| Document: | Letter 18b |
| Reference: | |
| Incipit: | {Septuaginta} “Et missum est (ad me) unum de seraphim;” Aquila et Theodotio(n) |
| Addressee: | Damasus |
| Date: | c. 379-381 |
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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 Jérôme et son appendice 'Ad
Damasum',' Roma renascens: Beitráge zur Spátantike und
Rezeptionsgeschichte. Ilona Opelt von ihren Fremantle, unden und Schülern 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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