Libellus pro synodo
· Ennodius of Pavia (Magnus Felix Ennodius)
· c. 502-513 (written while still a deacon)
· canon law
Latin · domain: latin-fifth-sixth-century · 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 Migne prolegomena to Ennodius state that 'anno 513 egregium apologeticum pro synodo Palmari adhuc diaconus conscripserit' - that he wrote the great defence of the synod 'Palmaris' while still a deacon - and the piece is printed among the ten opuscula of Patrologia Latina 63 (https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecur63mign). Library searches under Ennodius return no translation of it: the English items are the 2022 poems, the 1942 Life of Epiphanius and the 2026 panegyric volume, and the German items are studies and the 2016 parallel edition of the two saints' lives (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Ennodius&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The 1906 French 'Oeuvres completes' is the only rendering of the opuscula in a modern language that was located. No English translation was located.
The libellus is the contemporary defence of the Roman synod held under Pope Symmachus (the 'synodus Palmaris'), and it is the earliest systematic Latin argument for the principle that the pope may be judged by no one. Ecclesiological claims that later canonists took for granted are argued here for the first time, and the text is not available in English.
Ennodius, Magnus Felix, Saint, 474-521 · 1942 · eng
Ennodius, Magnus Felix, Saint, 474-521. "The life of Saint Epiphanius by Ennodius : a translation with an introduction and commentary." Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, 1942. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990041048660203941
Urlacher-Becht, Céline. "Ennode de Pavie, chantre officiel de l'Église de Milan." Paris : Institut d'études augustiniennes, 2014. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990143673930203941
Ennodius, Magnus Felix, Saint, 474-521 · 2016 · lat, ger
Ennodius, Magnus Felix, Saint, 474-521. "Die beiden Heiligenviten : Vita beatissimi viri Epifani episcopi Ticinensis ecclesiae : Vita beati Antoni : lateinisch und deutsch." Darmstadt : WBG, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, [2016]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990146085900203941
Ennodius, Magnus Felix, Saint, 474-521 · 1988 · ita, lat
Ennodius, Magnus Felix, Saint, 474-521. "Vita del beatissimo Epifanio vescovo della chiesa pavese." Como : Edizioni New Press, 1988. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990016205480203941
Cite: Tergwame, “Little Book in Defence of the Synod ('Palmaris')”
(latin gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-ennodius-libellus-pro-synodo