Pontificalis

Editions Theodor Mommsen 's 1898 edition of the Liber Pontificalis terminates in 715. The Liber Pontificalis was first edited by J. Busæus under the title Anastasii bibliothecarii Vitæ seu Gesta.

The original statement of the Liber Pontificalis, in this hypothesis, had nothing to do with Britain; the compiler of the Liber Pontificalis changed Britio main to Brittanio main, and in this way made a British king of the Syrian Lucius.

According to Liber Pontificalis, Linus issued a decree that women should cover their heads in church, created the first fifteen bishops, and that he died a martyr and was buried on the Vatican Hill next to Peter.

According to the Liber Pontificalis (ed.

According to the Liber Pontificalis he was described as venerable, energetic and honourable.

According to the Liber Pontificalis, Linus was an Italian born in Volterra in the Tuscany region.

According to the life in the "Liber Pontificalis" (ed.

According to the notice in the Liber Pontificalis, Felix erected a basilica on the Via Aurelia ; the same source also adds that he was buried there.

Acta Sanct., Jan., II, 10-14) and is followed by the Liber Pontificalis, gives a different account of the end of Marcellus.

Although credited with ordering the publication of the Liber Pontificalis, "Lives of the Saints, For Every Day of the Year," p. 263 compilation of that document was not started before the beginning of the 6th century.

Clovis I is traditionally said to have died on 28 November 511; however, the Liber Pontificalis suggests that he was still alive in 513, so the date of his death is not known for certain.

Content The Liber Pontificalis originally only contained the names of the bishops of Rome and the durations of their pontificates.

Extension It was only in the 12th century that the Liber Pontificalis was systematically continued, although papal biographies exist in the interim period in other sources.

Famine followed the devastating Lombards, and from the few words the Liber Pontificalis has about Benedict, we gather that he died in the midst of his efforts to cope with these difficulties.

Felix probably issued no such decree, but the compiler of the Liber Pontificalis attributed it to him because he made no departure from the custom in force in his time.

For recent events the Chronicle, like his Ecclesiastical History, relied upon Gildas, upon a version of the Liber pontificalis current at least to the papacy of Pope Sergius I (687–701), and other sources.

From 817 to 891. *Louise Ropes Loomis, The Book of Popes (Liber Pontificalis).

From the Liber Pontificalis : "They (The Franks) in like manner wasted Italy.

Harnack suggests that in the document which the compiler of the Liber Pontificalis drew his information, the name found was not Britanio main, but Britio main.

He returned to Rome in 597. He was probably consecrated pope on 13 September 604. He incurred unpopularity by his unseasonable economies, although the Liber Pontificalis states that he distributed grain during a famine at Rome under his pontificate.