Epistolae antiquissimae, ac sacris institutionibus plenae
By: Clementis, Anacleti & Euaristi, Ro. Pontt. Dionysij item Areopagitae & Ignatij Antiocheni Episcopi: martyrum Christi. ...
Contributors: Anacletus, Pseudo-; Evaristus, Pseudo-; Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite; Ignatius, Saint, Bishop of Antioch, -approximately 110; Cochlaeus, Johannes, 1479-1552
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1526
Place of publication: Coloniae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Early Christian literature
Other titles: Pseudo-Isidorian decretals. Epistlae Pontifecum Romanorum.
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

Of the twelve letters in this collection, all but Ignatius' Epistola ad Trallianos ex Smyrna (editio princeps 1498) appear to be pseudographical. The five Clementine letters are discussed in J.B. Lightfoot's The Apostolic Fathers, pt. I, v. I, p. 414-419, numbered 5-9. No record was found of genuine extant writings of either Pope Anacletus or Pope Evaristus; these five letters also may be from the Pseudo-Isidorian false decretals.

Edited by Jo. Cochlaeus.

Except for the Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita letter and the Ignatius letter, each letter is preceded by an elenchus capitulorum.

Signatures : a-n⁴, o⁶.

Initials.

Burke Library copy: Bound second with: Vehe, Michael. Assertio sacrorum quorundem axiomatum. Excusum Lipsiae : Apud Michaelem Blum, [1535].
Table of contents: title: Serenissimo Principi ac Domino D. Ferdinando, Hispaniarũ Infanti .. Io. Cochlaeus s. d. ac se supplici uoto cõmendat; title: Clementis epistolae quinque; title: Anacleti epistolae tres; title: Euaristi epistolae duae; title: Dionysij epistola una; title: Ignatij epistola una.