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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.

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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.
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Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
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London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,
MDCXCIII [1693]
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Church history.
Fathers of the church -- Bio-bibliography.
Christian literature, Early -- Bio-bibliography.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69887.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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A TABLE of the Works of the Ecclesiastical Writers of VII and VIII Centuries of the Church.

S. ISIDORE of Sevil.
  • His Genuine WORKS which we have.
    • TWenty Books of Etymologies or Origins.
    • Three Books of the differences of Names.
    • A Book of the nature of things.
    • A Chronicon from the beginning of the World to the Empire of Heraclius.
    • The History of the Goths.
    • An Abridgment of the History of the Vandals and Sweves.
    • A Treatise of the Ecclesiastical Writers.
    • An History of the Life and Death of certain Saints.
    • Prolegomena upon the Bible,
    • Some Notes upon the Pentateuch, Joshua, the Books of Kings and Ezra.
    • An allegorical Book upon the Octateuch.
    • A Commentary upon the Ca••••icles.
    • Two Books against the Jews.
    • Two Books of the Offices of the Church.
    • Some Letters.
    • A Rule for Monks.
    • Two Books, entituled Sy•…•…ma.
    • A Treatise of the contempt of the World.
    • The Lamentations of Repentance.
    • A Prayer about amendment of Life.
    • A Collection of Sentences taken out of S. Gregory.
  • BOOKS Supposititious.
    • His fourth and fifth Letters.
    • A Letter to Massanus.
    • A Treatise about the opposition of Vertues and Vices.
BRAULIO Bishop of Saragosa. His Genuine WORKS.
  • He perfected and set in order Isidore's Books of Origin's, and made a Catalogue of his Works.
  • The Life of S. Milan and Leocadia is thought to be his.
S. COLUMBANUS Abbot of Lex∣euil and Bobio.
  • His Genuine WORKS.
    • Two Letters in Verse concerning the shortness of Life, and 4 other Poems.
    • A Rule for Monks, with a Penitential and some other Instructions.
    • A Treatise of 20 principal Sins.
    • Four Letters.
  • WORKS Lost.
    • A Commentary upon the Psalms.
    • Some Letters.
    • A Treatise against the Arians.
    • A Treatise about Easter.
  • Spurious WORKS.
    • The 15th and 17th Instruction.
    • A Treatise of Penances for the Monks, Clergy and Laity.
AELERAN an Irish Presbyter. His Genuine WORKS.
  • A Mystical Treatise about the Genealogy of Jesus Christ.
CUMIANUS or CUMINUS, an Irish Abbot.
  • A Penitential.
  • A Letter concerning Easter.
HESY CHIUS, a Priest of Jerusalem
  • His Genuine WORKS.
    • A Commentary upon Leviticus.
    • Two Homilies upon the Virgin Mary.
  • WORKS Lost.
    • Four Discourses cited by Photius in his 51st Volume of his Bibliotheca.
    • Some Fragments of two Sermons cited by Photius.
    • A Summary of the 12 small Prophets and Isaias, in Greek.
    • The Treatise of Temperance, the Ecclesiastical Hi∣story mentioned in the fifth Council, as also the Harmony of the Gospels, of whom M. Cotelerius hath published an Abridgment, belong to a more ancient Hesychius.
    • There was also another Hesychius, a Priest of Jeru∣salem more modern, of whom Photius speaks in Vol. 52. of his Bibliotheca, and gives us the Ex∣tracts of four of his Sermons.
EUSEBIUS of Thessalonica. WORKS Lost.
  • A Letter against a dissembling Monk.
  • Ten Books against the Errors of the same Monk.
BONIFACE IV. Bishop of Rome. Supposititious WORKS.
  • A Decree and Letter published by Holstenius.
Pope DEUS-DEDIT. His Spurious WORKS.
  • A Letter to Gordian.
JOHANNES PHILOPONUS.
  • His Genuine WORKS.
    • A Treatise upon the six days Works.
    • A Treatise upon Easter.
    • Philosophical Treatises.
  • WORKS Lost.
    • A Treatise against Jamblichus the Philosopher.
    • A Treatise of the Resurrection.
    • A Treatise of the 4th Council
    • A Treatise against the Discourse of Joannes Schola∣sticus, Patriarch of Constantinople.

