AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.—Christian History.

Ante-Nicene Christian Library,

in the Internet Archive.

Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of writings of the Fathers down to a.d. 325. Edited by the Rev. Alexander Roberts, D.D., and James Donaldson, LL.D. Edinburgh: T and T Clark, 1867–1872.

“The Ante-Nicene Christian Library is meant to comprise translations into English of all the extant works of the Fathers down to the date of the first General Council held at Nice in a.d. 325. The sole provisional exception is that of the more bulky writings of Origen. It is intended at present only to embrace in the scheme the Contra Celsum and the De Principiis of that voluminous author; but the whole of his works will be included should the undertaking prove successful.” —Introduction to the first volume.

As far as we know, the undertaking was never successful enough to include any more Origen.

☛We have a page of the same collection at Google Books, which also functions as a museum of our ideas of good Web design about fifteen years ago.

I. The Apostolic Fathers.

II. Justin Martyr and Athenagoras.

III. Tatian, Theophilus, and the Clementine Recognitions.

IV. Clement of Alexandria, Vol. I.

V. Irenaeus, Vol. I.

VI. Hippolytus, Bishop of Rome. Vol. I.

VII. Tertullianus Against Marcion.

VIII. The Writings of Cyprian.

IX. Irenaeus, Vol. II.—Hippolytus, Vol. II.—Fragments of the Third Century.

X. The Writings of Origen. [De Principiis, Contra Celsum book I.]

XI. The Writings of Tertullian, Vol. I.

XII. Clement of Alexandria, Vol. II.

XIII. The Writings of Novatian, Minucius Felix, etc. [Includes Seventh Council of Carthage Concerning the Baptism of Heretics.]

XIV. The Writings of Methodius, etc. [Includes Alexander of Lycopolis and Peter of Alexandria.]

XV. The Writings of Tertullian, Vol. II.

XVI. Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, and Revelations.

XVII. The Clementine Homilies.—The Apostolical Constitutions.

XVIII. The Writings of Tertullian, Vol. III. With the extant works of Victorinus and Commodianus.

XIX. The Seven Books of Arnobius Adversus Gentes.

XX. The Writings of Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius of Alexandria, and Archelaus.

XXI. The Works of Lactantius, Vol. I.

XXII. The Works of Lactantius, Vol. II.
Another copy.

XXIII. Origen Contra Celsum. Books II–VIII.

XXIV. Early Liturgies and Other Documents.