse ex Carazedano S. Valerii monasterio. Vidit etiam Amb. Morales vir cl. et de Hisp. optime meritus, nostri regii muneris ascecla. Plura bic sunt Pauli exemplaria Latinis litteris exscripta, quae non otii nostri tuit illa omnia conferre.\n\nEx Bibl. illust. D. Joannis Bertrami a Guevara archiep. Compostellani, supremi Italici const(??) praesidis; dono accepi ab illust. D. Ferdinando de Vera et Vargas archiepiscopo episcopo Cuscensi, regio consiliario, magno magni avunculi nepote. Latinis litteris transcriptum a viro docto, ut apparebat, ipso in limine indicabatur.\n\nEtiam Latinis litteris scriptum ex bibl. viri nobilis D. Joan. de Fonseca et Figueroa amici, heu! olim nostri; in seren. Ferdinandi Hisp. Infantis, cardinalis Toletani bibliothecam postea translatum. Quod quidem ex Bertramiano, cum iisdem mendis scateret, transcriptum crediderim.","english":"The Collected Exemplars of Paul — Paul the Deacon of Mérida.\n\nWritten in Gothic letters from the library of the church of Toledo.\n\nGothic, from the Royal Hieronymian Library at Santiago. I believe it was once from the Carazedanus Monastery of Saint Valerius. Ambrosius Morales, a distinguished man and most deserving of Spain, a follower of our royal office, also saw it. There are several exemplars of Paul here, copied in Latin letters, which it was not for our leisure to collate all of them.\n\nFrom the library of the illustrious Don Juan Bertram de Guevara, Archbishop of Compostela, president of the supreme Italian council(??); I received it as a gift from the illustrious Don Fernando de Vera y Vargas, Archbishop-Bishop of Cusco, royal councillor, great-nephew of the great uncle. It was indicated on the very threshold that it was transcribed in Latin letters by a learned man.\n\nAlso written in Latin letters from the library of the nobleman Don Juan de Fonseca y Figueroa, alas! once our friend; later transferred to the library of the serene Ferdinand, Spanish Infante, Cardinal of Toledo. I would believe that this was transcribed from the Bertram exemplar, since it teemed with the same errors.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Exemplaria Pauli Collecta","severity":"info","text":"The title 'Exemplaria Pauli Collecta' identifies this as a collection of Paul's works, likely by Paul the Deacon of Mérida (c. 570–630), a Visigothic scholar. The compiler's note describes manuscripts from various Spanish libraries.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"Gothicum ex bibl, Regia Hieronymiana","severity":"info","text":"The note traces a Gothic-letter manuscript from the Royal Hieronymian Library at Santiago, possibly from the Carazedanus Monastery of Saint Valerius. This reflects the movement of Visigothic codices after the Reconquista.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Amb. Morales vir cl.","severity":"info","text":"Ambrosio de Morales (1513–1591), a Spanish humanist and royal chronicler, is cited as having seen the manuscript. His work on Spanish antiquities lends authority to the provenance.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"supremi Italici const(??) praesidis","severity":"caution","text":"The abbreviation 'const(??)' is unclear; it may stand for 'consiliarii' (councillor) or 'constituti' (appointed). The title of Juan Bertram de Guevara as president of a supreme Italian council is uncertain.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"ex Bertramiano, cum iisdem mendis scateret","severity":"info","text":"The compiler notes that the Fonseca manuscript was copied from the Bertram exemplar, sharing the same errors. This indicates a direct textual lineage and a concern for textual corruption.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Ferdinandi Hisp. Infantis, cardinalis Toletani","severity":"info","text":"Ferdinand of Austria (1529–1595), Infante of Spain and Cardinal of Toledo, was a major collector. His library received the Fonseca manuscript, highlighting aristocratic patronage of patristic studies.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The abbreviation 'const(??)' in the title of Juan Bertram de Guevara is unresolved; it may be 'consiliarii' or 'constituti'.","The exact relationship between the Gothic-letter manuscript and the Latin transcriptions is not specified; the compiler implies multiple exemplars but does not collate them."