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 ALL THE WRITINGS OF THE Ecclesiastical Authors Mention'd in this Volume.

POPE SYMMACHUS.

• ...
  Genuine Works still extant.
  • Nine Letters.
  • Supposititious Works.
  • Letters second and fourth, which were Avitus's, and the twelfth forged.
  AVITUS Bishop of Vienna.
  • Genuine Works.
  • Letters 87.
  • A Homily upon the Rogations.
  • Fragments of some other Homilies, and some Trea∣tises.
  • Five Poems upon the History in the beginning of Ge∣nesis.
  • A Poem of Virginity.
  • A Conference with Gundebaldus.
  Books lost.
  • A Treatise against the Arians, and against those who say that the Flesh of Jesus Christ is only a Phantome.
  • Many Sermons upon different Subjects. Among o∣thers,
  • Two Sermons about Easter.
  • Three Sermons upon the Rogation-days.
  • A Sermon upon the Ascension of Jesus Christ.
  • A Sermon upon Whitsunday.
  • A Sermon upon the Ordination of a Bishop.
  • A Homily upon Jonas.
  • A Homily upon the Ascension of Elias.
  • A Sermon upon the Passion of Jesus Christ.
  • A Sermon upon the Dedication of a Church of St. Mi∣chael, and upon some other Dedications of Chur∣ches.
  • A Sermon upon King Ezechias.
  • Many Pieces in Verse.
  ENNODIUS Bishop of Pavia.
  • ...
    Genuine Works.
    • 297 Letters divided into nine Books.
    • A Panegyric upon King Theodoric.
    • An Apology for the Council which acquitted Pope Symmachus, against a Writing entituled,
    • ...Against the Synod which pronounced an unjust Absolution.
    • The Lives of St. Epiphanius Bishop of Pavia, and St. Anthony Monk of Lerina.
    • An Eucharistic upon his own Life.
    • A Moral Exhortation, written about the Obligation of Bishops to keep a Clergy-man in the House with them, to be witness of all their Actions.
    • Some Formularies.
    • Two Benedictions of the Easter Wax-Candle.
    • Prayers before and after Mass.
    • Orations, or Pieces of Rhetoric, among which there are six upon •…•…cred Subjects, viz.
    • Upon the day of the Promotion of Laurentius to the Bishoprick of Milan.
    • Upon the Dedication of a Church of the Apostles.
    • Upon the Election of a Coadjutor.
    • Upon the Dedication of a Church.
    • Upon a Bishop when he took possession of his See.
    • Against the Hereticks in the East.

HORMISDAS. Genuine Works.

• Letters 80.

St. FULGENTIUS.

• ...
  Genuine Works.
  • An Answer to ten Objections of the Arians.
  • Three Books to King Thrasimund.
  • ...

• ...
  • Three Books addressed to Monimus.
  • Two Books of Remission of Sins.
  • A Letter to Proba of Virginity.
  • Another Letter to the same of Prayer and Compuncti∣on of Heart.
  • A Letter of Consolation and Instruction to the Widow Galla.
  • A Letter to Theodorus upon his Retirement.
  • A Letter of Conjugal Duties.
  • A Letter to Eugippius about Charity towards our Neighbour.
  • A Letter to Venantia about Penance.
  • A Treatise to Donatus about the Faith.
  • A Letter written in the name of fifteen Bishops of Afric to the Monks of Scythia.
  • A Treatise of Predestination and Grace.
  • Letters in the name of the Bishops of Afric to John and Venerius.
  • A Fragment of some Books about the Trinity against Fabianus.
  • A Treatise to Victor about the Divinity of the Word.
  • A Treatise of the Faith to Peter.
  • A Treatise of the Trinity to Felix.
  • A Treatise of the Incarnation to Scarilas.
  • Answers to the Questions of Ferrandus the Deacon.
  • Another Answer to five Questions from the same.
  • A Treatise to Reginus.
  • Ten Sermons.
  Books lost.
  • A Treatise against Pinta.
  • A Conference with King Thrasimund.
  • A Book of the Holy Spirit to Abragilas.
  • A Letter to the Catholicks of Carthage.
  • Two Treatises of Fasting and Prayer.
  • Two Letters to Stephanias, written in the name of the Bishops of Sardinia.
  • A Letter of Ecclesiastical Moderation.
  • Ten Books about the Trinity against Fabianus.
  • Seven Books of Grace against Faustus.
  Supposititious Works.
  • A Treatise against Pinta.
  • A Treatise of Predestination and Grace.
  • A Sermon of the Purisication.
  • Many other Sermons.

