Patrologiae cursus completus, seu bibliotheca universalis ... (titulus seriei)

A Complete Course of Patrology, or a Universal, Complete, Uniform, Convenient, and Economical Library of All the Holy Fathers, Doctors, and Ecclesiastical Writers, Both Latin and Greek, Who Flourished from the Apostolic Age to the Time of Innocent III (Year 1216) for the Latins and to the Times of Photius (Year 863) for the Greeks:

A chronological reprinting of all the monuments of Catholic tradition that have existed through the first twelve centuries of the Church and more, most diligently corrected according to the most accurate editions compared with one another and with several manuscript codices; continually illustrated with dissertations, commentaries, and variant readings; augmented with all works discovered after the completion of the most ample editions owed to the last three centuries; furnished with particular analytical indexes following each volume or author of any importance; adorned with chapters duly arranged within the text itself, as well as with titles distinguishing the upper margin of each page and signifying the subject matter; amplified with both doubtful and apocryphal works that nevertheless possess some authority in relation to ecclesiastical tradition; enriched with two hundred and more indexes, and especially with two immense and general ones, namely one of Subjects, by consulting which whatever not only such and such a Father, but even each single one of the Fathers without any exception has written on any theme may be seen at a single glance, and the other of Sacred Scripture, from which it is easy for the reader to discover which Fathers and in which places of their works have commented upon each verse of each book of Scripture, from the first of Genesis down to the last of the Apocalypse. A most accurate edition, and easily to be preferred to all others, if one considers the clearness of the type, the quality of the paper, the integrity of the text, the perfection of the correction, both the variety and the number of the reprinted works, the very convenient form of the volumes constantly uniform with itself throughout the whole course of the Patrology, the smallness of the price, and especially this single, methodical, and chronological collection of six hundred fragments and smaller works hitherto scattered here and there, and now for the first time united in our library from works and manuscripts pertaining to all ages, places, languages, and forms.

Greek Series, in which appear the Fathers, Doctors, and Writers of the Greek Church from St Barnabas to Photius, edited by J.-P. Migne, editor of the Universal Library of the Clergy, or of Complete Courses in the Individual Branches of Ecclesiastical Science.

The Patrology, after the likeness of the Church herself, is divided into two parts, namely the one Latin, the other Graeco-Latin; the Latin, now completely produced, stands in its bulk at two hundred and twenty volumes, and is sold for eleven hundred francs. The Greek has been committed to print in a double edition. The first comprises the Greek text with a collateral Latin version, and will perhaps exceed the number of a hundred volumes. The second, however, presents the Latin version only, and will therefore be kept within about fifty volumes. Each Graeco-Latin volume is purchased for eight francs only, and each purely Latin one for five francs; in both cases, however, in order that the buyer may enjoy the benefit of this price, it will be necessary for him to procure the entire collection, whether Greek or Latin; otherwise, varying prices will match the size as well as the difficulties of each volume.

Volume VI of the Greek Patrology.

St Justin, Philosopher and Martyr; Tatian, Disciple of St Justin; Athenagoras the Athenian, Christian Philosopher; St Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch; Hermias.

Printed and sold at the house of J.-P. Migne, Editor, in the street called d'Amboise, near the gate of Paris commonly named d'Enfer, or Petit-Montrouge. 1857.