Note by the American
Editor.
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Frequent references to
Gallandi
, whose
collection I have been unable to inspect, the cost of the best edition
being about two hundred dollars, makes it worth while to insert here,
from a London book-catalogue, the following useful memoranda:
“
Gallandii, Cong. Orat
. (Andr.) Bibliotheca Veterum
Patrum Antiquorumque Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Græco-Latina;
Opera silicet eorundum minora ac rariora usque ad xiii. Sæculum
complexa, quorum clxxx. et amplius nec in Veteri Parisiensi, neque in
postrema Lugdunensi edits sunt. Venet., 1765.
“The contents are given in Darling, col.
298–306. Of the three hundred and eighty-nine writers
enumerated, it appears that nearly two hundred are not in the earlier
collections.
“The contents of these great collections are, not
the works of the Great Fathers, of whose writings separate editions
have been published, but the works, often extensive and important, of
those numerous Ecclesiastical writers whose works go, with the Greater
Fathers referred to, to make up the sum of Church Patristic
literature.”