Rufinus, Tyrannius (c.345–411) Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3 ed.)
..., Tyrannius or Turranius ( c. 345–411 ), monk , historian , and translator . Born near Aquileia , he went to Egypt c. 373 and for some years studied at Alexandria under Didymus the Blind . In 381 he was in Jerusalem . He had a part in founding a double monastery on the Mount of Olives . He returned to Italy in 397. Though he was also an original writer, Rufinus is important mainly as a translator of Greek theological works into Latin at a time when knowledge of Greek was declining in the W. His free rendering of Origen 's De Principiis...
Rufinus, Tyrannius (345–411) Reference library
Robert Evans
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
..., Tyrannius (or Turranius ) ( c. 345–411 ) Monk , historian , and translator . Born near Aquileia in N. Italy, he went to a school in Rome, where he became friends with Jerome . In the early 370s, he went to Egypt; here he met Melania the Elder and visited the monks of the desert. He also studied for several years in Alexandria under Didymus the Blind , and was deeply influenced by his Origenism . In 380/1 he was in Jerusalem. With Melania he founded a double monastery on the Mount of Olives . After the outbreak of the controversy about...
Printer of Rufinus
Rufinus
Rufinus, Printer of Reference library
The Oxford Companion to the Book
..., Printer of ( fl . 1478–9 ) First printer in Oxford. The Expositio in Symbolum Apostolorum by Tyrannius Rufinus Aquileiensis has the *colophon dated Oxford, 17 December 1468 , but since two other small books, dated ‘ 1479 ’ were printed in Oxford in the same type, a date in 1478 is generally assumed. Bishop James Goldwell may have commissioned the Expositio from the anonymous printer. The type originated from Cologne, but has no connection with the Cologne types of the second Oxford printer, *Rood . Lotte Hellinga BMC 11 A. C. de la Mare ...
Rufinus (fl. 399–401) Reference library
Frances Young
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
... ( fl. 399–401 ?) Commonly called the Syrian, author of a Liber de Fide which is described in the only known surviving MS (St Petersburg, Public Library MS Q. v. 1. 6) as the work of Rufinus, priest of the province of Palestine. This work, formerly ascribed to Tyrannius Rufinus , is marked by hostility to Arianism , to Origen , and to the doctrine of original sin ; these features have led to the identification of the author with the Rufinus natione Syrus , said by Marius Mercator to have corrupted the theology of Pelagius ( see Pelagianism )...
Rufinus of Aquileia Reference library
Barry Baldwin
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
... of Aquileia , more fully Tyrannius Rufinus , Latin writer and translator; born at Concordia near Aquileia ca. 345 , died Messina 410. After studies in Rome, where he met Jerome , Rufinus went to Egypt ca. 372 , thence to Jerusalem, where a decade later he founded a monastery on the Mount of Olives with Melania the Elder . In the interim, he had studied at Alexandria, where he was captivated by the Origenism of Didymos the Blind . Returning to Aquileia in 397 , he devoted his last years largely to Latin translations of the Greek fathers. The...
Pseudo-Clementine Literature Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls
...Peter ). While the Homilies (with their prefaced writings: Letter of Peter, Adjuration , and Letter of Clement ) survive in the original Greek, the Greek Recognitions have not yet been found. They are preserved primarily through a Latin translation ( c.406 ce ) by Tyrannius Rufinus and through a Syriac translation (pre- 373 ce ) of Recognitions 1–4.1. Attention to Christological remarks allows the Homilies to be dated to about 325 ce and fixes the Recognitions within the following twenty years. The Basic Writing was composed around 220 ...
