Une traduction inédite de Rufin d’Aquilée

This article introduces the discovery of a manuscript of the full text of Rufinus of Aquileia’s Enchiridion. While the first part of this work composed in the early 400s is well known (the translation of the Sentences of Sextus), the second part mentioned by Rufinus in his preface was considered to be lost. The manuscript Praha, Archiv Prazského Hradu, Knihovna Metropolitní Kapituly, B XX (315) (s. XIV-XV) contains both parts of the work and shows that the second part corresponds to the translation of a Greek collection of philosophical maxims in alphabetical order known as the ‘Pythagorean sentences’, composed between the first and the third century. The Latin text is related to, but independent from, the two main Greek witnesses (Π and D). The article demonstrates the attribution to Rufinus, mainly through external criteria. It will be followed by an edition and analysis of the discovered text, currently in preparation

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