To Quirinus: Three Books of Testimonies
Ad Quirinum (Testimoniorum libri tres)
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About this work
- Author
- Cyprian of Carthage
- Attribution
- authentic · Accepted as Cyprian's (books 1–3; a fourth book in some manuscripts is not his and is not in Hartel's text).
- Older English translation
- Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5 (1886) (public domain, at CCEL; for comparison: our translation is made from the original first and checked against it afterwards) · ANF 5 prints this as Treatise 12, Three Books of Testimonies against the Jews.
- Date
- ca. 248–250 (book 3 perhaps later) (approximate) · Books 1–2 are usually dated to the beginning of Cyprian's episcopate; book 3 has its own preface and may have been added later.
- Written at
- Carthage, Africa Proconsularis (North Africa) (probable)
- Addressed to
- Quirinus
- Language
- Latin
- Genre
- treatise
- Reference system
- book.chapter (Hartel, CSEL 3.1); 0 = the preface to books 1–2, 3.0 = the preface to book 3
- SBL abbreviation
- Test.
- Text from
- Wilhelm von Hartel, ed., S. Thasci Caecili Cypriani Opera omnia, Pars 1, CSEL 3.1 (Vienna: Gerold, 1868), 35–184 (Printed edition in the public domain; digital text CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Critical editions
- R. Weber, ed., Ad Quirinum, in Sancti Cypriani Episcopi Opera, Pars 1, CCSL 3 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1972) (cited, not reproduced)
- CTS URN
urn:cts:latinLit:stoa0104a.stoa014