EUGIPPIUS. Genuine Works.

• The Life of St. Severinus.
• A Collection of passages out of St. Austin.

FERRANDUS the Deacon.

• ...
  Genuine Works.
  • A Collection of Canons.
  • Two Letters to St. Fulgentius.
  • An Answer to Reginus.
  • Letters to Severus and Anatolius Students of Law.
  • A Writing concerning the three Chapters.
  • The Life of St. Fulgentius.
  Works lost.
  • A Letter to Eugippius about the Trinity.
  • A Letter to St. Anselm.
  • The three first Books of Vigilius of Tapsa.

JOHN MAXENTIUS. Genuine Works.

• A Libel to the Legat of Pope Hormisdas.
• A Confession of Faith.
• Twelve Anathematisms.
• Another Confession of Faith, with an Explication.
• An Answer to the Letter of Hormisdas to Possessor.
• A Writing against the Acephali.

TRIFOLIUS. A Genuine Work.

• A Letter to Faustus Bishop of Rome, about this Expres∣sion, One of the Trinity suffer'd.

ADRIANUS. A genuine Work.

• An Introduction to the Holy Scripture.

LAURENTIUS. Genuine Works.

• A Treatise of Penance.
• A Sermon of Alms.
• A Sermon about the Woman of Canaan.

MARCELLINUS. A genuine Work.

• A Chronicon.

AEGIDDIUS the Abbot. Genuine Works.

• A Letter and Confession of Faith.

ORENTIUS. A genuine Work.

• An Admonition written in Verse, address'd to the Faithful.

BOETHIUS. Genuine Works.

• Among the Treatises of Philosophy, there is only that about Consolation which has relation to Christia∣nity.
• A Treatise of the two Natures.
• A Treatise of the Trinity.

EPIPHANIUS Scholasticus. A genuine Work.

• A Translation of the Histories of Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret.

SEVERUS. Works lost.

• Some Treatises by way of Letter.

JOHN of Scythopolis. Works lost.

• Twelve Books against Eutyches, Dioscorus, and their Followers.

BASIL of Cilicia. Works lost.

• An Ecclesiastical History.
• A Treatise against John of Scythopolis, divided into six∣teen Books.

JOHN I. Suppositious Works.

• Two Letters.

FELIX IV.

• ...
  A genuine Work.
  • The third Letter to Caesarius.
  Supposititious Works.
  • The two first Letters.

BONIFCE II.

• ...
  A genuine Work.
  • A Letter to Caesarius.
  A Supposititious Work.
  • A Letter to Eulalius.
  JOHN II. Bishop of Rome.
  • ...
    Genuine Works.
    • The second Letter to Justinian.
    • A Letter to the Senators concerning the Monks Acem••∣tae.
    • Three Letters about the Affair of Contumeliosus, with a Memorial.
  • ...

• ...
  • ...
    A supposititious Work.
    • The first Letter to Valerius.
  AGAPETUS Bishop of Rome.
  • ...
    Genuine Works.
    • A Letter to Justinian.
    • A Letter to the Bishops of Afric.
    • A Letter to Reparatus.
    • Two Letters to Caesarius Bishop of Arles.
    • A Letter about the Deposition of Anthimus.
    A supposititious Work.
    • A Letter to Anthimus.
  St. EPHREM Patriarch of Antioch. Works lost.
  • A Collection of divers Pieces against the Eutychians.
  • Four Treatises, whereof the first was against the Seve∣rians.
  • The second about divers Quessions.
  • The third an Apology for the Council of Chalcedon.
  • And the fourth, an Advertisement to the Monks of the East.

PROCOPIUS of Gaza. Genuine Works.

