Pseudo-Origen is the name conventionally given to anonymous authors whose works are misattributed to
Origen
Origen of Alexandria (), also known as Origen Adamantius, was an Early Christianity, early Christian scholar, Asceticism#Christianity, ascetic, and Christian theology, theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Early cent ...
and by extension to the works themselves.
These include:
*''
De recta in Deum fide'', a Greek dialogue of the late 3rd or early 4th century
*''
Planctus Origenis'', also called ''Lamentum'' or ''Paenitentia'', a purported retraction of some of his views regarded as heretical, supposedly translated from Greek into Latin by
Jerome of Stridon
*''
Commentarius in Iob'', a Latin
commentary on Job from
Vandal Africa
*''De Maria Magdalena'', a Latin homily on
John 20:11–18
*''Vitae Mediatrix'', 6th-century Latin treatise on the title
Mediatrix
*
Chronicle of Pseudo-Origen, a lost chronicle used as a source for the ''
Collectio Hibernensis''
*Six homilies on
Luke and
Matthew attributed to Origen in the
homiliary compiled by
Paul the Deacon
Paul the Deacon ( 720s 13 April in 796, 797, 798, or 799 AD), also known as ''Paulus Diaconus'', ''Warnefridus'', ''Barnefridus'', or ''Winfridus'', and sometimes suffixed ''Cassinensis'' (''i.e.'' "of Monte Cassino"), was a Benedictine monk, sc ...
for
Charlemagne
Charlemagne ( ; 2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was List of Frankish kings, King of the Franks from 768, List of kings of the Lombards, King of the Lombards from 774, and Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian ...
are usually regarded as misattributed,
[Zachary Guiliano, ''The Homiliary of Paul the Deacon: Religious and Cultural Reform in Carolingian Europe'' (Brepols, 2021), p. 109.] including:
**''Homilia VI in Matthaeum''
[Anne J. Duggan, "The Salem FitzStephen: Heidelberg Universitäts-Bibliothek Cod. Salem ix. 30", ''Thomas Becket: Friends, Networks, Texts and Cult'' (Variorum Reprints, 2007), pp. 51–86.]
**''Homilia VII in Matthaeum'', elsewhere
misattributed to Bede[
]
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