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Rule for Monks

Regula ad monachos · Aurelian of Arles · c. 546-551 · treatise

Latin · domain: latin-monastic-rules · 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

Four HOLLIS searches ('Regula Aureliani', 'Aurelian of Arles rule', 'Aurelian bishop Arles Regula ad monachos', 'Aurelian of Arles works translation') return no English translation of any work by Aurelian; the only relevant hit is a general anthology of liturgical sources ('Worship in the early church', Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2009) which contains none of his rules. The Latin text survives in Migne and is available in TEI from Corpus Corporum (Patrologia Latina, work 'Regula ad monachos', text idno 7887, 3,840 words, fetched HTTP 200). No English version appears in the standard series (Fathers of the Church, Ancient Christian Writers, Translated Texts for Historians, Cistercian Publications) as returned by these searches.

Aurelian, archbishop of Arles, wrote this rule for the monastery of St. Stephen at Arles and it stands beside Caesarius's rules as evidence for how a bishop legislated for a community under his own authority. It is short (3,840 words), of obvious importance for the transmission of the Regula Magistri and the Rule of Benedict in Gaul, and completely inaccessible in English.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

Source and licence
corpus-corporum · TEI · public domain (Migne, Patrologia Latina; TEI by Corpus Corporum, University of Zurich)
7887

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: "Rule for Monks" — 7 record(s); match basis title_only.

RecordCitation
St. Benedict's rule for monks : selected passages from the Rule of St. Benedict
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino · 1987 · eng
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. "St. Benedict's rule for monks : selected passages from the Rule of St. Benedict." Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications, c1987. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990012818910203941
Historical notes on St. Benedict's Rule for monks
Schuster, Ildefonso, 1880-1954 · 1962 c1961 · eng
Schuster, Ildefonso, 1880-1954. "Historical notes on St. Benedict's Rule for monks." Hamden, Conn., Shoe String Press, 1962 [c1961], 1962 c1961. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990035938610203941
Four faces of anger : Seneca, Evagrius Ponticus, Cassian, and Augustine
Gillette, Gertrude · 2010 · eng
Gillette, Gertrude. "Four faces of anger : Seneca, Evagrius Ponticus, Cassian, and Augustine." Lanham [Maryland] : University Press of America, c2010. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990125433190203941
Celtic spirituality
· 1999 · eng
"Celtic spirituality." New York : Paulist Press, 1999. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990082610990203941
Saint Bernard's three-course banquet : humility, charity, and contemplation in the De gradibus
Bonowitz, Bernard · ©2013 · eng
Bonowitz, Bernard. "Saint Bernard's three-course banquet : humility, charity, and contemplation in the De gradibus." Trappist, Ky. : Cistercian Publications ; Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, ©2013. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990140505930203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Rule for Monks” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-aurelian-regula-monachorum