• A Commentary upon the Pentateuch.
• Notes upon the Books of Kings and Chronicles.
• A Commentary upon Isaiah.

AN ANONYMOUS AUTHOR. A Work lost.

• A Book of Christians, or an Exposition upon the Octa∣teuch.

The Monk JOBIUS. A Work lost.

• A Treatise of the Word Incarnate, divided ino nine Books, and five and forty Chapters.

JUSTINIAN. Genuine Works.

• Many Novels about Ecclesiastical Matters.
• A Letter and Confession of Faith to Pope John.
• A Letter to the fifth Council.
• Two Letters for Informing against Theodorus of Mop∣suesta.
• A Treatise of Letters against the Errors of Origen.
• An Edict against Anthimus.

DIONYSIUS EXIGUUS. Genuine Works.

• A Collection of Canons and Decretals.
• Two Letters about Easter.
• A Letter to Eugippius.
• Translations of the Canons, of the Letter of St. Cyril, of a Letter of Proterius, of the Life of St. Pacomus, of a Discourse, and of two Letters of Proclus, and of the Treatise of St. Gregory Nyssen about the Cre∣ation of Man.

CASSIODORUS.

• ...
  Genuine Works.
  • Twelve Books of Learning.
  • A Tripartite History.
  • A Chronicle.
  • A Commentary upon the Psalms.
  • An Institution to Divine Learning.
  • A Treatise of Sciences and Arts.
  • A Treatise of the Soul.
• ...
  Works lost.
  • A History of the Goths.
  • A Commentary upon the Epistles of St. Paul, the Acts, and the Revelation.
• ...
  A supposititious Work.
  • A Commentary upon the Canticles.

St. BENEDICT.

• ...
  A genuine Work.
  • The Rule of St. Benedict.
• ...
  Supposititious Works.
  • A Letter to St. Remigius.
  • Sermons upon the Death of St. Placida.
  • A Discourse upon the Departure of St. Maurus.
  • A Letter to the same Saint.
  • The Order of a Monastick Life.

SILVERIUS. Supposititious Works.

• A Letter to Vigilius, and another to Amator.

Pope VIGILIUS. Genuine Works.

• The first Letter to the Bishops that were Acephali.
• The second Letter to Euterius.
• The third to Caesarius Bishop of Arles.
• The fourth to Justinian.
• The fifth to Mennas.
• The sixth, seventh and eighth to Auxanius Bishop of Arles.
• The ninth to the Bishops of the Kingdom of Childe∣bert.
• The tenth and eleventh to Aurelian Successor to Auxa∣nius.
• The Decree call'd Judicatum.
• Letters related in the fifth Council.
• A Writing call'd Constitutum.
• Two Letters publish'd by Mr. Baluzius.
• A Letter to Eutychius.
• A Constitution approving what the fifth Council had done, publish'd by Baluzius.

CAESARIUS Bishop of Arles. Genuine Works.

• Many Homilies.
• A Rule for Nuns address'd to his Sister.
• A Letter about Chastity.
• A Letter to an Abbess about the Government of her Nuns.
• The Testament of this Bishop.

PONTIANUS. A genuine Work.

• A Letter to Justinian.

LEO Archbishop of Sens. A genuine Work.

• A Letter to King Childebert.

TROJANUS Bishop of Santones. A genuine Work.

• A Letter to Eumerius about Baptism.

NICETIUS Bishop of Treves. Genuine Works.

• A Treatise of Watching and singing Psalms.
• Two Letters, one to Justinian, and the other to Closd••∣inda.

AURELIANUS. Genuine Works.

• Two Rules, one for Nuns, and the other for Monks.

TETRADIUS. A genuine Work.

• A Rule for Monks and Nuns.

ARATOR. Genuine Works.

• The History of the Acts of the Apostles in Verse.
• A Letter to Count Partenius.

JUSTINIAN and JUSTUS Bishops of Spain.

• ...
  Genuine Works.
  • A Commentary of Justus upon Canticles.
  • A Letter of the same.
• ...
  A Work lost.
  • A Treatise of Justinian upon divers Questions.

APRIGIUS. A Work lost.

• A Commentary upon the Revelations.

ARETAS. A genuine Work.

