DOCTRINA PATRUM DE INCARNATIONE VERBI. — The greatest and most important dogmatic-philological work (especially Christological) of the ancient Church, containing many quotations from lost works of the Fathers.
Written not before 685. The author is an Anastasius; but it is unknown whether he is Anastasius the Sinaite or Anastasius the Apocrisiarius.
BIBL.: Published by F. Diekamp (D. P. de I. V., Münster 1907). Cf. I. Stiglmayr, Der Verfasser der D. P. de I. V., in Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 18 (1909), p. 140-40.