PATROLOGY

COMPLETE COURSE

OR A UNIVERSAL, INTEGRAL, UNIFORM, CONVENIENT, AND ECONOMICAL LIBRARY

OF ALL HOLY FATHERS, DOCTORS, AND ECCLESIASTICAL WRITERS,

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

CHRONOLOGICAL RE-EDITING

OF ALL THE MONUMENTS OF CATHOLIC TRADITION WHICH EXISTED DURING THE FIRST FIFTEEN
CENTURIES OF THE CHURCH,
ACCORDING TO THE MOST ACCURATE EDITIONS COLLATED AMONG THEMSELVES AND WITH VARIOUS MANUSCRIPTS, MOST
DILIGENTLY CORRECTED; CONTINUOUSLY ILLUSTRATED WITH DISSERTATIONS, COMMENTARIES, AND VARIOUS READINGS;
AUGMENTED BY ALL WORKS PUBLISHED AFTER MORE THAN SIX HUNDRED YEARS, AND BY THOSE REVEALED TO BE OWED TO THE CENTURIES; ADORNED WITH ANALYTICAL INDICES, FOLLOWING EVERY VOLUME OR AUTHOR OF ANY SIGNIFICANCE, WITH THE DISPOSITION OF MATERIAL CLEARLY ARRANGED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PATROLOGY,
WITH TITLES DISTINGUISHING THE UPPER MARGIN OF EACH PAGE AND DEMONSTRATING THE SUBJECT MATTER; AMPLIFIED WITH WORKS THAT ARE DOUBTFUL, AS WELL AS APOCRYPHAL, BUT POSSESSING SOME AUTHORITY IN REGARD TO ECCLESIASTICAL TRADITION;
ENRICHED WITH MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED INDICES OF AUTHORS AS WELL AS WORKS, ALPHABETICAL, CHRONOLOGICAL,
STATISTICAL, SYNTHETIC, AND ANALOGICAL, UPON EVERY POINT OF RELIGION, DOGMATIC, MORAL,
LITURGICAL, CANONICAL, DISCIPLINARY, HISTORICAL, AND EVERYTHING ELSE WITHOUT ANY EXCEPTION; BUT ESPECIALLY WITH TWO IMMENSE AND GENERAL INDICES, NAMELY, ONE OF MATTERS, BY CONSULTING WHICH, WHATEVER NOT ONLY SUCH OR SUCH A FATHER, BUT ALSO EVERYONE WHO HAS WRITTEN ON A THEME, MAY BE SEEN AT A SINGLE GLANCE; THE OTHER OF SACRED SCRIPTURE, FROM WHICH THE READER OF ANY WORK MAY VIEW THE VERSES OF THE BOOKS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE AT A SINGLE GLANCE, FROM THE FIRST OF GENESIS TO THE LAST OF THE APOCALYPSE.
THE MOST ACCURATE EDITION, EASILY PREFERABLE TO ALL OTHERS, IF ONE CONSIDERS THE CLARITY OF THE CHARACTERS, THE QUALITY OF THE PAPER, THE INTEGRITY OF THE TEXT, THE PERFECTION OF THE CORRECTION, THE VARIETY AND NUMBER OF RE-EDITED WORKS, THE FORM OF THE VOLUMES WHICH IS VERY CONVENIENT AND CONSTANTLY SIMILAR THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PATROLOGY, THE MODERATION OF THE PRICE, AND THE METHODICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT OF SIX HUNDRED FRAGMENTS AND SHORT WORKS HITHERTO SCATTERED HERE AND THERE, BUT FIRST BROUGHT TOGETHER IN OUR LIBRARY FROM WORKS AND MANUSCRIPTS PERTAINING TO ALL AGES, PLACES, LANGUAGES, AND FORMS.

LATIN SERIES,

IN WHICH THE FATHERS, DOCTORS, AND WRITERS OF THE LATIN CHURCH APPEAR,
FROM TERTULLIAN TO INNOCENT III.

EDITED BY J.-P. MIGNE,

OF THE UNIVERSAL CLERGY LIBRARY,
OR
EDITOR OF THE COMPLETE COURSES ON EACH BRANCH OF ECCLESIASTICAL SCIENCE.