A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

A TABLE of the WORKS of the Ecclesiastical Authors of the Ninth Age; disposed according to the Subjects they treat of.

Treatises against the Jews.

• AGobard's Letters against the Jewish Superstitions.
• Amolo's Treatise against the Jews.
• Theodorus Abucara's Treatise of Religion.

Treatises against Superstition.

• Agobard's Petition to Lewis the Godly, against the Law of Gondeb••dus.
• —His Books against those that believed that Sorcerers could bring Hail and Thunder, and inflict Diseases.
• —His Answer to Fredigisus
• —His Treatise against the Delusions of those who pretended to be seized by the Falling-Sickness.
• —His Treatise against the Judgment of God by Fire, Hot Water or by Duels.

Bodies of Divinity.

• Rabanus's Treatise about the Universe.

Upon the Trinity.

• Gotteschalcus and Hincmarus's Treatise upon this Ex∣pression, Trina Deitas.

Upon the Incarnation.

• Agobard's Treatise against Foelix Orgelitanus.
• Paschasius's Treatise upon the Birth of Jesus Christ.
• Bertram's Treatise upon Christ's Nativity.
• Photius's Book about the Wills of Christ.
• —His 7 other Theological Treatises.

Upon the Eucharist.

• Haymo's Treatise of the Body and Blood of our Sa∣viour.
• Paschasius's Book upon the Body and Blood of Christ.
• Frudegarius's Letter upon the same Subject.
• Bertram's Treatise of the Lord's Supper.
• Two Nameless Treatises upon the same Subject.
• Aldervaldus's Collection of Passages out of the Fathers, upon the Eucharist, against J. Scotus.

About the Soul.

• Rabanus's Treatise of the Soul.

About Antichrist.

• Rabanus's Tract of the Life and Manners of Antichrist.

About Images.

• Nicephorus's 4 Treatises against the Iconoclasts.
• A Doctrinal Treatise of Theodorus Studita.
• Dungal's Book against Claudius of Turin of Images.
• Jonas of Orleans's Tract against Claudius of Turin.
• Agobard's Treatise of Images.

In the Disputes between the Greeks and Latins.

• Photius's Letter to the Patriarch of Aquileia, against the Latins.
• Bertram's Treatise in answer to the Objections of the Greeks.
• Aeneas's Treatise upon the same Subject.

About Grace and Predestination.

• Rabanus's 3 Letters against Gotteschalcus.
• Amolo's Letters and Tracts.
• Hincmarus's Treatise.
• Gotteschalcus's Confession of his Faith.
• Some Fragments of his other Writings.
• Bertram's Letter and Treatise of Predestination.
• Jo. Scotus's Treatise of Predestination.
• Prudentius Bishop of Troyes's Book of Predestination, against Scotus.
• —His Letter to the Synod of Sens.
• —His Letters to Hincmarus and Pardulus.
• Florus, a Deacon of Lyons's Tracts against Scotus.
• —A Fragment of his Discourse of Predesti∣nation.
• Remigius Archbishop of Lyons's Treatise, in answer to Hincmarus.
• —His Treatise against the Articles of Quiercy.
• Lupus Abbot of Ferrara, his Treatise upon the three Questions
• —His Letters to Hincmarus and Charles the Bald.

Books of Church-Discipline.

