Jerome – Letter 18b
| Document: | Letter 18b |
| Incipit: | {Septuaginta} “Et missum est (ad me) unum de seraphim;” Aquila et Theodotio(n) |
| Addressee: | Damasus |
| Date: | c. 379-381 |
| Earliest ms.: | Cologne, Germany: Dom, 35 (Darmst. 2031), between folios 5-50. 8-9th century. (Lambert, I: p. 432) |
| Latin Text: | CSEL 54, pp. 97-103 |
| English Translation: | Mierow, pp. 97-102. |
| Notes: | Pierre Nautin has shown that this letter was probably composed in 387, much later than Damasus’ death, just like Ep. 35 and 36 (see notes there). See ‘Le ‘De Seraphim’ de Jerome et son appendice ‘Ad Damasum’,’ Roma renascens: Beitrage zur Spatantike und Rezeptionsgeschichte. Ilona Opelt von ihren Fremantle, unden und Schulern zum 9.7.1988 in Verehung gewidmet, ed. M. Wissermann (Frankfort, 1988), pp. 257 293
See letters 18a, 19, 20, 35, and 36 for more comments on authenticity. |
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