The Collection of Capitularies of Ansegis

Collectio capitularium (Capitularia Ansegisi) · Ansegis of Fontenelle · 827 · canon law

Latin · domain: latin-carolingian-theology-canon · researched 2026-11-14

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS 'Ansegis capitularies English' returns nothing, and the queries that do reach Carolingian capitulary material ('Carolingian capitularies English translation', 'capitularies Franks translation') return only a 1900 University of Pennsylvania pamphlet, Selections from the Laws of Charles the Great, and Dutton's sourcebook Carolingian Civilization: A Reader, whose contents note lists a section called simply 'Capitularies' among many short excerpts. The collection itself is edited in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Capitularia regum Francorum, Nova series 1, 'Die Kapitulariensammlung des Ansegis', which is on dMGH. No English translation of the four books and their appendices was located.

Ansegis made the first systematic collection of Frankish royal legislation, arranged by topic, and it became the standard corpus that later canonists, including Benedictus Levita, built on and forged against. Because English readers meet Carolingian capitularies only in scattered sourcebook excerpts, the shape of the collection, and therefore how royal law actually reached a court, is invisible.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
dmgh · PDF scan · free access, MGH edition (dMGH) mgh_capit_n_s_1

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Ansegis of Fontenelle — 2 record(s); match basis author_only.

Record	Citation
Die Kapitulariensammlung des Ansegis Ansegisus, Saint, Abbot of Fontenelle, approximately 770-833 · 1996 · ger, lat	Ansegisus, Saint, Abbot of Fontenelle, approximately 770-833. "Die Kapitulariensammlung des Ansegis." Hannover : Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1996. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990074155590203941
Gesta abbatum fontanellensium · 1886 · lat, ger	"Gesta abbatum fontanellensium." Hannoverae : Impensis bibliopolii Hahniani, 1886. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990019517650203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The Collection of Capitularies of Ansegis” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-ansegis-collectio-capitularium