others) or from Mauretania (so Ernst, Monceaux, d'Alès), and is directed against the view of Cyprian. The little homily "De Aleatoribus" has had quite a literature of its own within the last few years, since it was attributed by Harnack to Pope Victor, and there- fore accounted the earliest Latin ecclesiastical writing. The controversy has at least made it clear that the author was either very early or not orthodox. It has been shown to be improbable that he was very early, and Harnack now admits that the work is by an anti- pope, either Novatianist or Donatist. References to all the brochures and articles on the subject will be found in Ehrhard, in Bardenhewer, and especially in Harnack (Chronol., II, 370 sqq.).
"De Montibus Sina et Sion" is possibly older than
Cyprian's time (see Harnack, and also Turner in
Journal of Theol. Studies, July, 1906). "Ad Vigilium
Episcopum de Judaicâ incredulitate" is by a certain
Celsus, and was once supposed by Harnack and Zahn
to be addressed to the well-known Vigilius of Thapsus,
but Macholz has now convinced Harnack that it dates
from either the persecution of Valerian or that of Max-
entius. The two "Orationes" are of uncertain date and
authorship. The tract "De Singularitate elericorum"
has been attributed by Dom Morin and by Harnack to
the Donatist Bishop Macrobius in the fourth century.
"De duplici Martyrio ad Fortunatum" is found in no
MS., and was apparently written by Erasmus in 1530.
De Paschâ computus was written in the year preceding Easter, 243. All the above spuria are printed
in Hartel's edition of Cyprian. The "Exhortatio de
penitentia" (first printed by Trombelli in 1751) is
placed in the fourth or fifth century by Wunderer,
but in Cyprian's time by Monceaux. Four letters are
also given by Hartel; the first is the original commencement of the "Ad Donatum". The others are
forgeries; the third, according to Mercati, is by a
fourth-century Donatist. The six poems are by one
author, of quite uncertain date. The amusing "Cena
Cypriani" is found in a large number of Cyprianic
MSS. Its date is uncertain; it was re-edited by
Blessed Rhabanus Maurus. On the use of it at pag-
eants in the early Middle Ages, see Mann, "History of
the Popes", II, 289.
The principal editions of the works of St. Cyprian are: Rome, 1471 (the ed. princeps), dedicated to Paul II: reprinted, Venice, 1471, and 1483; Memmingen, c. 1477; Deventer, c. 1477; Paris, 1500; ed. by Rembolt (Paris, 1512); by Erasmus (Basle, 1520 and frequently; the ed. of 1544 was printed at Cologne). A careful critical edition was prepared by Latino Latini, and published by Manutius (Rome, 1563); Morel also went to the MSS. (Paris, 1564); so did Pamèle (Antwerp, 1568), but with less success; Rigault did somewhat better (Paris, 1648, etc.). John Fell, Bishop of Oxford and Dean of Christ Church, published a well-known edition from MSS. in England (Oxford, 1682). The dissertations by Dodwell and the "Annales Cyprianici" by Pearson, who arranged the letters in chronological order, make this edition important, though the text is poor. The edition prepared by Etienne Baluze was brought out after his death by Dom Prudence Maran (Paris, 1726), and has been several times reprinted, especially by Migne (P. L., IV and V). The best edition is that of the Vienna Academy (C. S. E. L., vol. III, in 3 parts, Vienna, 1868-71), edited from the MSS. by Hartel. Since then much work has been done upon the history of the text, and especially on the order of the letters and treatises as witnessing to the genealogy of the codices.
A stichometrical list, probably made in 354, of the Books of the Bible, and of many works of St. Cyprian, was published in 1886 from a MS. then at Cheltenham by MOMMSEN, Zur lat. Stichometrie; Hermes, XXI. 142; ibid. (1890), XXV, 636, on a second MS. at St. Gall. See SANDAY and TURNER in Studia Biblica (Oxford, 1891), III; TURNER in Classical Review (1892, etc.), VI, 205. On Oxford MSS., see WORDSWORTH IR Old Lat. Biblical Texts (Oxford, 1886), II, 123; on Madrid MSS., SCHULZ, Th. Lit Zeitung (1897), p. 179. On other MSS., TURNER in Journal of Th. St., III, 282, 586, 579; RAMSAY, ibid., III. 585, IV. 86. On the significance of the order, CHAPMAN, ibid., IV, 103; VON SODEN, Die cyprianische Briefsammlung (Leipzig. 1901). There are many interesting points in MERCATI, D'alcuni nuovi sussidi per la critica del testo di S. Cipriano (Rome, 1899).