• Nicephorus's Canonical Letters and Canons.
• Amalarius's Treatise of the Ceremonies of Baptism.
• Leid••adus's Treatise of Baptism.
• —His Letter to Charles the Great, with a Trea∣tise of the Renunciations made in Baptism.
• —Another Letter to Charles the Great, about the use he put the Revenues of his Church to.
• Hatto, Bishop of Basil, his Constitutions.
• Jesse, Bishop of Amiens's Letter about the Ceremonies of Baptism.
• Odilbert's Preface to his Treatise upon the same subject.
• Adelardus's Constitutions for the Church of Corby.
• Ansegisus's Collection of Canons.
• Halitgarius's Penitential.
• Agobardus's Writings against the Converse of Christi∣ans with Jews.
• —His Treatise of the Rights and Privileges of the Priesthood.
• —His Treatise about the Baptism of Jewish Slaves.
• —His Letter to the Clergy of Lyons about the Government of the Church
• —His Treatise about disposing of the Church-Revenues.
• —His Treatise about correcting the Anti∣phonies.
• —His Book against Amalarius Deacon of Metz▪ Amalarius Deacon of Metz, Four Books De Ecclesiasti∣cis Officiis.
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• —His Book of the Order of the Antiphonies.
• —His Rules for Canons and Canonesses.
• —His 5 Letters.
• —His Letter to Pope Gregory IV.
• Rabanus's Book of Directions for Clerks
• —His Treatise of Holy Orders and Sacraments.
• —His 3 Books of Ecclesiastical Discipline.
• —His 2 Books dedicated to Bonosus
• —His Penitential and Canonical Letter to Heri∣baldus.
• —His Letter to Humber about the degrees of Consanguinity.
• —His Treatise of Suffragans.
• —His Canonical Letters to Regimboldus.
• Walafridus Strabo's Treatise of Ecclesiastical Wor∣ship.
• Amolo's Letter to Theobaldus Bishop of Langres.
• Sergius II's Letter to Drogo Bishop of Meiz.
• Hincmarus's Treatise about the Divorce of Lotharius and Queen Theutberga.
• —His Works of 55 Articles.
• —His Constitutions and Rules for his Diocess
• —His Writings and Letters upon several Eccle∣siastical Matters which happened in his Time.
• Hincmarus of Laon's Letter.
• —His Collection of Decretals and other Wri∣tings.
• Florus's Treatise upon the Celebration of the Mass.
• —Two Fragments of a Collection of Canons.
• Lupus Abbot of Ferrara's Letters.
• Leo IV's Letter and Discourse.
• Benedict III's Letters.
• Isaac Bishop of Langres's Collection of Ecclesiastical Laws.
• Herardus's Laws, taken out of the Canons.
• Nicholas I's several Letters.
• —His Answer to the Bulgarians.
• Photius's Nomocanon and several Letters.
• Pope Adrian's Letters
• Wulfadus's Pastoral Letters.
• Gauterius's Collection of Canons.
• Luitbertus's Letter to King Lewis.
• John VIII. Pope, several Letters.
• Remigius Bishop of Auxerre, his Exposition of the Canon of the Mass.
• Altmannus's Letter.
• Pope Steven V's Letters.
• Riculphus's Pastoral Letter.
• Elias, Patriarch of Jerusalem, his Letter to Charles the Gross.
• Formosus's Letter to Stilianus.
• Steven VI's two Letters.
• Auxilius's two Treatises about the Validity of the Or∣dinations made by Formosus.
• Regino's Collection of Canons.

Critical Works upon the Bible.

• Sticometria, attributed to Nicephorus.
• Rabanus's Treatise upon Allegories.
• Several Letters of Photius.

Commentaries upon the Holy Scripture.

• Rabanus and Haymo's Comments upon most of the Books of the Holy Bible.
• Wal. Strabo's ordinary Gloss upon all the Bible.
• Angelomus's Comment upon the 4 Books of Kings and the Canticles.
• Remigius of Auxerre's Comments upon the Psalms.

Upon the Prophets.

• Paschasius's Comments upon the Lamentations and 44th Psalm
• Remegius of Auxerre's Explication of the 12 Lesser Prophets.

Upon the Evangelists.

• Paschasius's Comments upon S. Matthew.
• Druthmarus's Comments upon the same Gospel.

Upon S. Paul's Epistles.

• Claudius of Turin's Comment on the Galatians.
• Sedulus's Comments upon S. Paul's Epistles.
• Florus's Comments upon the same.

Historical Works.

