Twelve Books in Defence of the Three Chapters of the Council of Chalcedon
Libri XII pro defensione trium capitulorum concilii Chalcedonensis
· Facundus of Hermiane
· c. 546-548
· treatise
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
Migne's volume 67 carries the work at column 527, in the elenchus line 'Facundus episcopus Hermianensis. Libri duodecim pro defensione trium capitulorum concilii Chalcedonensis' (https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecursu0067mign). The modern translations are French and Italian: 'Defense des trois chapitres (a Justinien)', Sources chretiennes 471, 478-479 and 499 (2002-2006), and 'Difesa dei tre capitoli' (Collana di testi patristici 193-194, 2007) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Facundus%20Hermiane&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The English volume on the controversy, Richard Price's 'The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 553' (Translated Texts for Historians 51, 2009), translates the acts, letters and edicts and the two Constituta of Vigilius, not Facundus's treatise (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Acts%20of%20the%20Council%20of%20Constantinople%20553%20Price&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English translation of the Defensio was located.
This is the fullest defence of the Three Chapters and the most detailed surviving account of how the African bishops understood Chalcedon, written while Facundus was in hiding from Justinian's condemnation. It is the indispensable counterweight to the imperial and papal documents that Price translates, and an English reader of the 553 council currently has only the prosecution's file.
"The Bible in Christian North Africa. The Bible in Christian North Africa : Part II: Consolidation of the Canon to the Arab Conquest (Ca. 393 to 650 CE)." Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99157148339703941
Haarer, F. K. (Fiona K.). "Justinian : empire and society in the sixth century." Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155913564103941
"The Bible in Christian North Africa : Part II." Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99157958544903941
Cite: Tergwame, “Twelve Books in Defence of the Three Chapters of the Council of Chalcedon”
(latin gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-facundus-defensio-trium-capitulorum