Sketch of the Life and Works of Saint Basil the Great

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Homilies and Orations were published in Italian in 1711 by Gio. Maria Lucchini. Omelie Scelte, translated by A. M. Ricci, were published in Florence in 1732.

Many important extracts are translated into French in the Historie Generale des Auteurs Sacres of the Benedictine Remy Ceillier (Paris, 1737).

E. Fialon, in his Et. Hist. (1869) has translated the Eexj3meron; and in 1889 the Panegyrique due Martyr Gordius was published in French by J. Genouille.

A complete account of the bibliography of St. Basil is given in the Notitia ex Bibliotheca Fabricii (Ed. Harles, tom. ix. 1804), in Migne's ed. vol. i., Prolegomena p. ccxli.

In 1888 a translation of the De Spiritu Sancto, by G. Lewis, was included in the Christian Classic Series.

Of all the smaller works a great popularity, as far as popularity can be gauged by the number of editions and translations, has belonged to the Advice to the Young and the Homily on the Forty Martyrs.

The mss. collated by the Ben. Edd. for their edition of the De Spiritu Sancto are five entitled Regii, and a sixth known as Colbertinus, now in the national library at Paris. The Ben. Regius Secundus (2293) is described by Omont (Inventaire Sommaire des mss. Grecs) as of the Xth c., the Colbertinus (4529) and the Regius Tertius(2893) as of the XI^th c., and the Regius Primus (2286), Regius Quartus (2896), Regius Quintus(3430) as of the XIV^th c.

For his edition, Mr. C. F. H. Johnston also collated or had collated 22,509 Add. mss., Xth c., in the British Museum; codd. Misc. xxxvii., XI^th c., in the Bodleian Library at Oxford; Cod. Theol. 142, XII^th c., in the Imperial Library at Vienna; Cod. Theol. 18, XIV^th c., also at Vienna; Cod. xxiii, XI^th c., in the Library of the Holy Synod at Moscow; 500 (Reg. 1824, 3) G, XI^th c., at Paris; Cod. lviii., Xth c., at St. Mark's, Venice; Cod. lxvi., XII^th c., also at St. Mark's, Venice; Codd. Regin. Suaecor. 35, XIV^th c., in the Vatican at Rome.

For the Hexaemeron the Ben. Edd. used eight mss. styled Regii, and numbered respectively 1824, 2286 (originally in the collection of Henry II. at Fontainebleau, the Regius Primus of the enumeration for the De Spiritu Sancto, but the Secundus for that of the Hexaemeron), 2287 (1DEG), 2287 (2DEG), 2349, 2892, 2896 (the Regius Quartus of the De Spiritu Sancto), and 2989, two mss. entitled Colbertinus, 3069 and 4721, two Coistiniani, 229, IX^th c., and 235; and a ms. in the Bodleian, "a doctissimo viro Joanne Wolf collatus."

The sources of the Ben. Ed. of the Letters were Coislinianus 237, XI^th c., a Codex Harlaeanus of the Xth or XI^th c., and a Codex Medicaeus, Codex Regius 2293, Codex Regius 2897, Codex Regius 2896, Codex Regius 2502, Codex Regius 1824, Codex Regius 1906, and Codex Regius 1908.

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