{"slug":"tmp877.tmp877.opp-lat1","id":"latin:ogl-pl:tmp877.tmp877.opp-lat1","title":"Canones Alii Sancti Patricio Ascripti","title_source":"Canones Alii Sancti Patricio Ascripti","author":"Patricius","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":"2026-11-15T05:58:48Z","cost_usd":0.001668},"source":{"registry_id":"latin:ogl-pl:tmp877.tmp877.opp-lat1","work_id":"tmp877.tmp877.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/tmp877/tmp877/tmp877.tmp877.opp-lat1.xml"},"stats":{"passages":2,"english_words":382,"coptic_letters":0,"source_letters":1417,"commentary_units":12,"commentary_kinds":7,"derived_notes":1,"ambiguities":4,"work_notes":6,"external_links":0,"timeline":5},"summary":{"work":"tmp877.tmp877.opp-lat1","abstract":"The Canones Alii Sancti Patricio Ascripti are a supplementary set of canons traditionally attributed to Saint Patrick, likely compiled in early medieval Ireland between the 6th and 8th centuries. They form part of the Irish canonical tradition, often appended to the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis, and address ecclesiastical discipline, penance, and clerical conduct. The canons blend native Irish legal customs with Latin canonical norms, reflecting the fusion of indigenous and Christian traditions. They survive in several medieval manuscripts, though no single authoritative witness exists. The text influenced later Irish penitentials and early medieval canon law in Britain and the Continent, particularly through the Hibernensis collection. The present edition is a modern collation without critical apparatus, and the attribution to Patrick is traditional, not contemporary.","historical_context":"The Canones Alii were likely compiled in early medieval Ireland, probably between the 6th and 8th centuries, within monastic scriptoria that produced the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis. This collection circulated widely in Carolingian Europe, influencing continental canon law. The canons reflect a church structure where abbots and bishops held overlapping authority, and penitential practice included peregrinatio (enforced exile) as a distinctive Irish feature. The text survives in manuscripts from continental libraries, indicating transmission by Irish missionaries. The attribution to Patrick (5th century) is a later ascription, common in Irish canonical collections to lend authority. The canons address practical issues like church theft, clerical misconduct, and community property, blending biblical citations (e.g., Acts 4:32-35) with secular penalties such as mutilation or exile. The lack of a critical edition means textual variants and interpolations remain unmarked.","significance":"The Canones Alii are significant as a witness to early medieval Irish canon law and its fusion of native and Latin traditions. They influenced later penitentials and the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis, which shaped ecclesiastical discipline in Carolingian Europe. The canons also illustrate the development of penitential exile (peregrinatio) and the integration of biblical models into legal practice.","timeline":[{"date":"5th c.","event":"Traditional date of Saint Patrick's mission in Ireland."},{"date":"6th–8th c.","event":"Probable compilation of the Canones Alii in Irish monastic scriptoria."},{"date":"8th–9th c.","event":"Incorporation into the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis, which circulates in Carolingian Europe."},{"date":"Medieval period","event":"Manuscript transmission of the canons, often appended to Hibernensis collections."},{"date":"Modern era","event":"Edition published in the ogl-pl series based on collation of manuscript witnesses."}],"relations":[{"work":"Collectio Canonum Hibernensis","relation":"The Canones Alii are often appended to this major Irish canonical collection.","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Canones Hibernenses","relation":"The Canones Alii are a supplementary set to this earlier collection.","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Irish Penitentials","relation":"The canons influenced later Irish penitential literature, especially regarding peregrinatio.","key":"","label":null,"url":null},{"work":"Acts of the Apostles","relation":"The canons quote Acts 4:32-35 and reference Ananias (Acts 5:1-5) to support ecclesiastical unity.","key":"","label":null,"url":null}],"external_links":[],"cautions":["The attribution to Saint Patrick is traditional and not contemporary; the canons likely date from the 6th–8th centuries.","No single authoritative manuscript exists; the edition is a modern collation without critical apparatus.","The Latin text may contain scribal errors or interpolations not flagged in the present edition.","The title 'Canones Alii Sancti Patricio Ascripti' is a modern editorial label, not found in early manuscripts."],"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor","provider":"Relace","cost_usd":0.000474,"generated":"2026-11-15T05:58:48Z"},"links":[{"kind":"source","label":"Open Greek and Latin Patrologia Latina","url":"https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/patrologia_latina-dev/blob/master/data/tmp877/tmp877/tmp877.tmp877.opp-lat1.xml"}],"checks":{"work":"tmp877.tmp877.opp-lat1","status":"pass","blocking":[],"warnings":[],"stats":{"passages":2,"translated":2,"commentary_passages":2,"commentary_units":12,"english_words":382,"source_letters":1412,"commentary_kinds":7},"model":"deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash:floor"},"work_notes":[{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The Canones Alii are a set of supplementary canons attributed to Patrick, likely compiled in early medieval Ireland. They address ecclesiastical discipline, penance, and clerical conduct, reflecting a fusion of native Irish and Latin canonical traditions.