Editing Pope Gelasius I (section)

== Works ==
[[File:Couronnement d'un prince - Sacramentaire de Charles le Chauve Lat1141 f2v.jpg|thumb|300px|A circa 870 image featuring the coronation of [[Charles the Bald]], flanked by Gelasius I and [[Gregory the Great]]. Gelasius' writings gave him a high status with posterity.]] 
Gelasius was one of the most prolific authors of the early [[bishops of Rome]]. Over 100 Gelasian letters survive, although 49 of these are fragmentary, some as short as several lines.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gelasius I |title=The letters of Gelasius I (492-496): pastor and micro-manager of the Church of Rome |date=2014 |isbn=978-2-503-55299-6 |editor-last=Neil |editor-first=Bronwen |location=Turnhout, Belgium |publisher=Brepols |pages=8–9 |oclc=893407493 |editor-last2=Allen |editor-first2=Pauline}}</ref> 6 treatises are extant that bear the name of Gelasius. According to [[Cassiodorus]], the reputation of Gelasius attracted to his name other works not by him. Although his dogmatic letters connected to the Acacian Schism were widely circulated in late antiquity, and have been the focus of much scholarly interest, the majority of Gelasius' letters were in fact concerned with the administration of the church of [[Suburbicarian_diocese|suburbicarian Italy]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Cohen |first=Samuel |date=2022 |title=Gelasius and the Ostrogoths: jurisdiction and religious community in late fifth-century Italy |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/emed.12519 |journal=Early Medieval Europe |language=en |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=22–23 |doi=10.1111/emed.12519 |s2cid=247674196 |issn=0963-9462}}</ref>

===''Decretum Gelasianum''===
{{main|Decretum Gelasianum}}
The most famous of pseudo-Gelasian works is the list ''De libris recipiendis et non recipiendis'' ("On books to be received and not to be received"), also denominated the ''[[Decretum Gelasianum]]'', which is believed to be connected to the pressure for orthodoxy during his pontificate and intended to be read as a decretal by Gelasius on the canonical and apocryphal books, which internal evidence reveals to be of later date. Thus the determination of the [[Biblical_canon|canon of Sacred Scripture]] has traditionally been attributed to Gelasius.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tertullian : F.C.Burkitt, Review of The decretum Gelasianum, Journal of Theological Studies 14 (1913) pp. 469-471|url=https://www.tertullian.org/articles/burkitt_gelasianum.htm|access-date=2022-01-20|website=www.tertullian.org}}</ref>

===''Gelasian Sacramentary''===
{{Main|Gelasian Sacramentary}}
In the [[Latin Catholic]] tradition, the pseudo ''Gelasian Sacramentary'' is in fact a liturgical book that was derived from Roman sources and transcribed, with inclusion of native Gallican liturgical elements, near [[Paris]] in the middle of the 8th century. While including the texts of some prayers that Gelasius composed, he was not a principal author or compiler of the book. The manuscript (Vatican, Vatican Library, Reg. lat. 316 + Paris, National Library, ms. lat. 7193, fol. 41–56) is actually titled the ''Liber sacramentorum Romanae ecclesiae'' (''Book of Sacraments of the Roman Church'').<ref>Translation is based on Louise Ropes Loomis, ''The Book of the Popes (''Liber pontificalis'') I'', New York, New York, USA, Columbia University Press, 1916, pp. 110-4</ref>

The attribution to Gelasius is premised in part at least on the chronicle of the [[Supreme Pontiff]]s that is denominated the ''Liber Pontificalis'', which states of Gelasius that he "''fecit etiam et sacramentorum praefationes et orationes cauto sermone et epistulas fidei delimato sermone multas''" ("he also made prefaces to the sacraments and prayers in careful language and many epistles in polished language regarding the faith").<ref>Translation is based on Louise Ropes Loomis, ''The Book of the Popes (''Liber pontificalis'') I'', New York, New York, USA, Columbia University Press, 1916, pp. 110-4</ref> An old tradition linked the book to Gelasius, apparently based on the ascription of [[Walafrid Strabo]] to him of what evidently is this book.