VITTORE di CAPUA. – Bishop from 541 to 554 (v. his tombstone in CIL, X, 4503).
He wrote, against Vittorio Aquitano, De cyclo paschali, of which only the beginning is preserved in Beda the Venerable, Rat. temp., 51 (C. W. Iones, Bedae opera de temporibus, Cambridge 1943, p. 272 ff.). He perhaps translated a commentary with scholia by Greek Fathers (Polycarp, Origen, Basil, Didymus, Severian; ed. I. B. Pitra, Spicilegium Solesmense, I, Paris 1852, p. 296). The following are attributed to him: Reticulus seu de arca Noe (ibid., p. 287), Capitula de resurrectione Domini, not preserved, and a Gloss on the Epistle to the Romans (v. G. Morin, in Rev. bénéd., 27 [1940], pp. 114 ff). His name is especially associated with the Codex Fuldensis, which St. Boniface brought to Germany. It is a Latin harmony of the Gospels, based on that of Tatian (written ca. 545), and on the other books of the N. T. The Capitulare (lectionary) of the Codex Fuldensis is also attributed to V. (cf. T. Klauser, Das römische Capitulare Evangeliorum, I, Münster in W. 1935, p. xxxi.
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VITTORE, saint, martyr – Fresco by Sodoma in the Sala del Mappamondo (1529) – Siena, Palazzo Pubblico.
no. 9), but his contribution to the lectionary was probably as modest as that to the Latin Diatessaron.