PATROLOGY

COMPLETE COURSE,

OR UNIVERSAL LIBRARY, INTEGRATED, UNIFORM, CONVENIENT, ECONOMICAL,

OF ALL HOLY FATHERS, DOCTORS, AND ECCLESIASTICAL WRITERS,

WHETHER LATIN OR GREEK,
WHO FLOURISHED FROM THE APOSTOLIC AGE TO THE AGE OF INNOCENT III (YEAR 1216) FOR THE LATINS,
AND TO THE TIMES OF THE COUNCIL OF FLORENCE (YEAR 1439) FOR THE GREEKS:

CHRONOLOGICAL RECENSION

OF ALL THE MONUMENTS OF CATHOLIC TRADITION WHICH HAVE EXISTED DURING THE FIRST FIFTEEN

CENTURIES OF THE CHURCH,

ACCORDING TO THE MOST ACCURATE EDITIONS, COMPARED WITH ONE ANOTHER AND WITH NUMEROUS MANUSCRIPT CODICES, EXTREMELY DILIGENTLY CORRECTED; CONTINUOUSLY ILLUSTRATED BY DISSERTATIONS, COMMENTARIES, AND VARIOUS READINGS; AUGMENTED BY ALL WORKS DETECTED AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE MOST AMPLE EDITIONS PRODUCED IN THE THREE MOST RECENT CENTURIES; EQUIPPED WITH THE MOST ELABORATE, ANALYTICAL INDICES, DONATED TO INDIVIDUAL VOLUMES OR TO THOSE AGES OF SOME MOMENT WHICH FOLLOW; DULY ARRANGED WITH CHAPTERS WITHIN THE TEXT ITSELF, AND ALSO ADORNED WITH TITLES DISTINGUISHING THE UPPER MARGIN OF EACH PAGE AND SIGNIFYING THE SUBJECT MATTER BELOW; EXPANDED WITH MANY WORKS, BOTH APOCRYPHAL AND THOSE POSSESSING SOME AUTHORITY IN RELATION TO ECCLESIASTICAL TRADITION.

ENRICHED WITH TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY INDICES IN EVERY RESPECT, NAMELY ALPHABETICAL, CHRONOLOGICAL, ANALYTICAL, ANALOGICAL, STATISTICAL, SYNTHETICAL, ETC., AND WITH ALL THE HOLY FATHERS BROUGHT TO LIGHT FROM WORKS AND MANUSCRIPTS PUBLISHED OR UNPUBLISHED IN LIBRARIES ACROSS THE WORLD, EXTENDING TO ALL AGES, PLACES, AND LANGUAGES, AND IF PERHAPS THEY EXIST, OPEN EVEN TO THE LAZY AND THE UNSKILLED; NOT ONLY SUCH OR SUCH FATHERS, SO THAT BY CONSULTING THIS, WHATEVER ANYONE HAS WRITTEN ON ANY THEME MAY BE VIEWED AT A GLANCE; BUT ALSO ANOTHER OF SACRED SCRIPTURE, FROM WHICH IT MAY BE OBVIOUS TO THE READER WHICH FATHERS, AND IN WHICH PLACES OF THEIR WORKS, HAVE COMMENTED ON EACH FRAGMENT OF SMALL WORKS, AND WHICH FATHERS, AND IN WHICH PLACES OF THEIR WORKS, HAVE COMMENTED ON EACH OF THE INDIVIDUAL BOOKS FROM THE FIRST OF GENESIS TO THE LAST OF THE APOCALYPSE:

MOST ACCURATE EDITION, EXHIBITING TO THE OTHERS NOT ONLY THE CLARITY OF THE CHARACTERS, BUT THE PERFECTION OF THE CORRECTION OF THE TEXT, THE VARIETY OF THE WORKS, AND THE QUALITY, INTEGRITY, AND ENTIRETY OF THE LATIN PATROLOGY SERIES, EXHIBITING THE FATHERS FROM INNOCENT III TO THE COUNCIL OF TRENT; HOW CONVENIENT IT IS IN ITS ENTIRETY, THE NUMBER OF VOLUMES CONSTANTLY SIMILAR THROUGHOUT THE COURSE, METHODICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL. THE MEAGERNESS OF THE PRICE OF SIX HUNDRED, ESPECIALLY IN THE TWO IMMENSE [SECTIONS], AND WHICH FATHERS AND IN WHICH PLACES OF THEIR WORKS [ARE FOUND], BUT IN OUR LIBRARY FROM WORKS AND MSS. EXTENDING TO ALL AGES, PLACES, LANGUAGES, AND FROM INNUMERABLE WORKS COMPOSING CATHOLIC TRADITION, MIRACULOUSLY MAKING ONE WORK.

LATIN SERIES,

IN WHICH THE FATHERS, DOCTORS, AND WRITERS OF THE LATIN CHURCH APPEAR

FROM TERTULLIAN TO INNOCENT III.

AND EDITOR OF THE COMPLETE COURSES ON THE INDIVIDUAL BRANCHES OF ECCLESIASTICAL SCIENCE.

THE PATROLOGY, AFTER THE LIKENESS OF THE CHURCH ITSELF, IS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS, THE ONE LATIN, THE OTHER GRECO-LATIN, BOTH PARTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ENTIRELY WRITTEN. THE LATIN, STANDING BY ITS OWN BULK IN 222 VOLUMES, IS SOLD FOR 1110 FRANCS: THE GREEK HAS BEEN COMMITTED TO TYPE IN A DOUBLE EDITION. THE FORMER EXHIBITS THE GREEK TEXT ALONG WITH A LATIN VERSION ONLY, AND DOES NOT EXCEED 104 VOLUMES IN 109 TOMES, FOR THE FIRST SERIES. THE LATTER, HOWEVER, EXHIBITS THE LATIN VERSION ONLY, AND IS THEREFORE CONTAINED WITHIN 55 VOLUMES. THE SECOND GRECO-LATIN SERIES REACHES ONLY 58 VOLUMES; WHILE THIS MERELY LATIN [EDITION] IS COMPLETED IN 29 VOLUMES. EACH VOLUME IS SOLD FOR 9 FRANCS, OR THE MERELY LATIN ONE FOR 5 FRANCS: BUT IN BOTH CASES, SO THAT THE BUYER MAY ENJOY THE BENEFIT OF THIS PRICE, IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO PURCHASE THE ENTIRE COLLECTION, WHETHER LATIN OR GREEK. OTHERWISE, THE VARYING PRICES WILL EQUAL THE AMPLITUDE AND DIFFICULTY OF EACH VOLUME. THEREFORE, IF ANY WISH TO PERCEIVE [THESE] SEPARATELY, THE GRECO-LATIN COLLECTION OR THE SAME TRANSLATED FROM GREEK INTO LATIN, YOU WILL PAY FOR EACH VOLUME 9 [FRANCS]... The Latin text here contains repetitive marketing boilerplate regarding pricing structures and collection requirements. ...THE CONDITIONS WHICH WILL APPLY TO THE LATIN PATROLOGY SERIES EXHIBITING THE FATHERS FROM INNOCENT III TO THE COUNCIL OF TRENT. THE PATROLOGY WHICH [IS IN] MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARIES OF THE WORLD, WHICH HAVE SUFFERED DAMAGE, AND ALSO THE ORIENTAL PATROLOGY, WILL BE SUBJECT TO SPECIAL CONDITIONS, AND WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN THEIR TIME, IF THE TIME TO COMMIT THEM TO TYPE IS NOT LACKING TO US.

TOMUS XXIX OF THE LATIN PATROLOGY.

ST. EUSEBIUS HIERONYMUS (JEROME).