Three Books to Thrasamund, King of the Vandals

Libri tres ad Trasimundum · Fulgentius of Ruspe · early 6th century (before 533) · treatise

Latin · domain: latin-fifth-sixth-century · researched 2026-11-14

Why this is in the register

The work follows the three books to Monimus in Migne's Fulgentius corpus, at Patrologia Latina 65: the volume's elenchus reads 'Libri tres ad Trasimundum 223' beside 'Libri tres ad Monimum 131' (https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecur65mign). The English Fulgentius is Fathers of the Church 95, 'Selected Works' (Robert B. Eno, 1997), whose contents are the Life of Fulgentius, To Peter on the faith, On the forgiveness of sins, To Monimus and the letters (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Fulgentius%20selected%20works%20Fathers%20of%20the%20Church&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and Fathers of the Church 126, the correspondence on Christology and grace with the Scythian monks (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Fulgentius%20of%20Ruspe%20correspondence%20Christology%20grace&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A library search for the treatise itself returns no records at all (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Fulgentius%20Trasimundum&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and the critical edition (Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina 91-91A, 1968) is recorded with French alongside the Latin text. No English translation was located.

The three books to Thrasamund are among the most substantial Latin answers to Arianism written after Augustine, composed for the Vandal king whose persecution sent Fulgentius into exile, and they are the main witness to how the homoousion was argued in a court where the king's own creed was Arian. English readers have Fulgentius only in the doctrinal selections, which pass over this work.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

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: Fulgentius of Ruspe Three Books to Thrasamund King of the Vandals — 1 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Sources checked

• https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecur65mign
• HOLLIS search — Fulgentius Trasimundum
• HOLLIS search — Fulgentius of Ruspe correspondence Christology grace
• HOLLIS search — Fulgentius selected works Fathers of the Church

Cite: Tergwame, “Three Books to Thrasamund, King of the Vandals” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-fulgentius-ad-trasimundum