• A Commentary upon the Revelations.

ZACHARIAS Bishop of Mitylena. Genuine Works.

• A Treatise against the Manichaeans.
• A Dialogue about the Creation of the World.

CYRILLUS of Scythopolis. A genuine Work.

• The Life of the Abbot Euthimus.

FACUNDUS. Genuine Works.

• Twelve Books in Defence of the three Chapters.
• A Writing to Amocianus.
• A Letter about the Condemnation of the 3 Chapters.

VICTOR of Capua.

• ...
  A genuine Work.
  • The Harmony of the Gospels.
• ...
  A Work lost.
  • The Paschal Cycle.

RUSTICUS Deacon of the Roman Church.

• ...
  A genuine Work.
  • A Treatise by way of Dialogue against the Acephali.
• ...
  Works lost.
  • A Discourse against the Acephali and Nestorians.
  • A Defence of the three Chapters.

PRIMASIUS.

• ...
  Genuine Works.
  • A Commentary upon the Revelation.
  • A Commentary upon St. Paul.
• ...
  A Work lost.
  • A Treatise of Heresies.

JUNILIUS. A genuine Work.

• A Treatise of the parts of the Divine Law.

LIBERATUS. A genuine Work.

• An Historical Memoire of the Contests that arose a∣bout the Heresies of Nestorius and Eutyches.

VICTOR of Tunona.

• ...
  A genuine Work.
  • Part of his Chronicle, beginning at the year 544, and ending at 565.
• ...
  A Work lost.
  • The beginning of this Chronicle, which began from the Creation of the World.

PAULUS SILENTIARIUS. A Genuine Work.

• A Poem containing a description of the Temple of Sancta Sophia.

PELAGIUS I. Genuine Works.

• Sixteen Letters.
• A Fragment of many more.

AGNELLUS. A Genuine Work.

• A Letter to Armenius concerning the Faith.

LEONTIUS. Genuine Works.

• A Treatise of Sects containing ten Conferences.
• Three Books against the Errors of Euryches.
• A Treatise against the Pieces alledg'd by the Eutychians.
• A Treatise against the Acephali.
• Some other Treatises in Manuscript.

FORTUNATUS.

• ...
  Genuine Works.
  • Four Books of the Life of St. Martin.
  • Ten Books of divers Poems.
  • The Lives of many Saints.
• ...
  A Work lost.
  • The eleventh Book of Poems.

BANDONINIA. A Genuine Work.

• The second Book of the Life of St. Rudegonda.

St. GERMANUS Bishop of Paris. A Genuine Work.

• A Letter to Brunechildis.

MARTINUS of Bracara. Genuine Works.

• A Collection of Canons.
• The way of living honestly, or a Treatise of the four Cardinal Vertues.
• A Version of some Sentences of Greek Monks.

PASCASIUS a Deacon. A Genuine Work.

• A Translation of some Questions and Answers of Greek Monks.

JOANNES SCOLASTICUS. Genuine Works.

• A Collection of Canons.
• A Collection of Ecclesiastical and Civil Laws.

GREGORY of Tours.

• ...
  Genuine Works.
  • Ten Books of the History of France.
  • Eight Books of Miracles, or the Lives of Saints.
  • The Lives of some Saints.
• ...
  Works lost.
  • A Commentary upon the Psalms.
  • A Treatise of the Ecclesiastical Course, or the Divine Offices.
  • A Preface to the Book of Masses of Sidonius.
  • A Chronicle and Abridgment of History.

GILDAS.

• ...
  A genuine Work.
  • A Lamentation for the Miseries of England.
• ...
  Supposititious Works.
  • Predictions.
  • The Comedy entituled Aulularia.

EVANTIUS. A genuine Work.

• A Letter against those who think that the Blood of A∣nimals is impure.

FERREOLUS.

• ...
  A genuine Work.
  • A Rule for the Monks.
• ...
  A Work lost.
  • A Letter.

SEDATUS. A genuine Work.

• A Homily of Epiphanius.

CHRYSIPPUS. A genuine Work.

• A Homily in the praise of the Virgin Mary.

PELAGIUS II.

