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Memorandum concerning Caelestius

Commonitorium de Coelestio (Commonitorium super nomine Caelestii) · Marius Mercator · c. 430 · documentary

Latin · domain: latin-jerome-augustine · 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

No English translation of any work of Marius Mercator was located. HOLLIS on 'Marius Mercator' returns the new Latin documentary edition of the Collectio Palatina (Brepols, 2025) and one translation, German: Claudia Konoppa, 'Die Werke des Marius Mercator: Ubersetzung und Kommentierung seiner Schriften' (Frankfurt: Lang, 2005) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Marius%20Mercator&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A second search for an English translation returns nothing, and Princeton likewise returns no English translation (https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog.json?q=Marius+Mercator&search_field=all_fields). The Latin of the Commonitorium is short enough to be read in Migne or Corpus Corporum, but no English version exists.

Marius Mercator is the documentary backbone of the Pelagian and Nestorian controversies: he collected, translated and annotated the dossier that Latin readers used to follow Eastern debates. His memorandum on Caelestius is where the Latin West first meets the Pelagian case in documentary form; without an English version those documents are quoted at second hand in every history of the controversy.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Die Werke des Marius Mercator: Ubersetzung und Kommentierung seiner Schriften · Claudia Konoppa · 2005
language: de · German translation and commentary on his works; not English

Electronic text

Source and licence
corpus-corporum · TEI · public domain (Migne, Patrologia Latina, Parisiis 1844-1864)
cps_2.MarMer.CoDeCo

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: Marius Mercator — 49 record(s); match basis author_only.

RecordCitation
Die Werke des Marius Mercator : Übersetzung und Kommentierung seiner Schriften
Konoppa, Claudia, 1975- · 2005 · ger
Konoppa, Claudia, 1975-. "Die Werke des Marius Mercator : Übersetzung und Kommentierung seiner Schriften." Frankfurt am Main : Lang, c2005. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990095353610203941
Collectio quae dicitur Palatina primaria > Doc. 30-34: Nestorii contra haeresim Pelagii seu Caelestii sermones > Doc. 30: Praefatio
Marius Mercator c. 390 - post 451 author · 2025 · lat
Marius Mercator c. 390 - post 451 author. "Collectio quae dicitur Palatina primaria > Doc. 30-34: Nestorii contra haeresim Pelagii seu Caelestii sermones > Doc. 30: Praefatio." Turnhout Brepols Publishers NV 2025. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158909445203941
Collectio quae dicitur Palatina primaria > Doc. 36: Commonitorium super nomine Caelestii (Graeco sermone a Mercatore datum et ap ipso translatum)
Marius Mercator c. 390 - post 451 author · 2025 · lat
Marius Mercator c. 390 - post 451 author. "Collectio quae dicitur Palatina primaria > Doc. 36: Commonitorium super nomine Caelestii (Graeco sermone a Mercatore datum et ap ipso translatum)." Turnhout Brepols Publishers NV 2025. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158909317103941
Collectio quae dicitur Palatina primaria > Doc. 3-14: Commonitorium aduersum haeresim Pelagii
Marius Mercator c. 390 - post 451 author · 2025 · lat
Marius Mercator c. 390 - post 451 author. "Collectio quae dicitur Palatina primaria > Doc. 3-14: Commonitorium aduersum haeresim Pelagii." Turnhout Brepols Publishers NV 2025. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158909022703941
Collectio quae dicitur Palatina primaria > Doc. 15-18: Textus ad symbolum Pseudo-Theodori Mopsuesteni pertinentes > Doc. 18: Alia epistula
Marius Mercator c. 390 - post 451 author · 2025 · lat
Marius Mercator c. 390 - post 451 author. "Collectio quae dicitur Palatina primaria > Doc. 15-18: Textus ad symbolum Pseudo-Theodori Mopsuesteni pertinentes > Doc. 18: Alia epistula." Turnhout Brepols Publishers NV 2025. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158908552903941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Memorandum concerning Caelestius” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-marius-mercator-commonitorium