Editing Liber Pontificalis (section)

==Editions==
[[Image:Theodor Mommsen by Ludwig Knaus (1881).jpg|thumb|right|[[Theodor Mommsen]]'s 1898 edition of the ''Liber Pontificalis'' terminates in 715.]]
The ''Liber Pontificalis'' was [[editio princeps|first edited]] by [[Joannes Busaeus]] under the title ''Anastasii bibliothecarii Vitæ seu Gesta Romanorum Pontificum'' (Mainz, 1602). A new edition, including the ''[[Historia Ecclesiastica (disambiguation)|Historia ecclesiastica]]'' of Anastasius, was edited by Fabrotti (Paris, 1647). Another edition, editing the older ''Liber Pontificalis'' up to [[Pope Adrian II]] and adding [[Pope Stephen VI]], was compiled by [[Francesco Bianchini|Fr. Bianchini]] (4 vols., Rome, 1718–35; a projected fifth volume did not appear).<ref name="catholic"/> Muratori reprinted Bianchini's edition, adding the remaining popes through [[Pope John XXII|John XXII]] (Scriptores rerum Italicarum, III). Migne also republished Bianchini's edition, adding several appendixes (P. L., cxxvii–cxxviii).<ref name="catholic"/>

Modern editions include those of [[Louis Duchesne]] (''Liber Pontificalis. Texte, introduction et commentaire'', 2 vols., Paris, 1886–92) and [[Theodor Mommsen]] (''Gestorum Pontificum Romanorum pars I: Liber Pontificalis'', [[Mon. Germ. hist.]], Berlin, 1898). Duchesne incorporates the ''[[Annales Romani]]'' (1044–1187) into his edition of the ''Liber Pontificalis'', which otherwise relies on the two earliest known recensions of the work (530 and 687).<ref name="tuker"/> Mommsen's edition is incomplete, extending only until 715.<ref name="catholic"/> Translations and further commentaries appeared throughout the 20th century.