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NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works - Holy Bible Institute

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Editions <strong>and</strong> Manuscripts.E. Fialon, in his Ét. Hist. (1869) has translated the Ηεξͅμερον; <strong>and</strong> in 1889 the Panégyriquedue Martyr Gordius was published in French by J. Genouille.A complete account of the bibliography of St. <strong>Basil</strong> is given in the Notitia ex BibliothecaFabricii (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 ChristianClassic Series.Of all the smaller works a great popularity, as far as popularity can be gauged by thenumber of editions <strong>and</strong> translations, has belonged to the Advice to the Young <strong>and</strong> the Homilyon the Forty Martyrs.The mss. collated by the Ben. Edd. for their edition of the De Spiritu Sancto are five entitledRegii, <strong>and</strong> 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 ofthe Xth c., the Colbertinus (4529) <strong>and</strong> the Regius Tertius(2893) as of the XI th c., <strong>and</strong> the RegiusPrimus (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., alsoat Vienna; Cod. xxiii, XI th c., in the Library of the <strong>Holy</strong> 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, <strong>and</strong> numbered respectively1824, 2286 (originally in the collection of Henry II. at Fontainebleau, the Regius Primus ofthe 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), <strong>and</strong>2989, two mss. entitled Colbertinus, 3069 <strong>and</strong> 4721, two Coistiniani, 229, IX th c., <strong>and</strong> 235;<strong>and</strong> a ms. in the Bodleian, “a doctissimo viro Joanne Wolf collatus.”The sources of the Ben. Ed. of the <strong>Letters</strong> were Coislinianus 237, XI th c., a CodexHarlæanus of the Xth or XI th c., <strong>and</strong> a Codex Medicæus, Codex Regius 2293, Codex Regius2897, Codex Regius 2896, Codex Regius 2502, Codex Regius 1824, Codex Regius 1906, <strong>and</strong>Codex Regius 19<strong>08.</strong>————————————The following mss. of St. <strong>Basil</strong> are in the library of the Bodleian at Oxford:lxxvHomiliæ et Epistolæ. Codex membranaceus, in 4to majori ff. 250, sec. xii. Epistola adOptimum, episcopum, in septem ultiones. Cain. fol. iii.Epistola ad virginem lapsam, fol. 211b.Ejusdem <strong>Basil</strong>ii 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.133

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