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    THEODOSIUS the Monk. A Work lost.
    • A Writing against Philoponius.
    CONON, EUGENIUS and THEMISTIUS. Works lost.
    • Invectives against Philoponus.
    • Themistius's Apology for Theophobius.
    • His Answer to Theodorus.
    THEODORUS the Monk.
    • A Book written again Themistius.
    NICIAS, Works lost.
    • A Book against Philoponus, intituled, the Arbiter or Judge.
    • A Treatise against Severus.
    • Two Books against the Heathens.
    ANTIOCHUS. A Genuine Work.
    • His Pandects of the Holy Scripture.
    JOHN of Thessalonica.
    • A Genuine Work
      • Some Homilies upon the Women who carried Spices to embalm the Body of Jesus Christ.
    • A Work lost.
      • Some Dialogues about Religion.
    GREGORY of Antioch. A Genuine Work.
    • A Discourse about the Women that embalmed Je∣sus Christ.
    JOHN, Bishop of Sarragosa. A Work lost.
    • Prayers to be sung in the Service of the Church.
    JUSTUS, Bishop of Toledo. A Genuine Work.
    • A Letter to Richilan.
    CONANTIUS PALENTINUS. Works lost.
    • Hymns and Prayers.
    BONIFACE V. A Genuine Work.
    • Three Letters mentioned by Bede.
    MODESTUS, Bishop of Jerusalem. Works lost.
    • His Sermons of which Photius, Vol. 275. Biblioth. gives us some Extracts.
    GEORGE, Bishop of Alexandria. A Genuine Work.
    • The Life of S. Chrysostome.
    HONORIUS. Genuine Works.
    • Some Letters to Sergius.
    • Nine other Letters.
    SOPHRONIUS of Jerusalem.
    • Genuine Works.
      • A Synodical Letter to Sergius.
      • Four Sermons.
      • The Life of S. Mary the Aegyptian.
    • Works lost.
      • A Synodical Letter to Honorius.
      • A Discourse about S. Cyrus and S. John.
    • A Spurious Work.
      • The Voyages of S. Peter and S. Paul.
    JOANNES MOSCHUS. A Genuine Work.
    • The Spiritual Medow.
    GEORGIUS PISIDES.
    • Genuine Works.
      • A description of the Creation of the World, in Verse.
      • A Poem upon the vanity of Life.
      • Sermons in honour of the Virgin.
    • Works lost.
      • The Life of the Emperor Heraclius.
      • The Persian War.
      • A Panegyrick upon the Martyr Anastasius.
      • A Book intituled, Avarica.
      • Some Poems.
    EUGENIUS, Bishop of Toledo.
    • A Genuine Work.
      • His Poems.
    • Works lost.
      • A Treatise upon the Trinity, in Verse.
      • Another on the same Subject, in Prose.
    APOLLONIUS, a Priest of Novara. A Genuine Work.
    • A Poem upon the ruin of Jerusalem.
    JOHN IV. His Genuine Works.
    • An Apology for Honorius.
    • Two Letters.
    THEODORUS I. A Genuine Work.
    • Two Letters and a Memoir.

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      MARTIN I. A Genuine VVork.
      • Seventeen Letters.
      S. MAXIMUS.
      • Genuine VVorks.
        • His Life and the Acts of his Persecution.
        • Questions upon the Scripture to Thalassius.
        • Seventy Nine Answers to as many Questions.
        • An Exposition of the 59th Psalm.
        • An Ascetick Discourse.
        • 400 Spiritual Maxims of Charity.
        • 200 Theological and OEcumenical Maxims.
        • A Writing to Theo-perapius.
        • 243 Moral Maxims.
        • 25 Dogmatical Treatises.
        • A Conference with Pyrrbus.
        • A Treatise of the Soul.
        • Several Letters.
        • Five Dialogues concerning the Trinity, under the name of Athanasius.
        • His Mystagogy.
        • A Collection of Moral Sentences.
        • A Commentary upon the Work attributed to S. Di∣onysius the Areop.
        • Scholiasts upon S. Gregory Nakienzen.
        • A Calendar.
      • A Spurious VVork.
        • A Resolution of Doubts to the King of Achrida.
