Pseudo-Origen is the name conventionally given to anonymous authors whose works are misattributed to Origen and by extension to the works themselves.
These include:
- De recta in Deum fide, a Greek dialogue of the late 3rd or early 4th century
- 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
- Commentarius in Iob, a Latin commentary on Job from Vandal Africa
- De Maria Magdalena, a Latin homily on John 20:11âÂÂ18
- Vitae Mediatrix, 6th-century Latin treatise on the title Mediatrix
- Chronicle of Pseudo-Origen, a lost chronicle used as a source for the Collectio Hibernensis
- Six homilies on Luke and Matthew attributed to Origen in the homiliary compiled by Paul the Deacon for Charlemagne are usually regarded as misattributed, including:
- Homilia VI in Matthaeum
- Homilia VII in Matthaeum, elsewhere misattributed to Bede
- Maria stabat ad monumentum, a Latin sermon, possibly by , reportedly translated into German by Nikolaus Kempf
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