Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Vol. 17

Excerpt from Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Vol. 17: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A. D. 325 We have already given an account of the Clementines in the Introductory Notice to the Recognitions. All that remains for us to do here, is to notice the principal editions of the Homilies. The first edition was published by Cotelerius in his collection of the Apostolic Fathers from a manuscript in the Boyal Library at Paris, the only manuscript of the work then known to exist. He derived assistance from an epitome of the work which he found in the same library. The text of Cotelerius was revised by Clericus in his edition of Cotelerius, but more carefully by Schwegler, Stuttgart 1847. The Paris Ms. breaks off in the middle of the fourteenth chapter of the nineteenth book. In 1853 (Gżttingen) Dressel published a new recension of the Homilies having found a complete manuscript of the twenty Homilies in the Ottobonian Library in Some. In 1859 (Leipzig) he published an edition of two Epitomes of the Homilies, - the one previously edited by Turnebus and Cotelerius being given more fully, and the other appearing for the first time. To these Epitomes were appended notes by Frederic Wieseler on the Homilies. The last edition of the Clementines is by Paul de Lagarde (Leipzig, 1865), which has no new sources, is pretentious, but far from accurate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.