• Nicephorus's Ecclesiastical History and Chronology.
• —His Letter to Pope Leo III.
• Theodorus Studita's Letter and Life of S. Plato.
• Joseph Bishop of Thessalonica's Letter.
• Naucratius's Life of Theodorus Studita.
• Theodorus's Relation of a Conference, and the Martyr∣dom of the Patriarch Nicephorus.
• Theophanes's Hymn in praise of his Brother Theodorus.
• Michael Syncellus's Life of S. Dionysius.
• Theosterictus's Life of S. Nicetas.
• S. Ludgerus's Life of S. Gregory Bishop of Utrecht.
• —His Relation of S. Boniface's Mission.
• —His Letter concerning the Life and Miracles of S. Luitbertus.
• Sergius's Ecclesiastical History.
• Ho••o's Relation of the Visions of S. Wettin.
• Aegyl's Account of the chief Actions of S. Sturmio.
• Eginhard's Life of Charles the Great
• —His ••nnals, and the Story of the Translation of the Reliques of S. Marcellinus.
  • Theganus's Life of Lewis the Godly.
• Ardo Smaragdus's Life of S. Benedict of Aniane.
• A Relation of the Conference of the Deputies with Pope Leo about the Procession of the Holy Ghost.
• Orthegrinus's Life of S Ludgerus.
• Alfridus's Life of the same Saint.
• Vufinus Boetius's Life of S. Janianus Abbot of Mair.
• Paschasius's Life of Wala.
• Agobardus's Letter and Manifesto about the Quarrel between Lewis the Godly and his Children.
• —His Letter to Ebbo.
• —His Epitaph on Charles the Great.
• —His Poem upon the Translation of the Re∣liques of some Saints.
• Hilduin's Areopageticks
• Haymo, Bishop of Halberstadt's Abridgment of Ecclesi∣astical Histories.
• An••charius's Life of Wi••i••adus Bishop of Brem.
• Rabanus's Martyrology, and his Book of the Know∣ledg of the account of Time.
• Wal. Strabo's Relation of the Destruction of the Tem∣ple of Jerusalem.
• —His Lives of S. Gallus, S. Othmarus and S. Blaith∣matus, with the Visions of S. W••tin.
• —His Lives of Rabanus and S. Lioba.
• Ermantarius's Translation of the Reliques of S. Phi∣libert.
• Milo's Life of S. Amandus.
• Wandelbert's Martyrology.
• Ermanricus's Life of S. Magnus and S. Sola.
• —His Dialogue about the Foundation of his Monastery.
• Methodius's Life of S. Dionysius.
• Hincmarus's Coronations of the Kings and Queens.
• Lupus Abbot of Ferrara's Lives of S. Maximinus and S. Wigbert.
• Eulogius's Lives of the Martyrs of Corduba.
• —Some other of his Works.
  • Alvarus's History of the Martyrpom of Eulogius.
• Several Letters of Nicholas I. Pope.
• Ignatius's Letters to the Popes Nicholas and Adrian.
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• ... Photius's first Letter; containing the History of the seven first General Councils; and some others.
• —His Description of the New Church at Constan∣tinople
• Hucbaldus's Lives of several Saints.
• Iso's Life and Miracles of S. Othmarus.
• Petrus Siculus's History of the Heresie of the Mani∣chees.
• Ado's Martyrology and Chronicon.
• —His Treatise of the Festivals of the Apostles.
• —His Lives of S. Desiderius and S. Theuderius.
• Usuardus's Martyrology.
• Anastasius Bibliothecarius's Translations of the Acts of the Council of Constantinople; his threefold Chro∣nology; his Life of S. John the Almsgiver; and the Martyrdom of S. Demetrius.
• —His Lives of the Popes.
• Rambartus's Life of Anscharius.
• Herricus's Life and Miracles of S. German of Auxerre.—His Life of S. Caesarius.
• Aimonius's account of the Translation of the Body of S. Vincent.
• —Two Books of the Miracles of S German, Bi∣shop of Paris.
• —His History of the Translation of the Reli∣ques of several Saints.
• Abbo's 2 Books of the Siege of Paris by the Normans.
• Wolfadus's Life and Miracles of S Walpurgus.
• Herempers's Chronicon of Mount Cassin.
• Aldrivaldus's History of the Translation of S. Benedict and S. Scholasticus; and a Book of the Miracles of S. Benedict.
• Nicetas's Life of Ignatius, Patriarch of Constanti∣nople.
• ...Liber Synodicus.
• Regino's Chronicon.
• Asserius's History of King Alfredus.
• Leo the Wise, his Discourse of the Life of S. J. Chry∣sostome.
• Adelinus's Lives of S. Opportuna and S. Godegrand.

Works of Morality and Piety.

• Leidradus's Consolatory Letter to his Sister.
• Smaragdus's Treatise of the Duty of a Prince.
• Agobardus's Discourse of Faith.
• Hincmarus's Advice to Kings and Princes.

Sermons.

• 134 Sermons of Theodorus Studita.
• Joseph Bishop of Thess••lonica's Discourses of the Cros.
• Michael Syncellus's Panegyrick of the Angels.
• Smaragdus's Sermons upon the Epistles and Gospels.
• Haymo's Sermons.
• Rabanus's Sermons.
• Methodius's Sermons throughout the Year.
• —His Panegyrick on S. Agatha.
• Photius's Homily.
• Abbo's 5 Sermons.
• George, Chartophylax at Constantinople, his Sermons.
• Theophanes Cerameus's Sermons.
• Nicetas's Panegyricks.
• Leo the Wise's Sermons.

VVorks about a Monastick Life.

• Benedict of Aniane, his Code and Concord of Monastick Rules.
• Smaragdus's Crown of the Monks.
• —His Comment upon S. Benedict's Rule.
• Hildmarus's Comment upon S. Benedict's Rule, a M. S.

Poems.

• Agobard's Verses upon the Translation of the Reliques of several Saints.
• —His Epitaph upon Charles the Great.
• Rabanus's Work upon the Cross.
• —Other Poems of his.
• Some Poems of Florus Deacon of Lyons, which bear the Name of Drepanius Florus.
• —Another Piece of his in Verse.
• Lupus Abbot of Ferrara's 2 Homilies and 2 Hymns.
• Hucbaldus's Poem in praise of Baldness.

Critical Works upon Authors.

• Photius's Bibliotheca.