/  5
 
History
 
and
 
Literature
 
of 
 
Patrology.
 
1.
 
ST.
 
JEROME.
We
 
owe
 
to
 
St.
 
Jerome
 
the
 
idea
 
of 
 
a
 
Patrology
 
or
 
history
 
of 
 
Christian
 
theological
 
literature.
 
His
 
work
 
on
 
the
 
Christian
 
writers
 
was
 
composed
 
at
 
Bethlehem
 
in
 
392
 
at
 
the
 
suggestion
 
of 
 
the
 
pretorian
 
prefect
 
Dexter
1
.
 
It
 
is
 
modelled
 
on
 
the
 
homonymous
 
work
 
of 
 
Suetonius
 
(ca.
 
75
160),
 
and
 
professes
 
to
 
be
 
a
 
brief 
 
account
 
of 
 
all
 
those
 
«ecclesiastical
 
writers»
 
(«ecclesiae
 
scriptores»)
 
who
 
have
 
written
 
on
 
the
 
Sacred
 
Scriptures
 
(«de
 
scripturis
 
sanctis
 
aliquid
 
memoriae
 
prodiderunt»)
 
from
 
the
 
Crucifixion
 
to
 
the
 
fourteenth
 
year
 
of 
 
the
 
reign
 
of 
 
Theodosius
 
(392).
 
The
 
first
 
chapters
 
are
 
devoted
 
to
 
the
 
books
 
of 
 
the
 
New
 
Testament;
 
later
 
on,
 
even
 
heretical
 
writers
 
are
 
added
 
(Bardesanes
 
c.
 
33,
 
Novatian
 
c.
 
70,
 
and
 
others).
 
At
 
the
 
end
 
(c.
 
135)
 
he
 
gives
 
an
 
account
 
of 
 
his
 
own
 
writings
 
as
 
far
 
as
 
the
 
year
 
392.
 
The
 
material
 
of 
 
the
 
first
 
chapters
 
is
 
taken
 
from
 
the
 
New
 
Testament;
 
the
 
following
 
sections,
 
on
 
the
 
Greek
 
writers
 
of 
 
the
 
first
 
three
 
centuries,
 
are
 
hastily
 
made
 
and
 
inaccurate
 
excerpts
 
from
 
the
 
Church
 
History
 
of 
 
Eusebius
 
of 
 
Cæsarea.
 
The
 
chapters
 
on
 
the
 
Latin
 
writers
 
and
 
on
 
later
 
Greek
 
writers
 
represent
 
the
 
personal
 
knowledge
 
and
 
research
 
of 
 
St.
 
Jerome,
 
and
 
although
 
they
 
do
 
not
 
entirely
 
satisfy
 
our
 
 just
 
expectations,
 
they
 
are
 
nevertheless
 
an
 
historical
 
authority
 
of 
 
the
 
first
 
rank.
 
Erasmus,
 
who
 
first
 
edited
 
(1516)
 
the
 
«De
 
viris
 
illustribus»,
 
published
 
also
 
a
 
Greek
 
translation
 
of 
 
the
 
work
 
(Migne
 
1.
 
c.)
 
which
 
he
 
attributed
 
to
 
Sophronius,
 
a
 
contemporary
 
of 
 
St.
 
Jerome.
 
It
 
was
 
not,
 
however,
 
executed
 
before
 
the
 
seventh
 
century.
 
In
 
the
 
very
 
numerous
 
manuscript
 
of 
 
this
 
work
 
of 
 
St.
 
Jerome
 
the
 
continuation
 
by
 
Gennadius
 
(n.
 
2)
 
is
 
usually
 
found.
 
It
 
is
 
also
 
printed
 
in
 
the
 
latest
 
editions,
 
by
 
W.
 
Herding,
 
Leipzig,
 
1879;
 
C.
 
A.
 
Bernoulli,
 
Sammlung
 
ausgewählter
 
kirchen
und
 
dogmengeschichtlicher
 
Quellenschriften
 
xi.,
 
Freiburg
 
i.
 
Br.
 
(1895),
 
and
 
E.
 
C.
 
