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Agnelli Ravennatis: Liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Ravennatis. Edited and annotated by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis. [Corpus Christianorum: Continuatio Mediaevalis, 199.] (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 2006. Pp. 393. euro175,00.)
Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis has been working on a re-edition of Agnellus' ninth-century history of the bishops of Ravenna for more than fifteen years and has already published a translation of it (Agnellus of Ravenna, The book of pontiffs of the church of Ravenna [Washington, D.C., 2004]); in this new book she gives us the Latin text in the prestigious "Corpus Christianorum" series. The bulk of Agnellus has a fairly straightforward manuscript tradition, based on two manuscripts, one fifteenth century and one sixteenth; only two of the bishops' lives, Severus and Peter Chrysologus (fourthand...