Patrologiae cursus completus, series Latina, tomus VI, tituli

Of Patrology

A Complete Course

or

a universal library, entire, uniform, convenient, economical,

of all the holy Fathers, Doctors and ecclesiastical writers

who flourished from the apostolic age right up to the times of Innocent III,

a chronological reprinting of all the monuments of Catholic tradition that have existed through the first twelve centuries of the Church,

most diligently corrected according to the most accurate editions, collated with one another and with a number of manuscript codices;

illustrated throughout with dissertations, commentaries and variant readings;

enlarged with all the works discovered after the completion of the most ample editions which we owe to the three most recent centuries;

furnished with particular analytical indexes following each of the volumes, or each author of any importance;

adorned with chapters duly arranged within the text itself, and also with titles marking the upper margin of the individual pages and indicating the subject matter;

amplified with works both doubtful and apocryphal, which nevertheless carry some authority in relation to ecclesiastical tradition;

enriched with two general indexes: namely, one of subjects, by consulting which whatever each of the Fathers wrote on any theme whatever may be seen at a single glance; the other of Sacred Scripture, from which it is easy for the reader to find out which Fathers, and in which passages of their works, have commented on the individual texts of the individual books of Scripture.

A most accurate edition, easily to be preferred to all others, if one weighs: the clarity 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 works reprinted, the form of the volumes, most convenient and constantly uniform throughout the whole course of the work, the smallness of the price, and above all this collection, single, methodical and chronological, of six hundred fragments and minor works hitherto scattered here and there, but now for the first time gathered together in our library from works belonging to all ages, places, languages and forms.

First Series,

in which appear the Fathers, Doctors and writers of the Latin Church from Tertullian to Gregory the Great.

Edited by J.-P. Migne, editor of the Complete Courses in each branch of ecclesiastical science.

Volume VI of the Patrology.

Of the holy popes Marcellinus, Marcellus, Eusebius and Melchiades; of an Anonymous author, of Celsus, the single volume.

Of Lactantius, the first volume.

At Paris, Sirou printed it,

in the street called d'Amboise, near the Barrière d'Enfer, or Petit-Montrouge. 1844.

Of Lucius Caecilius Firmianus

Lactantius

the complete works,

printed after the most excellent edition of Lenglet-Dufresnoy; enlarged with both the emendations and the critical disquisitions of Bünemann, O. F. Fritzche and N. Le Nourry:

the newest edition,

which can stand in the place of all the others, collated with more than eighty manuscript codices and forty printed editions, and illustrated with fuller notes.

There precede

of St Marcellinus, Pope, St Marcellus, Pope, St Eusebius, Pope, St Melchiades, Pope, of an Anonymous author and of Celsus, all the extant

fragments.

Of these, the single volume;

of Lactantius, the first volume.

At Paris

Sirou printed it,

in the street called d'Amboise, near the Barrière d'Enfer,

or Petit-Montrouge. 1844.