Richardson,
 
Texte
 
und
 
Untersuchungen
 
zur
 
Geschichte
 
der
 
altchristlichen
 
Literatur,
 
Leipzig,
 
1896,
 
xiv.
 
I.
 
These
 
editions
 
have
 
not
 
rendered
 
further
 
improvement
 
impossible.
 
O.
 
v.
 
Gebhardt
 
has
 
given
 
us
 
an
 
excellent
 
edition
 
of 
 
the
 
Greek
 
translation,
 
Leipzig,
 
1896
 
(Texte
 
und
 
Untersuchungen
 
1.
 
c.).
 
Cf.
 
St.
 
v.
 
Sychowski,
 
Hieronymus
 
als
 
Literarhistoriker,
 
Münster,
 
1894
 
(Kjrchengeschichtliche
 
Studien,
 
ii.
 
2);
 
C.
 
A.
 
Bernoulli,
 
Der
 
Schriftstellerkatalog
 
des
 
Hieronymus,
 
Freiburg
 
i.
 
Br.,
 
1895;
 
G.
 
Wentzel,
 
Die
 
griechische
 
Übersetzung
 
der
 
Viri
 
inlustres
 
des
 
Hieronymus,
 
Leipzig,
 
1895
 
(Texte
 
und
 
Untersuchungen,
 
xiii.
 
3).
 
2.
 
CONTINUATORS
 
OF
 
ST.
 
JEROME.
For
 
more
 
than
 
a
 
thousand
 
years,
 
this
 
little
 
book
 
of 
 
the
 
Hermit
 
of 
 
Bethlehem
 
served
 
as
 
the
 
basis
 
of 
 
all
 
later
 
efforts
 
to
 
produce
 
a
 
history
 
of 
 
theological
 
literature.
 
All
 
later
 
compilers
 
linked
 
their
 
work
 
to
 
his,
 
and
 
even
 
when
 
there
 
was
 
added
 
a
 
name
 
forgotten
 
by
 
him,
 
or
 
by
 
one
 
of 
 
his
 
continuators,
 
the
 
form
 
and
 
divisions
 
of 
 
the
 
work
 
remained
 
1
 
De
 
viris
 
illustr.:
 
Migne,
 
PL.,
 
xxiii.
 
601
720.
 
 
Otto
 
Bardenhewer.
 
History
 
and
 
Literature
 
of 
 
Patrology.
 
http://plgo.info
 
2
unchanged.
 
Between
 
the
 
years
 
467
480
 
(apparently),
 
Gennadius,
 
a
 
priest
 
of 
 
Marseilles,
 
brought
 
out
 
a
 
very
 
useful
 
continuation
 
and
 
completion
 
of 
 
the
 
«De
 
viris»
2
.
 
He
 
was
 
a
 
Semi
Pelagian,
 
a
 
fact
 
that
 
is
 
responsible
 
for
 
occasional
 
deviations
 
from
 
his
 
usual
 
impartial
 
or
 
objective
 
attitude.
 
Otherwise,
 
Gennadius
 
was
 
an
 
historian
 
of 
 
extensive
 
knowledge,
 
accurate
 
 judgment
 
and
 
honourable
 
purpose.
 
Isidore,
 
archbishop
 
of 
 
Seville
 
(
Ŧ
636),
 
added
 
considerably
 
to
 
the
 
labours
 
of 
 
Gennadius
3
,
 
and
 
his
 
disciple
 
Ildephonsus
 
of 
 
Toledo
 
(
Ŧ
667)
 
contributed
 
a
 
short
 
appendix
 
on
 
some
 
Spanish
 
theologians
4
.
 
Centuries
 
were
 
now
 
to
 
pass
 
away
 
before
 
the
 
Benedictine
 
chronicler,
 
Sigebert
 
of 
 
Gembloux
 
in
 
Belgium
 
(
Ŧ
1112),
 
took
 
up
 
the
 
task
 
once
 
more,
 
and
 
carried
 
the
 
history
 
of 
 
ecclesiastical
 
literature
 
down
 
to
 
his
 
own
 
time.
 