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"dating","kind":"chronology","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"caution","text":"The attribution to Patrick (5th century) is traditional and not contemporary. The canons probably date from the 6th–8th centuries, as part of the Irish canonical collection known as the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"The text survives in several medieval manuscripts, often appended to the Canones Hibernenses. The present edition (ogl-pl) is based on a collation of these witnesses, but no single authoritative manuscript is identified.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"info","text":"These canons were cited in later Irish penitentials and influenced early medieval canon law in Britain and the Continent, particularly through the Collectio Canonum Hibernensis, which circulated widely in Carolingian Europe.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"sense","kind":"sense","basis":"text","lemma":"","severity":"caution","text":"This edition does not provide a critical apparatus or variant readings. The Latin text may contain scribal errors or interpolations not flagged here. Users should consult the manuscript tradition for textual criticism.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"background","lemma":"","severity":"caution","text":"The title 'Canones Alii Sancti Patricio Ascripti' is a modern editorial label. No early manuscript ascribes these canons directly to Patrick; the attribution is inferred from their association with other Patrician material.","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":"1 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":"CANONES ALII S. PATRICIO ATTRIBUTI, E codice ms. collegii Benedictini Cantabrigiæ descripti.\n\nDe unitate subditorum\n\nQuis ergo audet scindere unitatem, quam nemo hominum solvere vel reprehendere potest? Multitudinis autem credentium erat cor unum et anima una, et nulla erat separatio in eis, nec quisquam ex bonis suis dicebat esse aliquid: sed erant illis omnia communia. Gratia quoque erat magna super illos omnes, nec in eis aliquis indigens. Nam quicunque possessores agro rum aut domorum erant, vendentes afferebant pretia illorum et ponebant ante [pedes] apostolorum; et dividebatur unicuique ut opus erat (Act. IV, 32-35). DeinJe: Quidam autem vir nomine Angnias, etc., usque ad illa verba: Audiens autem Ananias hæc verba, cecidit et exspiravit (Act. v, 1-5).\n\nII.\n\nDe furto in ecclesia peracto.\n\nQui furatus fuerit pecuniam ab ecclesia sancta ubi martyres et corpora sanctorum dormiunt, illius mauus vel pes circumcidatur, aut in carcerem mittatur, aut in peregrinationem ejiciatur, et restituat duplum; ct jurabit quod non revertetur donce impleverit pænitentiam.","english":"OTHER CANONS ATTRIBUTED TO SAINT PATRICK, described from a manuscript of the Benedictine College at Cambridge.\n\nOn the unity of subjects\n\nWho then dares to break the unity, which no man can dissolve or reprove? But the multitude of believers had one heart and one soul, and there was no division among them, nor did anyone claim anything from his own goods as his own: but all things were common to them. Moreover, great grace was upon them all, and none among them was in need. For whoever were possessors of fields or houses, selling them, they brought their prices and placed them before the feet of the apostles; and it was distributed to each as was necessary (Acts 4:32-35). Then: But a certain man named Ananias, etc., up to those words: But Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and expired (Acts 5:1-5).\n\nII.\n\nOn theft committed in a church.\n\nWhoever has stolen money from a holy church where martyrs and the bodies of saints rest, that person’s hand or foot shall be cut off, or he shall be sent to prison, or he shall be cast out into pilgrimage, and he shall restore double; and he shall swear that he will not return until he has fulfilled the penance.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"Canones Alii Sancti Patricio Ascripti","severity":"info","text":"The title indicates this is a second set of canons attributed to Patrick, distinct from the earlier collection in the same manuscript tradition.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":["ogl-pl"]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Act. IV, 32-35","severity":"info","text":"The passage quotes Acts 4:32-35, describing apostolic community of goods, to support the argument for ecclesiastical unity.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":["ogl-pl"]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Act. v, 1-5","severity":"info","text":"The reference to Ananias (Acts 5:1-5) serves as a cautionary tale against fraud within the church community.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":["ogl-pl"]},{"unit":"background","kind":"background","basis":"text","lemma":"De furto in ecclesia peracto","severity":"info","text":"The penalty for church theft—mutilation, imprisonment, or exile—reflects early medieval Irish penitential practice, blending secular and ecclesiastical sanctions.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":["ogl-pl"]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"peregrinationem","severity":"info","text":"Peregrinatio here denotes enforced exile as a penitential act, a distinctive feature of early Irish canon law.