Primary source · Latin
The Sermons
Augustine of Hippo · AD 391–430, taken down by stenographers
What this text is
Preaching as conversation: hundreds of sermons caught live by notarii — on the feasts of the martyrs (Vincent, Crispina, the Scillitans), the Psalms sung against the Donatists, and the sack of Rome.
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Public-domain translations
R. G. MacMullen (NPNF, 1888)
Wherever the name of Christ is honoured, Vincent is honoured too. He conquered in words, he conquered in pains; he conquered in confession, he conquered in tribulation; he conquered burned, he conquered drowned. (Sermon 274, on the deacon's feast.)
Manuscript witnesses
Medieval homiliaries + the Mainz codex (Dolbeau finds)
9th c. onward (Mainz: 15th c.)Over 500 authentic sermons; twenty-six long-lost ones recovered at Mainz in 1990.
Patrologia Latina, vol. 38 (Migne)
1845Standard pre-critical text of the corpus.
Provenance
The basilicas of Hippo and Carthage, AD 391–430 — taken down by stenographers
Editions & scholarship
Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.
- Sermons (WSA III/1–11)Edmund Hill, 1990–1997The complete modern English translation.
- Vingt-six sermons au peuple d'AfriqueFrançois Dolbeau, 1996The edition of the Mainz discoveries.