Juvencus

Juvencus is the author of at least two Christian epics in hexameters. The one Ordo sacramentorum is lost. Only the work entitled evangeliorum libri quattuor ( " Four books of the Gospels " ) is obtained. This epic is a Gospel Harmony in a total of about 2400 hexameters, which is mainly based on the Gospel of Matthew, also in portions of the Gospels of Luke and John. Juvencus is next Commodian ( 270 ) became the first known Christian poet. The evangeliorum libri quattuor seem to have quickly gained wide acceptance and even more followers in the Christian academic world. Especially in the Carolingian period, the work was often rezipiert, such as the numerous manuscripts show from the 9th century. Were first printed in the evangeliorum libri to 1490th

Works

• Historia evangelica heroicis versibus conscripta. Jakob von Breda, Deventer 1497 ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf ).