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I want to thank all for the help received on the above
question: still searching for a definitive answer and
realizing there may not be one.  In any case, many
thanks for all the pointers and bibliography.

Larry Swain

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> Have you tried:
> 
> Bernhard Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana
> manuscripta, 4 vols., Instrumenta Patristica 4
> (Steenbrugge, 1969-72). 281.1 IN7 CLX. Inventory of
> surviving manuscripts of the works of St. Jerome and
> of works falsely attributed to Jerome. The table of
> initia in Vol. IVB includes all pseudo-Hieronymian
> works.  ?
> 
> Tom Izbicki
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> I couldn't find a chronology in Brown's *Vir
> Trilinguis*, but I did  
> find some possibly helpful references.  The section
> "Jerome and the  
> biblical canon" is on pp. 62-71.
> 
> For his view of the canon in general:
> He cites H.H. Howorth, "The Influence of St. Jerome
> on the Canon of  
> the Western Church," *Journal of Theological
> Studies* 10 (1908):  
> 481-96; 11 (1909): 321-47; 13 (1911): 1-13, but
> suggests that his  
> chronology is "open to serious doubt."  He cites
> P.W. Skehan, "St.  
> Jerome and the Canon of the Holy Scriptures," *A
> Monument to St.  
> Jerome,* edited by F.X. Murphy (New York, 1952),
> 259-87.
> 
> Brown gives a date of 395 for Letter 53, definitely
> after the  
> *Prologus Galeatus* (I don't know where he got the
> date).  Here's  
> what he says about the letter: "The list is
> interesting in that it  
> includes all the books in the Hebrew canon, but the
> order in which  
> they are recorded has been influenced by the LXX
> canon in two ways.   
> First the minor prophets are placed before the other
> prophets, and  
> second, Daniel is placed at the end of the prophets,
> ostensibly as  
> one of them.  This is a good example of Jerome's
> ambivalent attitude  
> to the canon; the scholar is influenced by the
> original Hebrew canon,  
> but the churchman cannot stray too far from the
> revered tradition of  
> the LXX canon." (68)
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> --Jonathan Hall
> 
> On 25 May 2006, at 4:25 PM, Larry Swain wrote:
> 
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of
> medieval religion and  
> > culture
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> > I'm attempting to figure out a question on a
> sequence
> > in Jerome's works.  It is usually stated that
> Jerome
> > finished his translation of Samuel and Kings from
> > "Hebrew" into Latin in 390 and published them with
> the
> > Prologus Galeatus.  In the Galeatus Jerome gives
> an
> > order of the biblical books that at least in the
> > Christian Old Testament mirrors the rabbinic order
> of
> > the Hebrew Bible.  However, in 394 in Letter 53 to
> > Paulinus of Nola, in which Jerome urges P to study
> the
> > Scripture and gives an order and brief summary of
> each
> > book of the Bible--but the order in this letter is
> > rather different than the order in Galeatus. Given
> > Jerome's tendency after his move to Bethlehem to
> > champion the rabbinic order and content of the
> canon,
> > I'm wondering how to explain the discrepancy.  Are
> the
> > usual dates incorrect?  Was Galeatus actually
> > published with Samuel-Kings or did he add that
> later?
> > Sources?
> >
> > Many thanks!
> >
> > Larry Swain
> >
> >
> 
>
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