Pseudo-Augustine

thumb|Start of the Sermo de symbolo contra Iudaeos, paganos et Arianos in the early 14th-century manuscript B.II.20 of the Durham Cathedral Library Pseudo-Augustine is the name given by scholars to the authors, collectively, of works falsely attributed to Augustine of Hippo. Augustine himself in his Retractiones lists many of his works, while his disciple Possidius tried to provide a complete list in his Indiculus. Despite this check, false attributions to Augustine abound.

==Examples== The Sermones ad fratres in eremo is a collection of pseudo-Augustinian sermons. It is by far the most prominent. It was printed along with Augustine's other sermons at Basel in 1494 by Johann Amerbach. Their authenticity was rejected by the Maurists in the 17th century. Once thought to be the work of Geoffroy Babion in the 12th century, it is now accepted that the Sermones were composed by an anonymous Belgian in the 14th century. They were forged with an apparent intention of strengthening the mendicant Order of Saint Augustine's historically dubious claims to have been established at Hippo by Augustine himself.