An Ancient Anthology of Quotations from Augustine's Homiletic Works
Gert Partœns
The subject of the present article is an ascetic anthology that was compiled in first half ninth century at latest and consists fragments extracted from saint Augustine’s Tractatus euangelium Iohannis, his Enarrationes psalmos, early medieval collection mainly Augustinian sermons De uerbis Domini et Apostoli. In spite exegetical interest its sources, anthology’s have a moralizing focus, which explains why it attributed title Ex sermonibus sancti Augustini episcopi sententiae eximiae de confessione poenitentia atque peccatorum indulgentia one branches manuscript transmission. offers (1) discussion position sources within direct transmission Augustine’ works ; (2) list (with bibliography) witnesses (mainly German Swiss origin, although there are some isolated French Spanish witnesses) (3) analysis their stemmatical relationships (based on study both manuscripts’ general composition textual variants) (4) critical edition part also sheds light nature version Quinquaginta homiliae (a sermon Arlesian origin composed sermons) joined with archetype latter’s
Revue Bénédictine