• ...
  Genuine Works.
  • The third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh Letters, and some Decrees.
• ...
  Supposititious Works.
  • The first, second, eighth and ninth Letters.

EULOGIUS. Works lost.

• Six Books against Novatus.
• Two Books of Apology for the Letter of St. Leo against Timotheus and Severus.
• Another Defence of the same Letter.
• Invectives against Theodosius and the Caianites.

JOHN the younger.

• ...
  Genuine Works.
  • A Homily of Penance.
  • Two Penitential Books.
• ...
  Works lost.
  • A Letter to Leander.

JOHN of Biclarum.

• ...
  A genuine Work.
  • A Chronicle from the year 566, to 590.
• ...
  A Book lost.
  • A Rule for his Monks of Biclarum.

ANASTASIUS SINAITA.

• ...
  Genuine Works.
  • The Guide of the true Way against the Acephali.
  • Books II, of Anagogical Considerations about the Cre∣ation of the World.
  • Five Dogmatical Discourses.
  • Six Sermons.
  • Divers Manuscript Treatises.
• ...
  Supposititious Works.
  • 154 Questions upon the Scripture.

EVAGRIUS. Genuine Works.

• Six Books of Ecclesiastical History.

St. JOHN CLIMACUS. Genuine Works.

• A Scale of the Cloister, containing thirty Degrees.
• A Letter to John Abbot of Raithu.

JOHN of Raithu. Genuine Works.

• A Letter to St. John Climacus.
• A Commendation and Commentary upon his Scale.

St. GREGORY I.

• ...
  Genuine Works.
  • Twelve Books of Letters, which are in number 840, or thereabouts.
  • The Questions of St. Austin, and the Answers of St. Gregory.
  • Morals upon Job, divided into five and thirty Books, and distributed into six parts.
  • Homilies upon Ezechiel.
  • Two Books of Homilies upon the Gospels.
  • A Dialogue divided into three Books.
  • Commentaries upon the Book of Kings and Canticles, collected by the Abbot Claudus.
• ...
  Supposititious Works.
  • The Letter 54 of the seventh Book.
  • The 31st Letter of the tenth Book.
  • The Memorial about the Affair of Phocas.
  • The Priviledges granted to the Churches of Autun.
  • The Priviledge of St. Medard.
  • An Exposition of the seven Penitential Psalms.
  • The Antiphonary and the Sacramentary.

PATERIUS.

• ...
  Genuine Works.
  • Two Books of Collections of Passages out of St. Grego∣ry upon the Scripture.
• ...
  A Book lost.
  • A third Book.

St. LEANDER Bishop of Sevil.

• ...
  Genuine Works.
  • A Letter to his sister Florentina.
  • A Discourse about the Conversion of the Goths.
• ...
  Works lost.
  • Two Books against Hereticks.
  • A Treatise against the Arians.
  • An Edition of the Psalms.
  • Letters to St. Gregory.
  • A Letter about Baptism address'd to his Brother.
  • Many familiar Letters.

LICINIANUS and SEVERUS Bishops of Spain. Works lost.

• Letters of Licinianus.
• A Treatise of Severus against Vincentius Bishop of Sa∣ragosa.
• Another Treatise of the same about Virginity.

DINAMIUS. A genuine Work.

• The Life of St. Marius an Abbot.

EUTROPIUS.

• ...
  A genuine Work.
  • A Letter concerning the Reformation of Monks.
• ...
  A Work lost.
  • A Letter about the Unction of those who are bip∣tiz'd.

MAXIMUS Bishop of Saragosa. Works lost.

• The History of Spain, and some other Treatises in Prose and Verse.

EUSTRATIUS. A genuiue Work.

• A Treatise of the Souls of the Dead.

ANDRONICIANUS. Works lost.

• Two Books against the Eunomians.

LUCINIUS CHARINUS. Works lost.

• The Journeys of the Apostles.

METRODORUS. A Work lost.

• A Paschal Cycle.

HERACLIANUS Bishop of Chalcedon. Works lost.

• Twenty Books against the Manicheans.

LEONTIUS Bishop of Arabissa. A Work lost.

• A Homily of the Creation and of Lazarus.