Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men 70
70 Novatianus the heresiarch PL 23, 681
Novatianus, presbyter of Rome, attempted to usurp the sacerdotal chair occupied by Cornelius, and established the dogma of the Novatians, or as they are called in Greek, the Cathari, by refusing to receive penitent apostates. Novatus, author of this doctrine, was a presbyter of Cyprian. He wrote, On the passover, On the Sabbath, On circumcision, On the priesthood, On prayer,On the food of the Jews, On zeal, On Attalus, and many others, especially, a great volume On the Trinity, a sort of epitome of the work of Tertullian, which many mistakenly ascribe to Cyprian.
911 Novatianus, Romanae urbis presbyter, adversus Cornelium cathedram sacerdotalem conatus invadere, Novatianorum, quod Graece dicitur Καθαρῶν dogma constituit, nolens apostatas suscipere poenitentes. Hujus auctor Novatus, Cypriani presbyter, fuit. Scripsit autem de Pascha, de Sabbato, de Circumcisione, de Sacerdote, de Oratione, de Cibis Judaicis, de Instantia, de Attalo multaque alia, et de Trinitate grande volumen, quasi ἐπιτομὴν operis Tertulliani faciens, quod plerique nescientes, Cypriani existimant.
912 Νωβατιανὸς, τῆς ἐν Ῥώμῃ ἐκκλησίας πρεσβύτερος, κατὰ Κορνηλίου τὸν θρόνον τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς ὑπεισελθεῖν ἐπιχειρήσας, τὸ Νωβατιανῶν, ὅπερ Ἑλληνικῇ διαλέκτῳ καθαρὸν λέγουσι, συνεστήσατο δόγμα, μὴ βουλόμενος τοὺς ἁποστάντας δέξασθαι μετανοοῦντας. Τούτου διδάσκαλος, ἤτοι ἀρχηγὸς Νώβατος, Κυπριανοῦ πρεσβύτερος γέγονε. Καὶ συνεγράψατο περὶ τοῦ Πάσχα, περὶ Σαββάτου, περὶ Περιτομῆς, περὶ Ἱερέως, περὶ Εὐχῆς, περὶ Βρωμάτων Ἰουδαϊκῶν, περὶ τῶν Ἐνεστώτων, περί Ἀττάλου, καὶ ἕτερα πολλὰ, καὶ περὶ τῆς Τριάδος μέγα τεῦχος, ὥσπερ ἐπιτομὴν τοῦ Τερτυλλιανοῦ συγγράμματος ποιῶν, ὅπερ πολλοὶ ἀγνοοῦντες νομίζουσιν εἶναι Κυπριανοῦ.