In
 
his
 
book
 
«De
 
viris
 
illustribus»
5
 
he
 
treats
 
first,
 
«imitatus
 
Hieronymum
 
et
 
Gennadium»,
 
as
 
he
 
himself 
 
says
 
(c.
 
171),
 
of 
 
the
 
ancient
 
ecclesiastical
 
writers;
 
and
 
next
 
gives
 
biographical
 
and
 
bibliographical
 
notes
 
on
 
early
 
mediæval
 
Latin
 
theologians,
 
usually
 
slight
 
and
 
meagre
 
in
 
contents,
 
and
 
not
 
unfrequently
 
rather
 
superficial.
 
Somewhat
 
similar
 
compendia
 
were
 
composed
 
by
 
the
 
priest
 
Honorius
 
of 
 
Augustodunum
 
(Autun?)
 
between
 
1122
 
and
 
1125
6
,
 
by
 
the
 
«Anonymus
 
Mellicensis»,
 
so
 
called
 
from
 
the
 
Benedictine
 
abbey
 
of 
 
Melk
 
in
 
Lower
 
Austria,
 
where
 
the
 
first
 
manuscript
 
of 
 
his
 
work
 
was
 
found,
 
though
 
the
 
work
 
itself 
 
was
 
probably
 
composedwin
 
the
 
abbey
 
of 
 
Prüfening
 
near
 
Ratisbon
 
in
 
1135
7
,
 
and
 
by
 
the
 
author
 
of 
 
a
 
similarly
 
entitled
 
work
 
wrongly
 
ascribed
 
to
 
the
 
scholastic
 
theologian
 
Henry
 
of 
 
Ghent
 
(
Ŧ
1293).
 
These
 
compilations
 
were
 
all
 
surpassed,
 
in
 
1494,
 
as
 
regards
 
the
 
number
 
of 
 
authors
 
and
 
the
 
abundance
 
of 
 
information,
 
by
 
the
 
«De
 
scriptoribus
 
ecclesiasticis»
 
of 
 
the
 
celebrated
 
abbot
 
Johannes
 
Trithemius
 
(
Ŧ
1516).
 
It
 
contains
 
notices
 
of 
 
963
 
writers,
 
some
 
of 
 
whom,
 
however,
 
were
 
not
 
theologians.
 
Its
 
chief 
 
merit
 
lies
 
in
 
the
 
information
 
given
 
concerning
 
writers
 
of 
 
the
 
later
 
period
 
of 
 
Christian
 
antiquity.
 
For
 
Trithemius,
 
as
 
for
 
his
 
predecessors,
 
St.
 
Jerome
 
and
 
Gennadius
 
are
 
the
 
principal
 
sources
 
of 
 
knowledge
 
concerning
 
the
 
literary
 
labours
 
of 
 
the
 
Fathers.
 
These
 
literary
historical
 
compilations
 
are
 
to
 
be
 
found
 
together
 
with
 
the
 
work
 
of 
 
St.
 
Jerome
 
(Latin
 
and
 
Greek)
 
in
 
J.
 
A.
 
Fabricius,
 
Bibliotheca
 
ecclesiastica,
 
Hamburg,
 
1718.
 
For
 
the
 
later
 
editions
 
of 
 
Gennadius
 
by
 
Herding,
 
Bernoulli,
 
Richardson
 
see
 
p.
 
7;
 
cf.
 
also
 
Jungmann,
 
Quaestiones
 
Gennadianae
 
(Programme),
 
Lipsiae,
 
1881;
 
Br.
 
Czapla,
 
Gennadius
 
als
 
Literarhistoriker,
 
Münster,
 
1898
 
(Kirchengeschichtliche
 
Studien,
 
iv.
 
I);
 
Fr.
 
Diekamp,
 
Wann
 
hat
 
Gennadius
 
seinen
 
Schriftstellerkatalog
 
verfaßt?
 
Römische
 
Quartalschrift
 
für
 
christliche
 
Altertumskunde
 
und
 
für
 
Kirchengeschichte,
 
1898,
 
xii.
 
411
420.
 
For
 
the
 
two
 
Spanish
 
historians
 
of 
 
Christian
 
2
 
Migne,
 
PL.,
 
lviii.
 
1059
1120.
 
