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. A principal writing identified as "Pseudo Jerome" is the ninth-century writing the ''Epistle of Pseudo-Jerome to Paula and Eustochium'', a sermon on the

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. Other works are also pseudonymously attributed to Jerome, including a ''Handbook on the Apocalypse'', a kind of preacher's manual containing glosses (brief 1-2 sentence explanations) of passages from the

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. This work was likely composed by an Irish bishop writing from continental

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in the late 7th century.

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