In view of only poorly preserved primary liturgical sources (e.g. "lectionaries" or simple listings of scriptural readings) of the final period of late antiquity, liturgical-historical research depends almost exclusively on the evaluation of homiletic testimonials. Concerning the North African area they are represented primarily by St. Augustine´s sermons, most of them containing direct or indirect references to one or more of their immediately preceding biblical lessons. Being based on a...

The 11th volume of the series “Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus”, edited by the Church Fathers Commission at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, lists all medieval manuscripts kept nowadays in Russia, Slovenia, and Hungary which contain genuine works of Augustine or spurious ones ascribed to him. The material is presented in two catalogues, one ordered by works, one by libraries. Part 1 (Werkverzeichnis) gives all works, letters, and sermons as well as...

This volume provides a contribution to our understanding of Augustine's exegetical techniques in his three commentaries on the biblical account of the Creation. The focus of the investigation is a philological one. The first section sets Augustine´s methods of interpretation in the historical context of contemporary Christian commentary. Since there are no important surviving Latin commentaries on the book of Genesis from the time of Augustine, the first step is a comparative analysis of extant...

The 10th volume of the catalogue series "Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus", edited by the Church Fathers Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, lists the libraries and archives of East Germany as well as the re-united manuscripts of former West- and East-Berlin. Part 1 (Werkverzeichnis) contains the (pseudo-)Augustinian works and also provides - apart from Augustine´s sermons - a listing of those texts which are in the codices attributed to the...

This volume is the result of the international postgraduate workshop "Editing Latin Patristic Texts", organized by the Kirchenväterkommission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in the summer of 2006. In the course of this workshop, the pseudo-Augustine Collatio cum Pascentio served as an example for carrying out in teamwork the various steps of editing a text such as collating manuscripts, establishing a stemma codicum, constituing the text, compiling a critical apparatus, etc. This is the...

There has not been done much research on the smaller, mostly pseudonymic biblical poems of late antiquity yet. One of these, the double poem "In Genesin – De Evangelio", written by the so-called Pseudo-Hilary, has now been newly edited, thoroughly commented (more or less the first time, not taking into account the small book of J. Weitz, 1625) with respect to philological and theological questions, including a translation of the text, which is inserted piece by piece into the commentary, and...

The Carmina natalicia of Paulinus of Nola is, from the fourth poem (c. 15 as based on the numbering in the collected poetical oeuvre in CSEL 30), devoted to the life and deeds of S. Felix of Nola. Within this metrical biography, c. 18 (the sixth poem of the Carmina natalicia) holds a key position, marking the transition from the Saint’s earthly to heavenly existence and his miraculous powers: in two sections of more or less equal length, Paulinus first focuses on Felix’s funeral and his...

It is a demanding task to edit a Latin text of the patristic era according to strictly scholarly philological methods; in addition to theological, linguistic and paleographic skills, the editor must take into account the specific genre of the text to be edited. This complex situation becomes even more evident when one considers the different criteria by which the manuscript tradition of different texts must be judged. On the one hand, there are pieces of very high literary aspirations handed...

Volume IX of the series "Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des heiligen Augustinus" presents a catalogue of the manuscripts kept in Switzerland. Part One (Catalogue of Works) contains not only manuscripts of Augustinian and extensive pseudo-Augustinian works, but also gives detailed lists of the homilies and those texts ascribed to St. Augustine which have been identified as works by other authors; this is the same format chosen for two previous volumes (vol. VII: Czech Republic,...

The catalogue of the manuscripts of Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands is now presented as Volume VIII of the series “Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des heiligen Augustinus”. Part One (Catalogue of works) presents not only Augustinian and current pseudo- Augustinian works, but also lists the sermons and texts ascribed to St. Augustine, as was also effected in Volume VII. Part Two (Catalogue of libraries)compiles all the manuscripts (about 1200) by country, location and...