The standard critical edition of Anselmâs works (with the exception of the letter collections) is the Opera omnia prepared by Fr. F. S. Schmitt to which all authors in this volume refer, in one of two bibliographic forms:
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S. Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi opera omnia, ad fidem codicum recensuit, 6 vols. (the first printed at Seckau, 1938, the second at Rome in 1940, all reset for the Nelson edition) (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1946â61).
Reprinted with new editorial material as:
S. Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi opera omnia, ad fidem codicum recensuit, 2 vols. (Stuttgart/Bad-Cannstatt: F. Frommann, 1968â84)
Anselmâs letters are the subject of a new edition and translation: Letters of Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, vol. 1, The Bec Letters, ed. and trans. Samu Niskanen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). Niskanenâs edition replaces that of Schmitt, and re-numbers the letter collection, but for those letters not covered in volume 1, the relevant volume of Schmitt is used and indicated in the essays that follow. Most authors use Niskanenâs translation, or Anselm of Canterbury, The Letters of Anselm of Canterbury, trans. W. Fröhlich, 3 vols. (Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1990â94) for the letters still available only in the Schmitt edition. The English translation used is indicated by âNiskanenâ or âFröhlichâ or identified as the authorâs own.
Anselmâs works have a number of translations, the particular versions used in each essay are indicated by the authors.
Other abbreviations across the volume are:
| HN | Eadmer, Historia Novorum, ed. M. Rule, Rolls Series (1884) |
| GPA | William of Malmesbury, Gesta Pontificum Anglorum, 2 vols. ed. and trans. Rodney M. Thomson and Michael Winterbottom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007) |
| GRA | Gesta regum Anglorum, ed. and trans. R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson, and M. Winterbottom, 2 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) |
| PL | Patrologiae cursus completus, series Latina, ed. J.-P. Migne, 221 vols. (Paris 1844â65) |
| VA | Eadmer, Vita Sancti Anselmi, ed. Richard W. Southern, The Life of St Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962) |
| Southern, Portrait | Richard W. Southern, Anselm: A Portrait in a Landscape (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) |