The Primitiae of the ‘Corpus Christianorum’
In 1953 there was issued from the Brepols press of Turnhout (Belgium) a modest paper-bound fascicle of a hundred pages that had a double importance for students of patristics. Not only did it supply, among other things, critical texts (one of them never before printed) of two of the writings of Tert...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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1955
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Traditio
Year: 1955, Volume: 11, Pages: 421-427 |
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| Summary: | In 1953 there was issued from the Brepols press of Turnhout (Belgium) a modest paper-bound fascicle of a hundred pages that had a double importance for students of patristics. Not only did it supply, among other things, critical texts (one of them never before printed) of two of the writings of Tertullian; it gave tangible proof that a new edition of all the earlier Latin Christian writings, announced as a project five years earlier, had gone beyond the planning stage and, in this small yet solid specimen, was actually in being — the Series latina of a Corpus Christianorum (CCL) directed by the Benedictines of the Abbey of St. Pierre, Steenbrugge (Belgium). Since then, that initial fascicle has made a new appearance as the opening part of a full, 750-page volume that presents half of Tertullian's works and forms the first of the series. To it Volume II has added its own total of 900 pages to bring Tertullian (and Ps.-Tertullian) to completion. At other points in a carefully pre-established sequence, yet other volumes have come to hand: the Tractatus of St. Augustine on the Gospel of St. John (36) and the sermons of Caesarius of Arles (103, 104). It is this two-year yield of five volumes, seen in relation to the total design for the Series latina of the new Corpus, that is the subject of the present, brief survey. |
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| ISSN: | 2166-5508 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Traditio
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0362152900006425 |