Theodorus
35. Of EDESSA, was first a monk of that city, and then archdeacon (Cave says archbishop) of the Church there. Possin and Cave place him in the twelfth century; and Cave observes that the capture of Edessa by the Saracens prevents our placing him later.
Works
Ex Capitibus Theodori Edesseni L.
Editions
Ex Capitibus Theodori Edesseni L. were given in a Latin version subjoined to Pontanus's edition of the works of Symeon of St. Mamas [SYMEON, No. 16], Ingoldstadt, 1603, and were reprinted in the Bibliotheca Patrum, vol. xii. pars i. p. 861, fol. Cologne, 1618; in the Bibliothecae Patrum, Supplementum of Morel, vol. i. Paris, 1639; and in the Bibliotheca Patrum, vol. xxii. p. 752, fol. Lyon, 1677. But they were given more fully, Capitula CIL, and in the Greek original as well as in a Latin version, in the Thesaurus Asceticus of Possin, p. 345, 4to. Paris, 1684.
Further Information
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 387; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 1101, vol. ii. p. 185.
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