      ANASTASIUS, Scholar of S. Ma∣ximus. A Genuine VVork.
      • A Letter to the Monks of Cagliari.
      ANASTASIUS APOCRISI∣ARIUS. A Genuine VVork.
      • A Letter upon the death of S. Maximus.
      THEODOSIUS and THEO∣DORUS. A True VVork.
      • An Historical Work about the Sufferings of Ana∣stasius.
      THEODRUS of Raithu. His Genuine Work.
      • A Treatise of the Incarnation.
      PETER of Laodicea. His Genuine Work.
      • An Explication of the Lord's Prayer.
      THALASSIUS, His Genuine Work.
      • 400 Moral Maxims.
      ISAIAH the Abbot. A Genuine Work.
      • Some Precepts.
      THEOFRIDUS. His Genuine Work.
      • Two Homilies upon Relicks.
      DONATUS. A Genuine Work.
      • Two Rules; one for Monks, and another for Nuns.
      VITALIANUS. His Genuine Work.
      • Six Letters.
      S. ELIGIUS.
      • His Genuine VVork.
        • A Book of Instructions collected by S. Owin in the Life of this Saint.
      • A dubious VVork.
        • Sixteen Homilies which bear his name.
      AGATHO.
      • A Genuine Work.
        • A Letter to the Emperor Constantine.
      • A Spurious Work.
        • A Letter to Ethelred.
      LEO II. His Genuine VVorks.
      • A Letter by which he subscribed to the Determina∣tions of the sixth Council.
      • Four Letters sent into Spain.
      BENEDICT II. A Genuine WORK.
      • A Letter to the Bishops of Spain, about the Sixth Council
      DREPANIUS FLORUS. His genuine WORKS.
      • A version of the 22, 26, 27. Psalms, into Verse.
      • The Song of the three young Men in the Furnace, in Verse.
      • An Hymn to S. Michael, another upon the Paschal Taper and other Poems.
      ILDEFONSUS of Toledo.
      • His genuine VVorks.
        • A Treatise of Ecclesiastical Writers,
        • A Treatise of the perpetual Virginity of Mary.
        • Some Letters.
      • WORKS lost.
        • Of which there is a Catalogue, p. 34.
      • Suppositious WORKS.
        • Another Treatise upon the perpetual Virginity of Mary.
        • Twelve Sermons upon the Purification.

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        TAIO.
        • A Genuine WORK.
          • A Letter to Quiricus.
        • A Manuscript Work, not published.
          • Five Books of Sentences, collected out of S. Grego∣ry's Works.
        LEONTIUS, Bishop of Cypress. A Work lost.
        • His Apology for the Christians.
        MARCULPHUS. A genuine WORK.
        • Some ancient Forms collected by him.
        COSMAS Bishop of Jerusalem,
        • Thirteen Hymns.
        PANTALEO. A WORK lost.
        • Four Sermons.
        JULIAN of Toledo.
        • Genuine WORKS.
          • His Prognosticks, divided into three Books.
          • A Treatise against the Jews.
          • The History of Wamba.
        • WORKS lost.
          • See the Catalogue, P. 37, 38.
        • Supposititious WORKS.
          • Contrarieties of Scriptures.
          • A Commentary upon the Prophet Nabum.
        THEODORUS, Archbishop of Canterbury.
        • A Genuine Work.
          • His Propositions to the Council of Hereford.
        • A Work lost.
          • His penitential.
        • A spurious Work.
          • Several Collections and Extracts of his penitential.
        FRUCTUOSUS. A genuine Work.
        • Two monastick Rules.
        CEOLFRIDUS. A genuine Work.
        • A Letter to Naotan about Easter and the Tonsure of Clerks.
        ADELMUS. A genuine Work.
        • A Book concerning Easter.
        ADAMANNUS. His genuine Works.
        • The History of the Holy Land,
        • The Life of S. Columbanus.
        APONIUS. A genuine Work.
        • A Commentary upon the Canticles.
        CRESCONIUS. A genuine Work.
        • A Collection of Canons in two parts.
        JOHN the Monk. A genuine Work.
        • A Sermon upon the Nativity of the Virgin:
        DEMETRIUS CYZICENUS.
        • A genuine Work.
          • A Memoir of the Original of the Jacobites.
