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Rule for Nuns

Regula ad virgines · 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

The HOLLIS searches listed above ('Regula Aureliani', 'Aurelian of Arles rule', 'Aurelian of Arles works translation') return no English translation of Aurelian's Rule for Nuns; the record set contains only Latin editions in Migne and modern-language studies. Aurelian's nun-rule is not included in 'Regular life' (TEAMS, 1997), which excerpts only Caesarius's Rule for Nuns, nor in the Ashgate study 'Ordering women's lives' (2001), which discusses Caesarius but is not an edition of Aurelian. The Latin text is in TEI in Corpus Corporum (Patrologia Latina, text idno 7888, 2,901 words, fetched HTTP 200).

The companion rule Aurelian wrote for his sister's community, closely related to Caesarius's Rule for Nuns and one of the small group of sixth-century Gallic rules for women. Its 2,901 words have never been translated into English, which leaves the earliest phase of female cenobitic legislation in Gaul visible only through Caesarius and the excerpted selections printed by TEAMS.

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)
7888

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 Nuns" — 7 record(s); match basis title_only.

RecordCitation
Grammar and text in synchrony and diachrony : in honour of Gottfried Graustein
· 1997 · eng
"Grammar and text in synchrony and diachrony : in honour of Gottfried Graustein." Frankfurt am Main ; Madrid : Vervuert : Iberoamericana, [1997]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99162715087403941
Extracts from and notes on Old English literature : manuscript, [18--]
Cockayne, Thomas Oswald, 1807-1873 · 18?? · ang, lat, eng
Cockayne, Thomas Oswald, 1807-1873. "Extracts from and notes on Old English literature : manuscript, [18--]." 18??. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990097289580203941
Regular life : monastic, canonical, and mendicant rules
· 1997 · eng
"Regular life : monastic, canonical, and mendicant rules." Kalamazoo, Mich. : Published for TEAMS by Medieval Institute Publications, 1997. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990078698350203941
Ordering women's lives : penitentials and nunnery rules in the early medieval West
Smith, Julie Ann · 2001 · eng
Smith, Julie Ann. "Ordering women's lives : penitentials and nunnery rules in the early medieval West." Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2001. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990087938990203941
The Pursuit of Salvation. Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism : With a Critical Edition and Translation of the Regula Cuiusdam Ad Uirgines
Diem, Albrecht, 1968- · 2021 · eng, lat
Diem, Albrecht, 1968-. "The Pursuit of Salvation. Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism : With a Critical Edition and Translation of the Regula Cuiusdam Ad Uirgines." Turnhout Brepols 2021. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158343796403941

Sources checked

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