Library searches for 'Decretum Gelasianum' and for 'de libris recipiendis' return only Ernst von Dobschütz's German critical edition and study of 1912 and Latin reprints in Migne and the council collections; no English translation appears (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Decretum%20Gelasianum&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,de%20libris%20recipiendis&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Migne prints the decree among Gelasius's works in Patrologia Latina 59, headed 'Decreta ... de recipiendis et non recipiendis libris' (https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecur59mign). The only English Gelasius volume in HOLLIS is Bronwen Neil's 'The letters of Gelasius I (492-496)' (Brepols, Adnotationes 1, 2014), which translates letters and arranges them by topic ('The preeminence of Rome', 'Decretals', 'Against pagan practices'); its table of contents has no entry for the decree (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Gelasius%20I%20pope%20letters%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No complete English translation of the decree was located; this records the state of those catalogues, not proof that none has ever been printed.
The decree is the Roman church's most influential early canon list, the document that grades scripture, councils and patristic works as received or apocryphal, and it is the standard citation for the status of texts such as the Acts of Paul or the writings of Tertullian. A reader without Latin meets it only in quotation and summary; the full list, with its categories and its attributions, is not available in English.
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| archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus, Series Latina, 1844-1864); archive.org scan |
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| Pope Gelasius I and the Lupercalia | Holleman, A. W. J. "Pope Gelasius I and the Lupercalia." Amsterdam : Adolf M. Hakkert, 1974. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990007554810203941 |
| Pope Gelasius I and the Lupercalia | Holleman, A. W. J. "Pope Gelasius I and the Lupercalia." Amsterdam, Hakkert, 1974. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99159232453803941 |
| Pope Gelasius I | Vásquez de Arce y Caballos, Gregorio 1638-1711, Colombian. "Pope Gelasius I." 1685. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/via/olvwork352908/catalog |
| Lettera sulle due nature | Gelasius I, Pope, -496. "Lettera sulle due nature." Bologna : EDB, c2011. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990131269520203941 |
| The syntax of the letters of Pope Gelasius I | Bagan, Philip Vincent, 1907-. "The syntax of the letters of Pope Gelasius I." Washington, D. C., The Catholic University of America Press, 1945. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990039498970203941 |