3
 
Ib.,
 
lxxxiii.
 
1081
1106.
 
4
 
Ib.,
 
xcvi.
 
195
206.
 
5
 
Ib.,
 
clx.
 
547
588.
 
6
 
De
 
luminaribus
 
ecclesiae:
 
Migne,
 
PL.,
 
clxxii.
 
197
234.
 
7
 
De
 
scriptoribus
 
ecclesiasticis:
 
ib.,
 
ccxiii.
 
961
984.
 
 
Otto
 
Bardenhewer.
 
History
 
and
 
Literature
 
of 
 
Patrology.
 
http://plgo.info
 
3
literature
 
cf.
 
G.
 
v.
 
Dzialowski,
 
Isidor
 
und
 
Ildefons
 
als
 
Literarhistoriker,
 
Münster
 
(Kirchengeschichtliche
 
Studien,
 
iv.
 
2).
 
For
 
Sigebert
 
of 
 
Gembloux
 
cf.
 
Wattenbach,
 
Deutschlands
 
Geschichtsquellen
 
im
 
Mittelalter,
 
6.
 
ed.,
 
Berlin,
 
1893
1894,
 
ii.
 
155
162,
 
and
 
for
 
his
 
literary
historical
 
work
 
S.
 
Hirsch,
 
De
 
vita
 
et
 
scriptis
 
Sigeberti
 
monachi
 
Gemblacensis,
 
Berolini,
 
1841,
 
330
337.
 
There
 
is
 
an
 
article
 
by
 
Stanonik
 
on
 
Honorius
 
of 
 
Augustodunum
 
in
 
the
 
Kirchenlexikon
 
of 
 
Wetzer
 
und
 
Welte,
 
2.
 
ed.,
 
vi.
 
268
274.
 
A
 
good
 
edition
 
of 
 
the
 
«Anonymus
 
Mellicensis»
 
was
 
published
 
by
 
E.
 
Ettlinger,
 
Karlsruhe,
 
1896.
 
For
 
the
 
work
 
«De
 
viris
 
illustribus»
 
current
 
under
 
the
 
name
 
of 
 
Henry
 
of 
 
Ghent
 
see
 
B.
 
Hauréau
 
in
 
Mémoires
 
de
 
l'institut
 
national
 
de
 
France,
 
Acad.
 
des
 
inscriptions
 
et
 
belles
lettres,
 
Paris,
 
1883,
 
xxx.
 
2,
 
349
357.
 
The
 
work
 
of 
 
Trithemius
 
is
 
discussed
 
by
 
J.
 
Silbernagl,
 
Johannes
 
Trithemius,
 
2.
 
ed.,
 
Regensburg,
 
1885,
 
pp.
 
59
65.
 
3.
 
THE
 
XVI.,
 
XVII.,
 
AND
 
XVIII.
 
CENTURIES.
 
Since
 
the
 
fifteenth
 
century
 
the
 
study
 
of 
 
ecclesiastical
 
literature
 
has
 
made
 
unexpected
 
progress.
 
The
 
humanists
 
brought
 
to
 
light
 
a
 
multitude
 
of 
 
unknown
 
works
 
of 
 
Latin,
 
and
 
especially
 
of 
 
Greek
 
ecclesiastical
 
writers.
 
The
 
contention
 
of 
 
the
 
reformers
 
that
 
primitive
 
Christianity
 
had
 
undergone
 
a
 
profound
 
corruption,
 
furthered
 
still
 
more
 
the
 
already
 
awakened
 
interest
 
in
 
the
 
ancient
 
literature
 
of 
 
the
 
Church.
 
In
 
the
 
seventeenth
 
and
 
eighteenth
 
centuries,
 
the
 
Benedictine
 
scholars
 
of 
 
the
 
French
 
Congregation
 
of 
 
St.
 
Maur
 
gave
 
a
 
powerful
 
and
 
lasting
 
impulse
 
to
 
the
 
movement
 
by
 
the
 
excellent,
 
and
 
in
 
part
 
classical,
 
editions
 
of 
 
texts,
 
in
 
which
 
they
 
revealed
 
to
 
an
 
astonished
 
world
 
historical
 
sources
 
of 
 
almost
 
infinite
 
richness
 
and
 
variety.
 
