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Document Details : Title: The Collectio Palatina, Marius Mercator, and the So-called Fides de nomine Rufini (CPL 199) Author(s): DORFBAUER, Lukas J. Journal: Augustiniana Volume: 74 Issue: 2 Date: 2024 Pages: 301-325 DOI: 10.2143/AUG.74.2.3293931 Abstract : The present study consists of two parts: The first responds to W. Dunphy’s article in Augustiniana 72 (2022). Against this article, it is demonstrated that our only manuscript witness to the Collectio Palatina was written in Verona in the first half of the ninth century, that it is not mentioned in any book catalogue from Carolingian Lorsch, and that it cannot be demonstrated to have ever formed part of the Lorsch library. Contrary to what Dunphy postulates, the manuscript has not suffered any material loss at its beginning. The Collectio Palatina in its transmitted form is complete. The second part of the present study discusses the structure and the genesis of the Collectio Palatina: I argue that Marius Mercator established a core collection, consisting of his own anti-heretical writings and translations, which he combined with two opening texts, a letter of Pope Anastasius to John of Jerusalem concerning Rufinus of Aquileia and the so-called Fides de nomine Rufini. Mercator furnished this collection with several titles and paratexts in order to present a coherent history of 5th-century heresies, leading from the Origenism of Rufinus of Aquileia to Pelagianism and Nestorianism. In the first half of the sixth century, a later redactor took up Mercator’s collection and created the Collectio Palatina in the form that we have it by adding further writings concerned with Nestorianism. It is also demonstrated that the so-called Fides de nomine Rufini circulated under the name of Jerome in the first half of the fifth century and that it was linked with the name of Rufinus only by Marius Mercator in the course of his editorial work. Mercator’s Rufinus quondam natione Syrus probably is to be identified with Rufinus of Aquileia. |
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