The text of the complete works of Chrysostom published by J.-P. Migne was a reprint of the Benedictine edition by Montfaucon of a century earlier. Rather surprisingly, it does not contain all the material included in the 8-volume edition produced a century before that by Sir Henry Savile.
I learn from Quasten’s Patrology 3 and also from the Clavis Patrum Graecorum 2 that some of the sermons of Severian of Gabala are only contained in Savile’s edition.
A kind reader has sent me PDF’s of Savile. It’s rather daunting! The lack of a Latin title is a clue; inside there is solely Greek. There is an index at the end of volume 8, but it too is all in Greek. In short, it is a rather tough proposition to find your way around!
Fortunately the CPG gives page numbers for the sermons in question.
I’ve been working on transferring data and software to my new PC since Saturday, and I’m getting there. But it is a wearisome business. Windows 7 hasn’t attacked me yet, but give it time.
I’ve had another chunk of the Greek of Eusebius’ Quaestiones back from proof-reading. I’ve also had a chunk of the Coptic back in English, although not in any useful format — the translator seems to have terrible trouble doing simple things with a computer, which is very, very wearing. On a more positive note the translator of the Arabic bits is on course to complete those.
The translation with text of Origen’s Homilies on Ezechiel is progressing very well, and there is very little more to do. The translator has worked very hard on this, and it shows. It’s likely to be ready before the Eusebius, at current progress. If it does appear first, I might send it out first, contrary to my original intention.
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