On Predestination

De praedestinatione · Ratramnus of Corbie · c. 849-850 · treatise

Latin · domain: latin-carolingian-exegesis · researched 2026-11-14

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo, queried 2026-11-14 for 'Ratramnus predestination', returns no English translation of the treatise; the records are a nineteenth-century Dutch dissertation, handbooks and readers. The Marquette volume 'Gottschalk and a Medieval Predestination Controversy' (2010), the obvious place to look, prints Rabanus Maurus' letters, Hincmar's letters, Amolo's On Grace and Foreknowledge and Florus' sermon, but its HOLLIS contents list contains no work by Ratramnus. Migne's text stands in PL 121. No English translation was located.

Ratramnus' answer to Charles the Bald on double predestination, written in the controversy provoked by Gottschalk of Orbais; it is the most philosophically exact Carolingian treatment of the question. The 2010 Marquette sourcebook translates everyone in the debate except Ratramnus, which leaves the argument one-sided in English.

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: Ratramnus of Corbie "On Predestination" — 1 record(s); match basis author_title.

Sources checked

• https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecursu121mign
• HOLLIS search — Gottschalk medieval predestination controversy texts translated
• HOLLIS search — Ratramnus predestination

Cite: Tergwame, “On Predestination” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-ratramnus-de-praedestinatione