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":["ogl-pl"]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"E codice ms. collegii Benedictini Cantabrigiæ descripti","severity":"info","text":"The source manuscript from the Benedictine College at Cambridge (now part of the University Library) indicates a continental transmission of Irish canon law.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":["ogl-pl"]}],"ambiguities":["The attribution to Patrick is traditional and not historically verifiable; the canons likely date from later Irish ecclesiastical compilation.","The phrase 'DeinJe' in the Latin text is a scribal abbreviation or corruption; the intended reading is probably 'Deinde'."],"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":"III.\n\nDe veris viduis.\n\nDe veris viduis Paulus: Vidua eligatur non minus annorum 60, unius viri uxor (I Tim. v, 9). Muta: Si plures viros habuerit, vidua non sit.\n\nAdjicinntur deinde mox sequentes duo canones: ed an S. Patricii, vel cujus sint, e ms. Benedictino non liquet. Eorum vero posterior in codice Cottoniano canonum, lit. 66, diserte synodo Hiberniensi ascribitur.\n\nI. De eo quod non repudianda sit, si sterilis, si deformis est, si ætate vetula, si fetida, si temulenta, si iracunda, si jurgatrix, tenenda sit velis nolis. Qualiscunque accepta sit, tenenda est.\n\nII. Omnis adulter sive a concelebratione, sive a communicatione mensæ, sive a colloquio, sive a comitatu, usque dum poeniteat, excludendus est","english":"III.\n\nConcerning True Widows.\n\nConcerning true widows, Paul says: Let a widow be chosen not less than 60 years of age, the wife of one man (1 Tim. 5:9). The change: If she has had more husbands, she is not a widow.\n\nThere are then added, immediately following, these two canons: but whether they are of St. Patrick, or whose they are, is not clear from the Benedictine manuscript. However, the latter of them in the Cottonian manuscript of canons, letter 66, is expressly ascribed to a Hibernian synod.\n\nI. Concerning the fact that she is not to be repudiated, if she is sterile, if she is deformed, if she is aged, if she is foul-smelling, if she is drunken, if she is wrathful, if she is quarrelsome, she is to be kept whether you will or not. However she was accepted, she is to be kept.\n\nII. Every adulterer is to be excluded, whether from concelebration, or from communion of the table, or from conversation, or from companionship, until he repents.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[{"unit":"structure","kind":"structure","basis":"text","lemma":"III. De veris viduis.","severity":"info","text":"This heading introduces a new canon on true widows, distinct from the preceding material on unity. The numbering suggests a separate section within the collection.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"scripture","kind":"scripture","basis":"text","lemma":"Vidua eligatur non minus annorum 60, unius viri uxor (I Tim. v, 9)","severity":"info","text":"The canon quotes 1 Timothy 5:9 (Vulgate numbering), which prescribes that a widow be at least 60 years old and the wife of one man. The Vulgate text reads 'Vidua eligatur non minus annorum sexaginta, unius viri uxor.'","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"term","kind":"term","basis":"text","lemma":"Muta","severity":"info","text":"'Muta' (change) signals an adaptation of the Pauline rule: if a woman has had more than one husband, she is not considered a true widow. This reflects a stricter interpretation than the biblical text.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"transmission","kind":"transmission","basis":"text","lemma":"Adjicinntur deinde mox sequentes duo canones: ed an S. Patricii, vel cujus sint, e ms. Benedictino non liquet.","severity":"info","text":"The editor notes uncertainty about the attribution of the following two canons to St. Patrick, based on the Benedictine manuscript. This highlights the fluidity of canon collections in the Hiberno-Latin tradition.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"reception","kind":"reception","basis":"text","lemma":"Eorum vero posterior in codice Cottoniano canonum, lit. 66, diserte synodo Hiberniensi ascribitur.","severity":"info","text":"The second of the two canons is explicitly ascribed to a Hibernian synod in the Cottonian manuscript (Cotton MS, letter 66). This suggests that some canons in the Patrician collection may have originated from synodal decrees.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]},{"unit":"caution","kind":"caution","basis":"text","lemma":"I. De eo quod non repudianda sit, si sterilis, si deformis est, si ætate vetula, si fetida, si temulenta, si iracunda, si jurgatrix, tenenda sit velis nolis.","severity":"caution","text":"The list of grounds for non-repudiation (sterility, deformity, old age, foul smell, drunkenness, wrath, quarrelsomeness) is unusually exhaustive and may reflect a local Irish context. The phrase 'velis nolis' (whether you will or not) underscores the indissolubility of marriage.","cites":[],"named_sources":[],"dropped_cites":[]}],"ambiguities":["The attribution of the two canons following 'De veris viduis' to St. Patrick is uncertain; the editor notes that the Benedictine manuscript does not clarify their origin.","The term 'Muta' could be interpreted as a textual variant or a deliberate emendation; the reading taken is that it signals a change to the Pauline rule."],"confidence":"high","notes":[]}]}