No complete English translation of the 154-letter corpus exists. Ancient Christian Writers 33 (trans. Charles Christopher Mierow, 1963) prints only the first instalment: the HOLLIS contents note reads 'v.1. Letters 1-22' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,letters%20of%20St%20Jerome%20Mierow&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The Loeb Classical Library volume is a selection — 'Select letters of St. Jerome', trans. F. A. Wright, 1933, reissued 1934/2014 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Jerome%20select%20letters%20Loeb&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The Fathers of the Church volumes 147-148, 'Exegetical Epistles' (trans. Thomas P. Scheck, 2023 and 2024), are a new translation of about thirty-five exegetical letters only: the publisher's summary lists Epistles 18-21, 25-30, 34-37, 42, 53, 55-56, 59, 64-65, 72-74 and 78 for volume 1, and volume 2 adds 85, 106, 112, 119, 120, 121, 129, 130 and 140 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Exegetical%20epistles%20Jerome&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers volume for Jerome (series 2, vol. 6, 1893) runs a long selection under the heading 'The Letters of St. Jerome', not the whole corpus (https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf206.toc.html). That the corpus is 154 letters is visible in the Corpus Corporum CSEL units, which are Epistulae 1-70, 71-120 and 120-154 (https://mlat.uzh.ch/browser?path=cps_19.HierEuse.EpistCSEL). No complete English letters was found in HOLLIS, Ancient Christian Writers, Fathers of the Church or the Loeb list (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Jerome%20letters%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0
Jerome's letters are the richest single source for Latin Christian life c. 370-420 — ascetic programmes, the Origenist quarrel, the fall of Rome, the Vulgate project — and the most quoted of his works in translation anthologies. A reader who wants Letter 22 on virginity or the Paula obituary gets them, but the exegetical and polemical letters in the middle of the corpus are only now appearing, letter by letter, in FOTC 147-148; the rest has never been in English.
| Record | Citation |
|---|---|
| Herculean labours : Erasmus and the editing of St. Jerome's letters in the Renaissance | Pabel, Hilmar M., 1964-. "Herculean labours : Erasmus and the editing of St. Jerome's letters in the Renaissance." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990115876510203941 |
| Timoteo Maffei's attack on holy simplicity : educational thought in Gratian's Decretum and Jerome's Letters | Rutherford, David, 1952-. "Timoteo Maffei's attack on holy simplicity : educational thought in Gratian's Decretum and Jerome's Letters." Mainz : P. von Zabern, 199?. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990109506090203941 |
| Select Letters of Saint Jerome | Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420. "Select Letters of Saint Jerome." London : Heinemann ; New York : G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1933. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990043653290203941 |
| Roman nobilitas in Jerome's letters : Roman values and Christian asceticism for socialites | Westeinde, Jessica van 't. "Roman nobilitas in Jerome's letters : Roman values and Christian asceticism for socialites." Tubingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2021]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155779195903941 |
| Select letters of St. Jerome | Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420. "Select letters of St. Jerome." Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1933. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990014216680203941 |