Unwritten traditions named — general sense vs viva voce; not in Canonical books
What they label unwritten traditions are dogmas and religious institutes never lodged in the canonical books.
Even Pontificians grant that tradition as a word is broad: any teaching one person communicates to another, in writing or outside Scripture. Handing on equals teaching; tradition equals a teaching.
Church writers, however, usually narrow the term to teaching given by living voice rather than writing — and that is how the Pontifician schools use it.
They do not mean a doctrine that exists nowhere in writing, but one the first author never wrote — or, more carefully, one absent from the Canonical books of Prophets and Apostles.
Latin
XI. Atque hae sunt quas vocant traditiones non scriptas, quo nomine intelligunt dogmata & instituta pertinentia ad fidem atque religionem, quae Scripturis canonicis consignata non fuerunt. De quibus, ut quae sit eorum sententia, distinctius intelligatur, sciendum est, fatentibus ipsis Pontificiis, traditionis nomen ex se generale esse, & significare doctrinam omnem quae ab uno traditur & communicatur alteri, sive per scriptum, sive extra Scripturam. Et ita tradere est idem quod docere, & traditio idem quod documentum. Sed tamen usus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum traditionis vocem plerunque restringit ad doctrinam non scriptam, sed viva voce traditam: & ita sumunt hanc vocem Pontificiae Scholae. Neque tamen per doctrinam non scriptam, intelligunt eam quae nullibi scripta est, sed quae scripta non est a primo authore, seu potius, ut eorum quidam accuratius dicunt, quae scripta non invenitur in libris Canonicis Prophetarum & Apostolorum.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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