I.
sources
.
Augustin’s
Works.
S. Aurelii Augustini
Hipponensis episcopi
Opera…Post Lovaniensium
theologorum recensionem
[which
appeared at Antwerp in 1577 in 11 vols.],
castigatus
[referring to tomus primus, etc.]
denuo ad MSS. codd.
Gallicanos
, etc.
Opera et studio monachorum ordinis S.
Benedicti e
congregatione
S. Mauri
[Fr. Delfau,
Th. Blampin, P. Coustant, and Cl. Guesnié]. Paris, 1679-1700, 11
tom. in 8 fol. vols. The same edition reprinted, with additions, at
Antwerp, 1700-1703, 12 parts in 9 fol.; and at Venice, 1729-’34,
in 11 tom. in 8 fol. (this edition is not to be confounded with
another Venice edition of 1756-’69 in 18 vols. 4to, which is full
of printing errors); also at Bassano, 1807, in 18 vols.; by
Gaume fratres
, Paris, 1836-’39, in 11 tom. in 22 parts (a
very elegant edition); and lastly by
J. P. Migne
,
Petit-Montrouge, 1841-’49, in 12 tom. (“Patrol. Lat.” tom.
xxxii.-xlvii.). Migne’s edition gives, in a supplementary volume
(tom. xii.), the valuable
Notitia literaria de vita, scriptis et
editionibus Aug.
from
Schönemann’s
“Bibliotheca historico-literaria Patrum Lat.” vol. ii. Lips.
1794, the
Vindiciæ Augustinianæ
of Cardinal
Noris (Norisius
), and the writings of Augustin
first published by Fontanini and Angelo Mai. So far the most
complete and convenient edition.
But a thoroughly reliable critical edition of
Augustin is still a desideratum and will be issued before long by a
number of scholars under the direction of the Imperial Academy of
Vienna in the “Corpus Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum
Latinorum.”
On the controversies relating to the merits of the
Bened. edition, which was sharply criticized by Richard Simon, and
the Jesuits, but is still the best and defended by the
Benedictines, see the supplementary volume of Migne, xxi. p. 40
sqq., and
Thuillier
:
Histoire de la
nouvelle éd. de S. Aug. par les PP. Bénédictins
, Par.
1736.
The first printed edition of Augustin appeared at
Basle, 1489-’95; another, in 1509, in 11 vols.; then the edition
of Erasmus published by Frobenius, Bas. 1528-’29, in 10 vols.,
fol.; the
Editio Lovaniensis
, of sixteen divines of Louvain,
Antw. 1577, in 11 vols. and often reprinted at Paris, Geneva, and
Cologne.
Several works of Augustin have been often separately
edited, especially the
Confessions
and the
City of
God
. Compare a full list of the editions down to 1794 in
Schönemann’s
Bibliotheca
, vol.
ii. p. 73 sqq.; for later editions see
Brunet
,
Manuel du libraire
, Paris 1860, tom. I. vol.
557-567. Since then
William Bright
(Prof.
of Ecclesiast. Hist. at Oxford) has published the Latin text of
Select Anti-Pelagian Treatises of St. Aug. and the Acts of the
Second Council of Orange
. Oxford (Clarendon Press) 1880. With a
valuable Introduction of 68 pages.
English translations of select works of Augustin are
found in the “Oxford Library of the Fathers,” ed. by Drs.
Pusey, Keble, and Newman, viz.: The
Confessions
, vol. I.,
1838, 4th ed., 1853;
Sermons on the N. T.,
vol. xvi., 1844,
and vol. xx. 1845;
Short Treatises
, vol. xxii., 1847;
Exposition of the Psalms
, vols. xxiv., xxv., xxx., xxxii.,
xxxvii., xxxix., 1847, 1849, 1850, 1853, 1854;
Homilies on
John
, vols. xxvi. and xxix., 1848 and 1849. Another translation
by Marcus Dods and others, Edinb. (T. & T. Clark), 1871-’76,
15 vols., containing the
City of God
, the
Anti-Donatist
, the
Anti-Pelagian
, the
Anti-Manichæan
writings,
Letters
,
On the
Trinity
,
On Christian Doctrine
, the
Enchiridion
,
On Catechising
,
On Faith
and the Creed
,
Commentaries on
the
Sermon on the Mount
, and
the
Harmony of the Gospels
, Lectures on
John
, and
Confessions
. There are several separate translations and
editions of the Confessions: the first by Sir Tobias Matthews (a
Roman Catholic) 1624, said, by Dr. Pusey, to be very inaccurate
and subservient to
Romanism; a second by Rev. W. Watts, D.D., 1631, 1650; a third by
Abr. Woodhead (only the first 9 books). Dr. Pusey, in the first
vol. of the Oxford Library of the Fathers, 1838 (new ed. 1883),
republished the translation of Watts, with improvements and
explanatory notes, mostly borrowed from Dubois’s Latin ed. Dr.
Shedd’s edition, Andover, 1860, is a reprint of Watts (as
republished in Boston in 1843), preceded by a thoughtful
introduction, pp. v.-xxxvi
. H. de Romestin
translated minor doctrinal tracts in
Saint Augustin
. Oxford
1885.
German translations of select writings of Aug. in
the Kempten
Bibliothek der Kirchenväter
, 1871-79, 8 vols.
There are also separate translations and editions of the
Confessions
(by Silbert, 5th ed., Vienna, 1861; by Kautz,
Arnsberg, 1840; by Gröninger, 4th ed., Münster, 1859; by Wilden,
Schaffhausen, 1865; by Rapp, 7th ed., Gotha, 1878), of the
Enchiridion
, the
Meditations
, and the
City of God
(
Die Stadt Gottes
, by Silbert, Vienna, 1827, 2 vols.).
French translations:
Les Confessions
, by
Dubois, Paris, 1688, 1715, 1758, 1776; and by Janet, Paris, 1857; a
new translation with a preface by Abbé de la Mennais, Paris, 1822,
2 vols.; another by L. Moreau, Paris, 1854.
La Cité de
Dieu
, by Emile Saisset, Paris, 1855, with introd. and notes, 4
vols.; older translations by Raoul de Præsles, Abbeville, 1486;
Savetier, Par. 1531; P. Lombert, Par. 1675, and 1701; Abbé Goujet,
Par. 1736 and 1764, reprinted at Bourges 1818; L. Moreau, with the
Latin text, Par. 1846, 3 vols.
Les
Soliloques
, by
Pélissier, Paris, 1853.
Les Lettres
, by Poujoulat, Paris,
1858, 4 vols.
Le Manuel
, by d’Avenel, Rennes, 1861.