        • Works without Name,
          • A Memoir concerning the Schism of the Armenians.
          • A Memoir about the Nativity of Jesus Christ.
        S. OWEN. A genuine Work.
        • The Life of S. Eligius.
        BEDA.
        • His genuine Works.
          • I. About Arts and Sciences.
            • His Books of Grammar, Arethmetick, Astronomy, Physick, Chronology and Morality.
            • Two Treatises of the Tropes and Figures of the Scripture.
            • His Books of the Lunar Cycles.
            • A Treatise of Times.
          • II. Of History.
            • The History of England, in five Books.
            • A Treatise of the Holy Land.
            • A Treatise of the Hebrew Names.
          • III. Upon the Bible.
            • An Explication of the three first Chapters of Genesis.
            • A Commentary upon the Pentateuch.
            • Four Books of allegorical Explications upon the two first Books of Kings.
            • Some Questions upon these Books.
            • An allegorical Explication of the Books of Esdras and Tobit.
            • Three Books of Commentaries upon the Proverbs, and seven upon the Canticles.
            • An Allegory upon the Ark of the Testimony.
            • A Commentary upon the Gospels of S. Matthew, S. Mark, and S. Luke, the Acts, the Catholick Epistles, and the Revelation.
            • Homilies and Sermons.
            • Several Questions and Treatises upon the Scripture, see p. 87, 88.
            • A Martyrology in Verse, published by Dacherius.
            • Some Letters.
        • Works lost, or in Manuscript only.
          • Commentaries upon the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and S. Paul's Epistles.
          • A Martyrology and Penitential.
        • Supposititious or uncertain VVorks.
          • The Lives of several Saints.
          • A Martyrology.
          • A Penitential.

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          • Collections out of the Fathers.
          • An Exposition of Job.
          • A Commentary upon S. Paul's Epistles.
          • Several Sermons.
        JOHN Patriarch of Constantinople. A genuine Work.
        • A Letter to Pope Constantine.
        AGATHO the Deacon. A genuine Work.
        • A Memoir composed by this Deacon.
        GERMANUS the Patriarch.
        • A genuine Work.
          • A Treatise upon the Burial of our Lord, in Verse, published by Gretzer.
        • Works lost.
          • A Treatise about lawful Retaliation of which Photius gives us some extracts.
          • A Treatise of Synods.
          • Supposititious Works made by another later German.
          • A Book called, Theoria, or Speculation.
          • Four Sermons upon the Virgin.
          • Two Sermons upon the Cross.
          • A Sermon upon the Virgin's Girdle.
        BONIFACE of Mentz.
        • A genuine Work.
          • Several Letters.
        • Dubious or supposititious Works.
          • The Life of S. Livinus.
          • The Statutes of Boniface.
        • A Work last.
          • A Treatise upon the Unity of the Faith.
        GREGORY II. Genuine Works.
        • Fifteen Letters.
        • A Memoir, containing diverse Instructions.
        GREGORY III.
        • A genuine Work.
          • Seven Letters.
        • A spurious Work.
          • A Collection of Canons.
        ZACHARY.
        • A genuine Work.
          • Sixteen Letters.
        • A supposititious Work.
          • The seventeenth and eighteenth Letters.
        ANDREAS CRETENSIS.
        • Genuine Works.
          • Seventeen Panegyricks.
          • An Homily upon the Nativity of the Virgin, and another upon the beheading of S. John.
        • Dubious Works.
          • A Commentary upon the Revelation.
          • Odes and Proses for Festivals.
        ANASTASIUS. A supposititious Work.
        • A Treatise against the Jews.
        EGBERT, Archbishop of York.
        • A Genuine Work.
          • His Penitential.
        • Spurious Works.
          • Several extracts of his Penitential.
          • A Treatise of the Life of Clergymen.
        S. JOHN DAMASCENE.
        • Genuine VVorks.
          • Four Books of the Orthodox Faith.
          • Other dogmatical Treatises, of which we have a Catalogue, p. 102.
          • Three Orations concerning Images.
          • A discourse about Prayer for the Dead.
          • A Treatise upon this Question, Wherein consisteth the Likeness of Man with God?
          • A Treatise of the Last Judgment.
          • A Treatise of Heresies.
          • Parallels.
