CATHOLIC TRADITION. FIFTH CENTURY. YEAR 450. CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS AND WORKS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME LXXIX.
Those marked with an asterisk now appear for the first time among the works of St. Nilus.
ST. NILUS, ABBOT.
Four books of Letters, from the edition of Leo Allatius, collated with the revision of Petrus Possinus. col. 58 The Narrations of St. Nilus concerning the slaughter of the monks on Mount Sinai, from the edition of Petrus Possinus. 83 Oration against Albianus, from the same edition. 695 Minor works of St. Nilus, first published by Joseph Maria Suaresius, Bishop of Vaison. Book on Monastic Asceticism. 719 Peristeria, or Treatise on the cultivating of virtues and the shunning of vices. 811 Treatise on voluntary poverty. 967 On the excellence of monks. 1062 Treatise to Eulogios the monk. 1094 On the vices which are opposed to the virtues. 1139 On the eight spirits of wickedness. 1146 On prayer. 1166 On evil thoughts. 1199 Instruction to monks. 1235 Sayings. 1239 * Parænetic Chapters (From the *Auctarium* of Fronto Ducæus). 1250 Sermon on that passage of the Gospel: "But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a scrip," etc. 1263
SPURIA.
Moral treatise. 1279 On the temptation of the monk Pachon. 1283 The Manual of Epictetus. 1286 The same author’s chronological book on the life of St. Nilus. 1318
SUPPLEMENT TO THE GENUINE WRITINGS OF ST. NILUS.
Joseph Maria Suaresius’s Dissertation on the works of St. Nilus. 1367 * On the eight vicious thoughts, from the edition of J.-B. Cotelerius. 1435 Fragments of sermons and homilies from Photius. 1491
APPENDIX.
* Admonitory chapters to monks by Abbot Hyperechius, from the edition of Franciscus Combefisius (a). 1471
(a) These, through the negligence of the printers, do not occupy their proper place.
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