Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Series 2 - The Still Small ...

Editions and Manuscripts.
E. Fialon, in his Ét. Hist. (1869) has translated the Ηεξͅμερον; and in 1889 the Panégyrique
due Martyr Gordius was published in French by J. Genouille.
A complete account of the bibliography of St. Basil is given in the Notitia ex Bibliotheca
Fabricii (Ed. Harles, tom. ix. 1804), in Migne’s ed. vol. i., Prolegomena p. ccxli.
In 1888 a translation of the De Spiritu Sancto, by G. Lewis, was included in the Christian
Classic Series.
Of all the smaller works a great popularity, as far as popularity can be gauged by the
number of editions and translations, has belonged to the Advice to the Young and the Homily
on the Forty Martyrs.
The mss. collated by the Ben. Edd. for their edition of the De Spiritu Sancto are five entitled
Regii, and a sixth known as Colbertinus, now in the national library at Paris. The Ben.
Regius Secundus (2293) is described by Omont (Inventaire Sommaire des mss. Grecs) as of
the Xth c., the Colbertinus (4529) and the Regius Tertius(2893) as of the XI th c., and the Regius
Primus (2286), Regius Quartus (2896), Regius Quintus(3430) as of the XIV th c.
For his edition, Mr. C. F. H. Johnston also collated or had collated 22,509 Add. mss.,
Xth c., in the British Museum; codd. Misc. xxxvii., XI th c., in the Bodleian Library at Oxford;
Cod. Theol. 142, XII th c., in the Imperial Library at Vienna; Cod. Theol. 18, XIV th c., also
at Vienna; Cod. xxiii, XI th c., in the Library of the Holy Synod at Moscow; 500 (Reg. 1824,
3) G, XI th c., at Paris; Cod. lviii., Xth c., at St. Mark’s, Venice; Cod. lxvi., XII th c., also at St.
Mark’s, Venice; Codd. Regin. Suaecor. 35, XIV th c., in the Vatican at Rome.
For the Hexæmeron the Ben. Edd. used eight mss. styled Regii, and numbered respectively
1824, 2286 (originally in the collection of Henry II. at Fontainebleau, the Regius Primus of
the enumeration for the De Spiritu Sancto, but the Secundus for that of the Hexæmeron),
2287 (1°), 2287 (2°), 2349, 2892, 2896 (the Regius Quartus of the De Spiritu Sancto), and
2989, two mss. entitled Colbertinus, 3069 and 4721, two Coistiniani, 229, IX th c., and 235;
and a ms. in the Bodleian, “a doctissimo viro Joanne Wolf collatus.”
The sources of the Ben. Ed. of the Letters were Coislinianus 237, XI th c., a Codex
Harlæanus of the Xth or XI th c., and a Codex Medicæus, Codex Regius 2293, Codex Regius
2897, Codex Regius 2896, Codex Regius 2502, Codex Regius 1824, Codex Regius 1906, and
Codex Regius 1908.
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The following mss. of St. Basil are in the library of the Bodleian at Oxford:
Homiliæ et Epistolæ. Codex membranaceus, in 4to majori ff. 250, sec. xii. Epistola ad
Optimum, episcopum, in septem ultiones. Cain. fol. iii.
Epistola ad virginem lapsam, fol. 211b.
Ejusdem Basilii epistola ad monachum lapsum, fol. 215b.
Epistolæ canonicæ. Barocciani. xxvi. 285b (i.e. pt. 1, p. 36).
Codex membranaceus, in 4to minori, ff. 370, sec. xi. fol. 285b.
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