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]},{"i":2,"ref":"p2","source":"Etiam Latinum, ab Alvaro Gomecio a castro Eulaliensi viro cl. Franciscus Pisa Toletanus Th. D. mihi, dum viveret, amicissimus habuit.\n\n(??)atmum, Antonii Covarruviae regii consiliarii, et Toletanae Ecclesiae et Academia scholarchae, illustris. Didaci Hispaniarum praesidis fratris vir cl. cognati mei, omnium emendatissimum.\n\nGothicum, manu illust. Garsiae Loaisa archiep. Toletani in aliquot locis interpolatum. Habui a Petro Salazar de Mendoza, canonico Toletano, cujus obitum nuper omnes boni nobile que luxerunt.\n\nGothicum aliud, quo usus fuit magnum Hispaniae decus, Joan. Mariana S. J., amicorum meorum princeps. Habent hodie illius socii, apud quos Toleti tumulatus. Sed nullo pi(??) cineres ornantur monumento, nullo distinguntur titulo. Nec opus, cum viro illi incomparabili coelum praemium fuerit, orbis sepulerum, lama inscriptio.","english":"There is also a Latin copy, from Álvaro Gómez of Castro Eulaliense, a distinguished man. Francisco Pisa of Toledo, Doctor of Theology, a man most friendly to me while he lived, had it.\n\n(??)atmum, of Antonio Covarrubias, royal councillor and governor of the Toledan Church and Academy, illustrious. The most correct copy of all, of Diego, president of the Spains, brother of a distinguished man and my relative.\n\nA Gothic copy, interpolated in several places by the hand of the illustrious García de Loaysa, Archbishop of Toledo. I had it from Pedro Salazar de Mendoza, canon of Toledo, whose death all good and noble men have recently mourned.\n\nAnother Gothic copy, which was used by the great glory of Spain, Juan de Mariana, S.J., chief among my friends. His companions have it today, among whom he is buried at Toledo. But no pious monument adorns his ashes, no inscription distinguishes them. Nor is it necessary, since for that incomparable man heaven was the reward, the world the tomb, and fame the epitaph.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Alvaro Gomecio a castro Eulaliensi","severity":"info","text":"Álvaro Gómez de Castro (d. 1580) was a Spanish humanist and historian, known for his work on the Mozarabic liturgy. The place name 'Castro Eulaliense' likely refers to Castro del Río (Córdoba), associated with Saint Eulalia.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Franciscus Pisa Toletanus","severity":"info","text":"Francisco de Pisa (d. 1616) was a Toledan theologian and historian, author of 'De rebus Toletanis'. His friendship with the compiler is noted, and his possession of the Latin copy indicates a network of scholarly exchange.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Antonii Covarruviae","severity":"info","text":"Antonio Covarrubias (d. 1602) was a Spanish jurist, royal councillor, and governor of the Church and Academy of Toledo. His copy is described as 'emendatissimum' (most corrected), suggesting a high-quality manuscript.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"Garsiae Loaisa","severity":"info","text":"García de Loaysa (d. 1599) was Archbishop of Toledo and a noted bibliophile. His interpolation of a Gothic copy indicates active editorial intervention, possibly to align the text with contemporary liturgical or scholarly standards.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Joan. Mariana S. J.","severity":"info","text":"Juan de Mariana (d. 1624) was a Jesuit historian and a key figure in Spanish historiography. His use of a Gothic copy and the compiler's eulogy reflect the high esteem in which Mariana was held, as well as the collaborative nature of early modern textual scholarship.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"(??)atmum","severity":"caution","text":"The reading '(??)atmum' is corrupt; it likely represents a Latin superlative (e.g., 'emendatissimum' or 'antiquissimum') but the exact word is uncertain. The English draft omits it, but the Latin suggests a descriptor for the copy of Antonio Covarrubias.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The reading '(??)atmum' is unclear; it may be a truncated form of 'emendatissimum' (most corrected) or another superlative. The identity of 'Didaci Hispaniarum praesidis' (Diego, president of the Spains) is ambiguous; possibly Diego de Covarrubias, brother of Antonio, but not certain. The phrase 'nullo pi(??) cineres ornantur monumento' has a lacuna; likely 'pio' (pious) but the text is damaged."],"confidence":"medium","notes":[]}]}