          • Sermons.
          • Several Hymns.
          • Such of them as are in Greek see p. 103.
        • VVorks lost.
          • See a Catalogue of them p. 104.
        • Supposititious VVorks.
          • Two Letters about the Mass and Consecration.
          • The History of Barlaam.
          • Some Hymns.
        CHRODEGAND, Bishop of Metz. A genuine VVork.
        • A Rule for the Regular Clergy.
        STEVEN II. Genuine VVorks.
        • Six Letters.
        • His Answers to the Questions of the Monks of Bretigny.
        WILLIBALD. A genuine VVork.
        • The Life of S. Boniface of Mentz.
        JOHN, Patriarch of Jerusalem. A dubious VVork.
        • The Life of S. John Damascene.
        GOTTESCHALLCUS. A genuine VVork.
        • The Life of S. Lambert, Bishop of Leige.
        AMBROSIUS AUTPERTUS.
        • Genuine VVorks.
          • A Commentary upon the Revelation, attributed to S. Ambrose, and perhaps his Commentary upon the Psalms and Canticles.

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          • The Book of the Opposition between Virtues and Vices, in S. Austin.
          • The Lives of S. Paldon, Taton and Tason.
        • Works lost.
          • A. Treatise of Concupiscence.
          • Several Homilies.
        PAUL I. A genuine Work.
        • Several Letters inserted in the Caroline Code.
        STEVEN III. A genuine Work.
        • Three Letters.
        ADRIAN I. Genuine Works.
        • Several Letters to the Kings of France, which are in the Caroline Code.
        • Letters about Images, in the Acts of the Council of N••ce, relating to the Caroline Book.
        • A Letter to Tilpin, related by Flodoardus.
        • A Collection of Canons, dedicated to Ingilram Bi∣shop of Metz.
        PAUL of Aquileia.
        • Genuine Works.
          • The History of the Lombards.
          • The History of the Bishops of Metz.
          • The Lives of S. Arnoldus the Martyr, S. Cyprian, S. Benedict, S. Maurus, and S. Scholastica and S. Gregory.
          • Lessons for all the Days of the Year,
          • The Hymn, Ut queant Laxis
        • Works lost.
          • A Commentary upon S. Benedict's Rule.
          • Some Homilies.
        CHARLES the Great. Genuine Works.
        • Several Capitularies made by his Orders.
        • Several Letters written by his Command.
        • The four Caroline Books about Images.
        • A Letter against the Error of Felix Urgelitanus.
        ALCUINUS.
        • Genuine Works.
          • Questions upon Genesis.
          • An Exposition upon the Penitential, and 118 Psalms.
          • A treatise of the Use of the Psalms.
          • A Liturgy.
          • A Letter upon the Canticles.
          • A Commentary upon Ecclesiastes, and the Gospel of S. John.
          • A treatise of the Trinity.
          • A Letter about Time and Eternity.
          • A treatise of the Soul.
          • Seven Books against Felix Orgelitanus.
          • A Letter to Elipandus, and a Reply to his An∣swer, divided into four Books.
          • Several Letters.
          • A Confession of Faith.
          • An Homily upon the Purification.
          • Twenty six Letters.
        • A spurious Work.
          • His Book of Divine Service.
        ETHERIUS. A genuine Work.
        • Two Books against Elipandus.
        PAULINUS.
        • Genuine Works.
          • A small Tract and three other Books against Eli∣pandus.
          • A treatise of wholesome Instructions, among S. Au∣stin's Works.
        • Works lost.
          • A Letter to Heistulphus, of which we have only a Fragment.
          • A Fragment of another Treatise in M. Baluzius's Vol. 1. of Miscell.
        THEODULPHUS, Bishop of Orleans.
        • A Capitulary for the Instruction of the Priests of his Diocess, containing forty six Articles.
        • A treatise about Baptism, to Magnus. Some Poems.
        LEO III. A genuine Work.
        • Thirteen Letters.
        TARASIUS. Genuine Works.
        • An Apology for his Election.
        • Three Letters.
        ELIAS CRETENSIS. A genuine Work.
        • A Commentary upon the Orations of S. Gregory Nazianzen.
        GEORGIUS SYNCELLUS. A genuine Work.
        • His Chronicon.
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