New
 
provinces
 
and
 
new
 
purposes
 
were
 
thereby
 
opened
 
to
 
Patrology.
 
The
 
Maurists
 
made
 
known
 
at
 
the
 
same
 
time
 
the
 
laws
 
for
 
the
 
historical
 
study
 
of 
 
the
 
original
 
sources;
 
in
 
nearly
 
every
 
department
 
of 
 
ancient
 
ecclesiastical
 
literature,
 
it
 
became
 
possible
 
for
 
scholars
 
to
 
strip
 
the
 
historical
 
truth
 
of 
 
the
 
veil
 
of 
 
legend
 
that
 
had
 
hung
 
over
 
it.
 
It
 
still
 
remained
 
customary
 
for
 
literary
 
historians,
 
to
 
deal
 
with
 
the
 
ancient
 
ecclesiastical
 
literature
 
as
 
a
 
whole.
 
The
 
most
 
distinguished
 
Catholic
 
names
 
in
 
this
 
period
 
of 
 
patrological
 
scholarship
 
are
 
those
 
of 
 
Bellarmine
 
(
Ŧ
1621),
 
Dupin
 
(
Ŧ
1719),
 
Le
 
Nourry
 
(
Ŧ
1724),
 
Ceillier
 
(
Ŧ
1761
 
),
 
Schram
 
(
Ŧ
1797),
 
Lumper
 
(
Ŧ
1800).
 
Among
 
the
 
Protestant
 
patrologists
 
are
 
reckoned
 
the
 
Reformed
 
theologians
 
Cave
 
(
Ŧ
1713),
 
and
 
Oudin
 
(
Ŧ
1717),
 
a
 
Premonstratensian
 
monk
 
who
 
became
 
a
 
Protestant
 
in
 
1690.
 
The
 
Lutheran
 
writers,
 
Gerhard
 
(
Ŧ
1637),
 
Hülsemann
 
(
Ŧ
1661),
 
Olearius
 
(
Ŧ
1711),
 
and
 
others
 
introduced
 
and
 
spread
 
the
 
use
 
of 
 
the
 
term
 
«Patrology»,
 
meaning
 
thereby
 
a
 
comprehensive
 
view
 
of 
 
all
 
Christian
 
theological
 
literature
 
from
 
the
 
earliest
 
period
 
to
 
mediæval,
 
and
 
even
 
to
 
modern
 
times.
 
Robertus
 
Card.
 
Bellarminus
 
S.
 
J.,
 
De
 
scriptoribus
 
ecclesiasticis
 
liber
 
unus,
 
cum
 
adiunctis
 
indicibus
 
undecim
 
et
 
brevi
 
chronologia
 
ab
 
orbe
 
condito
 
usque
 
ad
 
annum
 
1612,
 
Romae,
 
1613;
 
Coloniae,
 
1613,
 
et
 
saepius.
 
L.
 
E.
 
Dupin,
 
Nouvelle
 
bibliothèque
 
des
 
auteurs
 
ecclésiastiques,
 
Paris,
 
1686
 
sq.
 
The
 
several
 
sections
 
of 
 
this
 
extensive
 
work
 
appeared
 
under
 
different
 
titles.
 
The
 
number
 
of 
 
volumes
 
also
 
varies
 
according
 
to
 
the
 
editions.
 
Because
 
of 
 
its
 
very
 
unecclesiastical
 
character
 
the
 
work
 
of 
 
Dupin
 
was
 
placed
 
on
 
the
 
Index,
 
May
 
10.
 
1757.
 
N.
 
Le
 
Nourry
 
O.
 
S.
 
B.,
 
Apparatus
 
ad
 
bibliothecam
 
maximam
 
veterum
 
patrum
 
et
 
antiquorum
 
scriptorum
 
ecclesiasticorum
 
Lugduni
 
(1677)
 
editam,
 
2
 
tomi,
 
Paris,
 
1703
1715.
 
R.
 
Ceillier
 
O.
 
S.
 
B.,
 
Histoire
 
générale
 
de
 

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