HOLLIS on 'Berengar Tours sacra coena' returns ten records, all Latin editions or works against Berengar: an 1815 Göttingen edition 'ex codice manuscripto Guelpherbytano', the 1834 Berlin edition whose title page says the later book was 'primum ediderunt A. F. et F. Th. Vischer', W. H. Beekenkamp's 1941 Nijhoff volume in the series Kerkhistorische studiën, R. B. C. Huygens's Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 84 (Latin and German), and the treatises of Guitmund of Aversa and Alger of Liège (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Berengar%20Tours%20sacra%20coena&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 10 records). A second query returns the same editions plus an English study, 'Dialectic and theology in the eleventh century' (1996) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Berengar%20Rescriptum%20contra%20Lanfrannum&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 6 records); no record in either query carries an '.English' uniform title or describes the volume as a translation. The Latin text is on Internet Archive in the Vischer edition (https://archive.org/details/berengariituron00lanfgoog). Lanfranc's side of the dispute is translated in Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation 10 (2009) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Lanfranc%20on%20the%20body%20and%20blood%20of%20the%20Lord&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 so English has the prosecution and not the defence.
Berengar's reply to Lanfranc is a first-rate theological work of the eleventh century that English has never translated, and it is one of the very few sustained arguments by a medieval author against a realist Eucharist. Because the work survives essentially through one Wolfenbüttel manuscript and Latin editions of 1815, 1834 and 1941, English readers know the affair entirely through Lanfranc's and Guitmund's quotations of their opponent - the controversy is readable only from the winning side.
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| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (1834 edition) |
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| A history of the doctrine of the holy eucharist | Stone, Darwell, 1859-1941. "A history of the doctrine of the holy eucharist." London, Longmans, Green, and co. 1909. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990024231360203941 |