Tripartite history

Title(s):
  • Tripartite history
  • Historiae ecclesiasticae ex Socrate, Sozomeno et Theodorito in unum collectae et nuper de Graeco in Latinum translatae libri numero duodecim
    (Historiae ecclesiasticae ex Socrate, Sozomeno et Theodorito in unum collectae et nuper de Graeco in Latinum translatae libri numero duodecim, Ecclesiastical histories gathered into one book from Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret, translated from the Greek into Latin in twelve books.)
  • Historia tripartita
    (Historia tripartita, Tripartite history)
Author:
Period covered:
324-439
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Ecclesiastical history
  • Form (compilation)
Remarks:
Cassiodorus' Tripartite history combines excerpts taken from the three ecclesiastical histories of Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret. Cassiodorus' model  is Theodorus Lector's ecclesiastical history, sometimes also called Tripartite history, but he does not systematically follow his model and has direct recourse to the three sources. The titel Historia tripartita is found for the first time in the official report of the synod held at Paris in 825 (Laistner 1948: 52-53).
Edition - Translation:
  • R. Hanslik, W. Jacob (1952) Cassiodori-Epiphanii Historia ecclesiastica tripartita: Historiae ecclesiasticae ex Socrate Sozomeno et Theodorito in unum collectae et nuper de Graeco in Latinum translatae libri numero duodecim (Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 71). Vienna.
Fragments:
Bibliography:
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  • R. Hanslik, W. Jacob (1954) Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der sogenannten Historia tripartita des Epiphanius-Cassiodor (Texte und Untersuchungen, 59). Berlin.
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