Document: Against Helvidius, on the Perpetual Virginity of the Virgin Mary
Latin Title: De perpetua uirginitate beatae Mariae adversus Heluidium
Reference: CPL 609
Incipit: Nuper rogatus a fratribus
Date: Late 383 (Kelly p. 106, Hritzu, p. xi)
Earliest ms.: Verona, Italy: Biblioteca Capitolare, XVII (15), f. 248-281v. 6th century. (Lambert, II: p. 376)
Latin Text: Migne, ed., De Virginitate Beatae Mariae, PL vol 23, pp. 183-206.
English Translation: J. Hritzu, “On the Perpetual Virginity of the Blessed Mary Against Helvidius” in Saint Jerome, Dogmatic and Polemical Works (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1965), pp. 3-43.Also, W.H. Fremantle, “The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary,” in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York 1912), pp. 334-46.
Bibliography: Rocca, Giancarlo. L’Adversus Helvidium di san Girolamo nel contesto della letteratura ascetico-mariana del secolo IV (Bern: P. Lang, 1998).

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