Pseudo-Origen

Pseudo-Origen is the name conventionally given to anonymous authors whose works are misattributed to Origen and by extension to the works themselves.

Pseudo-Origine, Homilia VI in Matthaeum, Latin copy from 1179

These include:

• De recta in Deum fide, a Greek dialogue of the late 3rd or early 4th century^[1]
• 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^[2]
• Commentarius in Iob, a Latin commentary on Job from Vandal Africa^[3]
• De Maria Magdalena, a Latin homily on John 20:11–18^[4]
• Vitae Mediatrix, 6th-century Latin treatise on the title Mediatrix^[5]
• Chronicle of Pseudo-Origen, a lost chronicle used as a source for the Collectio Hibernensis^[6]
• Six homilies on Luke and Matthew attributed to Origen in the homiliary compiled by Paul the Deacon for Charlemagne are usually regarded as misattributed,^[7][8] including:
  • Homilia VI in Matthaeum^[9]
  • Homilia VII in Matthaeum, elsewhere misattributed to Bede^[9]