Pseudo-Basil is the designation used by scholars for any anonymous author of a text falsely or erroneously attributed to Basil of Caesarea. Pseudo-Basilian works are usually known by Latin titles. They are often misattributed only in translation. They include:
- Ad Caesarienses apologia de secessu, a letter actually by Evagrius Ponticus[1]
- Ad Chilonem discipulum suum[1]
- Admonitio ad filium spiritualem, a Latin text and a partial Old English translation[1]
- Admonitio ad iuniores[1]
- Canones, an Arabic text and some Coptic fragments[1]
- Constitutiones asceticae[1]
- Contra Eunomium 4–5 (books 1–3 are authentic)[1]
- De consolatione in adversis[1]
- De reliquis Dionysii, the sequel to an authentic letter to Ambrose of Milan[1]
- De spiritu[1]
- De virginitate ad Letoium, an Old Church Slavonic translation from Greek, actually by Basil of Ancyra[1]
- De vita in Christo, a Coptic translation from Greek, also misattributed to Athanasius[1]
- Dialogus IV de sancta Trinitate, an Armenian translation from Greek and Syriac fragments, also misattributed to Athanasius[1]
- Doctrina, quoted in the Georgian Ethika of Euthymius the Athonite[1]
- Epitimia[1]
- Epitimia diversorum sanctorum de refectorio[1]
- Erotapokriseis Basilii et Gregorii, an Arabic translation from Greek of an erotapokriseis sometimes also misattributed to John Chrysostom[1]
- Liturgia sancti Basilii alexandrina, a Greek liturgy of the Alexandrian rite, also known in Arabic, both Bohairic and Sahidic Coptic and Ethiopic versions[1]
- Transitus de dormitione Deiparae, a Georgian translation from Greek[1]
Numerous apocryphal Basilian letters exist: to Bishop Eusebius of Samosata; to Eustathius, archiatrus and son of Oribasius; to Bishop Innocent of Tortona; to the Emperor Julian the Apostate; to Libanius; "to a lapsed monk" (ad monachum lapsum); to the Emperor Theodosius I; to the monk Urbicius on continence; and "to a widow" (ad viduam).[1]
In addition, some passages in the Rule of Saint Basil are inauthentic.[2][3]
References
- ^ Fedwick 1981, pp. xxix–xxxi, 633–635 and 713–715.
- ^ Basil and Apokatastasis new findings. pp. 132, 133, 134.
- ^ "Anna M. Silvas The Rule of St. Basil in Latin and English A Revised Critical Edition"
Bibliography
- Fedwick, Paul Jonathan (ed.) (1981). Basil of Caesarea, Christian, Humanist, Ascetic: A Sixteen-Hundredth Anniversary Symposium. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.