AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.—Christian History.

Church Fathers, B.

Bardesan or Bardesanes.

Spicilegium Syriacum, Containing Remains of Bardesan, Meliton, Ambrose, and Mara bar Serapion. Translated by the Rev. William Cureton. London: Rivingtons, 1855.

ANF: Volume VIII. Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries. Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, The Clementia, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Ages, Decretals, Apocrypha, Gospel of Thomas, Pseudo-Clementine Literature, Recognitions of Clement, Clementine Homilies, Epistle of Peter to James.

Basil.

An exhortation of holye Basilius Magnus to hys younge kynsemen styrynge theym to the studie of humaine lernynge that they might thereby be the more apt to attayne to the knowlege of diuine literature / translated oute of Greke into Englyshe by Wyllyam Berker. 1572. (Oxford Text Archive.)

The Catholic Faith: a Sermon by St. Basil, Translated from the Greek. To Which Is Added a Brief Refutation of Popery, from the Writings of the Fathers. By Hugh Stewart Boyd, Esq. London: C. & J. Rivington, 1825.

The Fathers, Historians, and Writers of the Church. Literally Translated. Being Extracts from the Works of Sulpicius Severus, Eusebius, Acts of the Apostles, Socrates, Theodoret, Sozomen, Minutius Felix, St. Cyprian, Lactantius, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, Tertullian, St. Eucherius, Salivan, St. Bernard, St. Chrysostom, St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory Nazianzen, St. Gregory of Nyssa. Dublin, 1864.
Another copy.

The Ascetic Works of Saint Basil. Translated into English with introduction and notes by W. K. L. Clarke, D.D. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1925.

Saint Basil: Exegetic Homilies. Translated by Sister Agnes Clare Way, C.D.P. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1963.

NPNF: Volume VIII. Basil: Letters and Select Works.

Benedict.

The rule of our most holie father S. Benedict patriarche of monckes is in The second booke of the dialogues of S. Gregorie the Greate the first pope of that name containing the life and miracles of our Holie father S. Benedict. To which is adioined the rule of the same holie patriarche translated into the Englishe tonge by C.F. priest & monke of the same order. 1638. —Translated by J.C. Fursdon. (Oxford Text Archive.)

Bernard.

The Fathers, Historians, and Writers of the Church. Literally Translated. Being Extracts from the Works of Sulpicius Severus, Eusebius, Acts of the Apostles, Socrates, Theodoret, Sozomen, Minutius Felix, St. Cyprian, Lactantius, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, Tertullian, St. Eucherius, Salivan, St. Bernard, St. Chrysostom, St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory Nazianzen, St. Gregory of Nyssa. Dublin, 1864.
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Boethius.

Five Bookes, of Philosophicall Comfort, full of Christian consolation, written a 1000 yeeres since. By Anitius, Manlius, Torquatus, Severinus, Boetius; a Christian Consul of Rome. Newly Translated out of Latine, together with Marginall Notes, explaining the obscurest places. London: Printed by Iohn Windet, for Mathew Lownes. 1609. —The dedication is signed “I .T.” (we might guess that the I is a J). This translation remained in good enough repute to be printed in the Loeb edition three centuries later (see below).
Another copy.

Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. Translated from the Latin, with notes and illustrations, by the Rev. Mr. Philip Ridpath. 1785.

The Theological Tractates, with an English translation by H. F. Stewart and E. K. Rand; The Consolation of Philosophy, with the English Translation of “I.T.” (1609) revised by H. F. Stewart. Loeb edition, 1918.