The Turin Fragments of Tyconius' Commentary on Revelation

Tyconius's Commentary on the Apocalypse is here restored in a critical text by the late Francesco Lo Bue.

Lo-Bue (Author)

9780521108249, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 April 2009

220 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.28 kg

Tyconius Afer, a Donatist of the latter half of the fourth century, was an influential figure in the struggle between the Donatist and Catholic Churches in Africa and writer of at least two important exegetical works: the Book of Rules, published in 1894 in the third volume Texts and Studies by F. C. Burkitt and the Commentary on the Apocalypse here restored in a critical text by the late Francesco Lo Bue. Tyconius' Commentary is generally thought to survive only in the work of other writers but it is Dr Lo Bue, using critical techniques, who can be said to have restored something like the original text and, what is more, to have proved the ascription to Tyconius beyond reasonable doubt.

Preface
Introduction: Part I. Codex T: 1. Description of the Manuscript
2. Designation of the Manuscript
3. Edition of the Manuscript
4. The Value of the Manuscript as evidence
Part II. The Palaeography of T: 1. Preliminary considerations
2. Palaeographical characteristics
Part III. Codex T and the Original Commentary of Tyconius: 1. T and the Tyconian passages in other Commentaries
2. T and the Tyconian recension of the Apocalypse
3. Contribution of T to the reconstruction of Tyconius' Commentary
Bibliography
TEXT
Sigla
Index of scriptual passages.

Subject Areas: Religion: general [HRA]