Corpus of Latin Ecclesiastical Writers, Vol. LXV: Hilary's Treatise on the Mysteries, Fragments, and Hymns

of the entire and catholic faith, which the Catholics confirmed in the Riminian treatise and subscribed with their own hand. Concerning this document, Faber says: what follows is from another codex Deruensis after the exemplar of the Nicene faith. But because this document in no way pertains to our collection, we have clearly omitted it in our edition.

Petrus Coustantius of the Congregation of Saint Maur inverted the order of the fragments again in the edition of the year 1693. For since he thought that it could hardly be read without annoyance and without some risk of straying from the truth in the order in which the collection existed in codex T and in its copy, codex C (see p. XXXVII), Coustantius judged that this arrangement would be best, which would moderate everything in such a way that both the order of times would be preserved and the rationale of the things ordered by Hilary would not be altered. For that reason, he observed as many times as something was missing in the whole work, which the author signified he had appended, or something followed which did not cohere with the preceding, and he therefore divided the work into as many fragments as he had found it disjointed in places or mutilated in some part of itself, and he placed the individual fragments, fifteen in number, according to the order of times. He prefixed to the edition this title: Fragments from the book of Saint Hilary of Poitiers, bishop of the province of Aquitania, in which are all things etc. (cf. p. XX). In order that the order of the monuments, which Faber followed, and the order proposed by Coustantius may be better known, both are compared here. The titles of the individual fragments, which hardly differ in Faber and Coustantius, are almost the same as in codex C.