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Four Books to Turbantius

Libri quattuor ad Turbantium · Julian of Eclanum · c. 418 · treatise

Latin · domain: latin-jerome-augustine · researched 2026-11-14

partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.

Why this is in the register

No translation of the work exists in any modern language except as reconstructed fragments in a study. HOLLIS on 'Julian Eclanum Turbantius' returns exactly one book: Albert Bruckner's 'Die vier Bucher Julians von Aeclanum an Turbantius; ein Beitrag zur Charakteristik Julians und Augustins' (Berlin, 1910), a German study that prints the surviving fragments, alongside the CCSL 88 edition of Julian's works (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Julian%20Eclanum%20Turbantius&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Julian's own text survives only in the extracts quoted by Augustine in Contra Iulianum, which is translated as 'Answer to Julian' in The Works of Saint Augustine I/24 (https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9942328853506421); no English collection of the fragments exists.

The four books to Turbantius are Julian's first full statement of the Pelagian case on the origin of the soul, free will and infant baptism, and the dossier that provoked Augustine's Contra Iulianum. Because only fragments survive, a translation would have to be a reconstruction — which is exactly why the register should record it: the Latin fragments have been edited, but nothing in English presents them, so the earliest stage of the controversy is invisible to English readers.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

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: Julian of Eclanum — 47 record(s); match basis author_only.

RecordCitation
Julian von Aeclanum - Ad florum liber primus : Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar
Julian, of Eclanum, Bishop, 380-approximately 455 · 2022 · ger, lat
Julian, of Eclanum, Bishop, 380-approximately 455. "Julian von Aeclanum - Ad florum liber primus : Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99156014477003941
Ancient Christian texts : commentaries on Job, Hosea, Joel, and Amos
Julian, of Eclanum, Bishop, 380-approximately 455 · 2021 · eng
Julian, of Eclanum, Bishop, 380-approximately 455. "Ancient Christian texts : commentaries on Job, Hosea, Joel, and Amos." Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, [2021]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155654271203941
Expositio libri Job : Tractatus prophetarum Osee Johel et Amos : accedunt operum deperditorum fragmenta post Albertum Bruckner denuo collecta aucta ordinata
Julian, of Eclanum, Bishop, 380-approximately 455 · 1977 · lat
Julian, of Eclanum, Bishop, 380-approximately 455. "Expositio libri Job : Tractatus prophetarum Osee Johel et Amos : accedunt operum deperditorum fragmenta post Albertum Bruckner denuo collecta aucta ordinata." Turnholti : Typographi Brepols, 1977. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990007877760203941
Iuliani Aeclanensis Expositio libri Iob ; Tractatus prophetarum Osee, Iohel et Amos : accedunt operum deperditorum fragmenta post Albertum Bruckner denuo collecta aucta ordinata
Julian, of Eclanum, Bishop, 380-approximately 455 · 1977 · lat, fre
Julian, of Eclanum, Bishop, 380-approximately 455. "Iuliani Aeclanensis Expositio libri Iob ; Tractatus prophetarum Osee, Iohel et Amos : accedunt operum deperditorum fragmenta post Albertum Bruckner denuo collecta aucta ordinata." Turnholti : Brepols, 1977. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/9900083447602…
Theodori Mopsuesteni Expositionis in Psalmos Iuliano Aeclanensi interprete in latinum versae quae supersunt
Theodore, Bishop of Mopsuestia, approximately 350-428 or 429 · 1977 · lat
Theodore, Bishop of Mopsuestia, approximately 350-428 or 429. "Theodori Mopsuesteni Expositionis in Psalmos Iuliano Aeclanensi interprete in latinum versae quae supersunt." Turnholti : Brepols, 1977. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990008344770203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Four Books to Turbantius” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-julian-ad-turbantium