On the life of St. Cyprian: PEARSON, Annales Cyprianici, ed. FELL; Acta SS., 14 Sept.; RETTBERG, Th. Cac. Cyprianus (Gottingen, 1831); FREPPEL, Saint Cyprien et l'Eglise d'Afrique (Paris, 1865, etc.); PETERS, Der hl. Cypr. v. Karth. (Ratisbon, 1877); Freppel and Peters occasionally exaggerate in the Catholic interest. FECHTRUP, Der hl. Cyprian (Munster, 1878); RITSCHL, Cyprian v. K. und die Verfassung der Kirche (Gottingen, 1885); BENSON, Cyprian, his life, his times, his work (Lon- don, 1897). (This is the fullest and best English life; it is full of enthusiasm, but marred by odium theologicum, and quite untrustworthy where controversial points arise, whether against Nonconformists or against Catholics.) MONCEAUX, Hist. litt, de l'Afrique chrét. (Paris, 1902), II, a valuable work. Of the accounts in histories, encyclopedias, and patrologies, the best is that of BARDENHEWER, Gesch. der altkirchl. Lit. (Freiburg, 1903). II. PEARSON's chronological order of the letters is given in HARTFL'S edition. Rectifications are proposed by RITSCHL, De Epistulis Cyprianicis (Halle, 1885), and Cyprian v. Karthago (Göttingen, 1885); by NELKE, Die Chronologie der Korresp. Cypr. (Thorn, 1902); by VON SODEN, op. cit.; by BENSON and MONCEAUX. These views are discussed by BARDENHEWER, loc. cit., and HARNACK, Chronol., II. BONACCORSI, Le lettere di S. Cipriano in Riv. storico-critica delle scienze teol. (Rome. 1905), I, 377; STUFLER, Die Behandlung der Gefallenen zur Zeit der decischen Verfolgung in Zeitschrift für Kathol. Theol., 1907. XXXI, 577; DWIGHT, St. Cyprian and the libelli martyrum in Amer. Cath. Qu. Rev. (1907), XXXII, 478. On the chronology of the baptismal controversy, D'ALES, La question baptismale au temps de Saint-Cyprien in Rev. des Questions Hist. (1907), p. 353.
On Cyprian's Biblical text: CORSSEN, Zur Orientierung über die bisherige Erforschung des Bibeltertes Cyprians in Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der klass. Altertumswiss. (1899); SANDAY in Old Latin Bibl. Texts (1886). II; TURNER in Journ. Theol. St., II, 600, 610; HEIDENREICH, Der ntl. Text bei Cyprian (Bamberg, 1900 MONCEAUX, op. cit.; CORSSEN, Der cypr. Text der Acta Ap. (Berlin, 1892); ZAHN, Forschungen (Erlangen, 1891), IV, 79 (on Cyprian's text of the Apoc.). A new edition (Oxford Univ. Press) is expected of the Testimonia by SANDAY and TURNER. Tentative prolegomena to it by TURNER in Journal Theological Studies (1905), VI, 246, and (1907), IX, 62. The work has been interpolated; see RAMSAY, On early insertions in the third book of St. Cyprian's Text in Journal of Theol. St. (1901), II, 276. Testimonies of the ancients to Cyprian in HARNACK, Gesch. der altchristl. Lit., I; GÖTZ, Gesch. der cyprianischen Literatur bis zu der Zeit der ersten erhaltenen Handschriften (Basle, 1891).
On the Latin of St. Cyprian an excellent essay by WATSON, The Style and Language of St. Cyprian in Stud. Bibl. (Oxford, 1896), IV; BAYARD, Le Latin de Saint Cyprien (Paris, 1902). The letters of Cornelius are in Vulgar Latin (see MERCATI, op. cit.), and so are Epp. viii (anonyinous) and xxi-xxiv (Celerinus, Lucian, Confessors, Caldonius); they have been edited by MIODONSKI, Adversus Alcatores (Erlangen and Leipzig, 1889). On the interpolations in De Unitate Eccl., see HARTEL, Preface; BENSON, pp. 200-21, 547-552; CHAPMAN, Les interpolations dans le traité de Saint Cyprien sur l'unité de l'Eglise in Revue Benedictine (1902), XIX, 246, 357, and (1903), XX, 26; HARNACK in in Journal Theol. St. (1904), p. 432; CHAPMAN, ibid., p. 634, etc. Theol. Litt, Zeitung (1903), no. 9, and in Chronol., II; WATSON On particular points see HARNACK in Texte und Untersuch.. IV, 3. VIII. 2; on the letters of the Roman clergy, HARNACK in Theol. Abhandl. Carl v. Weizsäcker gewidmet (Freiburg, 1896).
On Cyprian's theology much has been written. RITSCHL is fanciful and unsympathetic, BENSON untrustworthy. GÖTZ. Das Christentum Cyprians (Giessen, 1896). On his trust in visions, HARNACK, Cyprian als Enthusiast in Zeitschr. fur ntl. Wiss. (1902), III, ibid. On the baptismal controversy and Cyprian's excommunication, see GRISAR in Zeitschr. fur kath. Theol. (1881). V HOENSBROECH, ibid. (1891), XV; ERNST, ibid., XVII, der Lehre des h. Cypr. (Breslau, 1907); Riou, La genèse de l'unité catholique et la pensée de Cyprien (Paris, 1907). To merely controversial works it is unnecessary to refer. Cyprian and the pseudo-Cyprianic writings, for which see
The above is only a selection from an immense literature on CHEVALIER, Bio-Bibl., and RICHARDSON, Bibliographical Synopis. Good lists in von SODEN, and in HARNACK, Chronol., II; the very full references in BARDENHEWER are conveniently classified.
JOHN CHAPMAN.
XVIII, XIX. PORCHMANN, Die Sichtbarkeit der Kirche nach Cyprus, an island in the Eastern Mediterranean, at the entrance of the Gulf of Alexandretta. It was originally inhabited by Phoenicians and Greeks, and was famous for its temples of Aphrodite. Though long autonomous, in the sixth century B. C. dominion over it was disputed by the Egyptians and the Persians, the latter ruling it till the invasion of Alexander the Great. From the Ptolemies of Egypt it passed to the Romans (59 B. c.). Despite Moslem invasions from the seventh to the tenth century, it remained a part of the Eastern Empire until the end of the twelfth. In 1191 it was conquered by Richard the Lion-Hearted, who gave it to Guy de Lusignan, King of
