1A list of the Old Testament books counted canonical, with line counts, tied to the twenty-four elders of Revelation.
2A list of the New Testament books with line counts, and the compiler's note on how he counted them.
3A list of the works and letters of Cyprian with their line counts.
About this work
Author
Anonymous
Attribution
authentic · Anonymous list of the canonical books and of Cyprian's writings, with stichometric counts, found in the Phillipps manuscript at Cheltenham (now Berlin, Phillipps 1743) and printed by Mommsen in 1886.
Standing
A local council, not counted here as received by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions as a whole. Anonymous list of the books read in the church of its time.
Date
ca. 360 (approximate) · The manuscript's note on the years since Adam names the consulship of Valentinian and Valens (365); Sanday inclines to about 359 for the list; the place is probably North Africa (Carthage).
Written at
North Africa (probable) (approximate)
Language
Latin
Genre
canon/council
Reference system
1 Old Testament list, 2 New Testament list with the note on the stichometry, 3 list of Cyprian's writings (as divided in Sanday's reprint of Mommsen's text)
SBL abbreviation
Canon Mommsen.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPL 1 (not yet checked)
Text from
William Sanday, "The Cheltenham List of the Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament and of the Writings of Cyprian," in Studia Biblica et Ecclesiastica 3 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1891), 217–325 (the list on 222–225, reprinted from Theodor Mommsen, Hermes 21 [1886]) (Printed edition in the public domain)
Critical editions
Theodor Mommsen, "Zur lateinischen Stichometrie," Hermes 21 (1886): 142–56 (cited, not reproduced)