Alcuin - Selected Works

Selected Works

The following list is partially based on an overview by Robert Levine and Whitney Bolton

Poetry

• Carmina, ed. Ernst Dümmler. Poetae Latini Aevi Carolini. vol 1. Berlin, 1881.
  • Godman, Peter (tr.). Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. 118–49.
• Stella, Francesco (tr., comm.), La poesia carolingia, Firenze, Le Lettere 1995, pp. 94-96, 152-161, 266-267, 302-307, 364-371, 399-404, 455-457, 474-477, 503-507.
  • Isbell, Harold (tr.). The Last Poets of Imperial Rome. Baltimore: Penguin, 1971.
• Epitaph for Cone
• Poem on York, Versus de patribus, regibus et sanctis Eboracensis ecclesiae, ed. and tr. Peter Godman, De pontificibus et sanctis Ecclesiae Eboracensis, The Bishops, Kings, and Saints of York. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.
• De clade Lindisfarnensis monasterii, "On the destruction of the monastery of Lindisfarne"

Epistolae (Letters)

Of Alcuin's letters, just over 310 have survived.

• Dümmler, Ernst (ed.). 'Alcuini siue Albini epistolae' in MGH Epistolae IV.2 (Berlin 1895) 1–493.
• Jaffe, Philipp, Ernst Dümmler, W. Wattenbach (eds.). Monumenta Alcuiniana, Berlin, Weidmann, 1873, pp. 132–897.
• Chase, Colin (ed.). Two Alcuin Letter-books. Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1975.
• Allott, Stephen (tr.). Alcuin of York, c. AD 732 to 804. His life and letters. York, 1974.
• Sturgeon, Thomas G. (tr.). The Letters of Alcuin: Part One, the Aachen Period (762–796). Harvard University Ph.D. Thesis, 1953.
• Dorothy Whitelock (tr.), English Historical Documents.

Didactic works

• Ars grammatica
• De orthographia, ed. H. Keil, Grammatici Latini VII, 1880. 295–312.
• De dialectica
• Disputatio regalis et nobilissimi juvenis Pippini cum Albino scholastico "Dialogue of Pepin, the Most Noble and Royal Youth, with the Teacher Albinus", ed. L.W. Daly and W. Suchier, Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Epicteti Philosophi. Urbana, 1939. 134–46; ed. Wilhelm Wilmanns, "Disputatio regalis et nobilissimi juvenis Pippini cum Albino scholastico." Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 14 (1869): 530–55, 562.
• Disputatio de rhetorica et de virtutibus sapientissimi regis Carli et Albini magistri, ed. and tr. Wilbur Samuel Howell, The Rhetoric of Alcuin and Charlemagne. New York: Russell and Russell, 1965 (1941); ed. C. Halm, Rhetorici Latini Minores. 1863. 523–50.
• De virtutibus et vitiis, also De vitiis et virtutum (moral treatise dedicated to Count Wido of Brittany, 799 x 800), ed. J.P. Migne. PL 101. Paris, 1851. 613–639 (transcript available online). A new critical edition is being prepared for the Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Medievalis.
• De animae ratione (ad Eulaliam virginem) (written for Gundrada, Charlemagne's cousin)
• De Cursu et Saltu Lunae ac Bissexto, astronomical treatise.

Hagiography

• Vita II Vedastis episcopi Atrebatensis. Revision of the earlier Vita Vedastis by Jonas of Bobbio.
• Vita Richarii confessoris Centulensis. Revision of an earlier anonymous life.
• Vita Willibrordi archiepiscopi Traiectensis, ed. W. Levison, Passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merovingici. MGH Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum 7/2. Hanover, 1920. 81–141.