Abstract
The earliest literary sources for the study of the Hippolytan corpus stem from the fourth century, harking back to traditions of the third. They include Eusebius of Caesarea, Epiphanius of Salamis, and Jerome. Eusebius and Jerome report that a Hippolytus of the early third century composed a significant dossier of Greek texts; texts, however, which offered no indication of a community of origin. The Hippolytan manuscript group underlying the statements of Eusebius and Jerome are referred to as the non-provenance manuscript tradition. A study of the references of non-provenance, beginning with Eusebius and extending into the medieval period, casts into relief the hypothetical character of the manuscript traditions to be examined in subsequent chapters, traditions that affix specific locations to particular works. The strength of the Eusebian evidence in particular is its early date. It is the most ancient opinion of the church on the Hippolytus question.
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