The “Pearls” of John Zlatoust (1746): Theology and History

The present research represents the history of a volume of the old Romanian book Pearls of Wisdom, written by John Chrysostom, printed in Bucharest, in 1746. The volume studied is part of the patrimony owned by the Orthodox Theology Library, branch of the Lucian Blaga Central University Library, Cluj-Napoca. It also contains a short presentation of the editions published in Romania, establishing the contents of this editionby tracingthe homilies in the Chrysostom volumes of the Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Graecae, the standard edition of the patristic works. The transcription of the notes within the book represents a source of information on the religious and secular history of Oradea in the 18^th and 19^th centuries.

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