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232 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
In the preceding pages those quotations and references are omitted
which fall under the following heads ;
(i) All testimonies later than the close of the ninth century. To
this rule exceptions are made in the case of the three last, which are given
for their intrinsic interest as showing the tradition of Oriental Churches.
References to later testimonies will be found scattered up and down
these volumes ; e.g. for the English writers who quote the Anglo-Latin
Version see above, i. p. 77.
(2) All the Acts of Martyrdom of S. Ignatius. These will be
found in their proper place, 11. p. 363 sq.
(3) All Martyrologies and Calendars, with the exception of the
very early Syriac MartjTology (see above, p. 150), whose great antiquity
claimed for it a special
mention. Notices will be found in 11.
p. 418 sq of several of the Martyrologies and Calendars thus omitted.
(4) All Service Books. Thus the Greek Men^ea (Dec. 20) give a
considerable space to Ignatius. Some notices relating to the Menaea will
be found in different parts of these volumes, e.g.
i.
p. 222, 11. pp. 202,
207, 223, 422). For the rest, it may be said generally that the prayers,
invocations, etc, in the Meneea are founded on the Acts of Martyrdom
(including the incorporated Epistle to the Romans) and the panegyric
of S. Chrysostom.
(5) All secondary Latin authorities. The notices in such ^^Titers
are made up of (i) the notice in the Viri lUustres of Jerome (see above,
p. 155); (2) the version of Eusebius H. E. iii. 36 by Rufinus (see
above, p. 168); and sometimes also (3) the Bollandist Latin Acts of
Ignatius (see 11. p. 371). Thus the passage in Gildas {de Excid. Britann.
iii. 7, p. 373, ed. Migne) is taken from Rufinus; the account in Freculph
of Lexovium {Chron.
ii. 2. 11, Magfi. Bibl. Vet. Pair. ix. i. p. 509) is
copied almost word for word from :
Jerome while the narratives in Ado
{Libell. de Festiv. Apost. p. 191, Migne) and in the Martyrology of the
so-called Bede {Op. v. p. 11 12, Migne) are derived chiefly from the
Bollandist Acts, with a sUght intermingling of Jerome.
A most important testimony to the Ignatian letters is found in the
different versions, recensions, and spurious imitations.
These however
have been considered in the previous chapter, and therefore all mention
of them is omitted here.