Legends of Eastern Saints: Chiefly from Syriac Sources; Edited, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

The legend of A rchelides, which is published in the following pages, has hitherto been known by extracts only. It is mentioned for the first time in A sseman s Bibliotheca Orientals, III, 286 who, wrongly, identifies A rchelides with John of Rome although there is a certain likeness between the two legends ). Wiistenfeld has translated the A rabic text of the synaxary of the Coptic church 2). In 1897 Erman edited some Coptic fragments of the legend together with the A rabic text of Wiistenfeld stranslation 3). The Coptic text is a poetic version, which seems to have been destined for public recitation. Sachau has given a summary of our Ms. Bin his catalogue of the Syriac Mss. at Berlin 4). The present book contains the Syriac, A rabic and A ethiopic versions of the legend. I have altered the readings of the Mss. only where the copyist seems to have made a blunder. So I have retained the orthography 1) The legend of John of Rome or John bar Malke is found in Bedjan s Acta Martyrum, I, 344 365. 2) Synaxarium das ist Heiligen-kalender dcr coptischen Christen p. 237 ct scqu. 3) A bhandlungen der Berliner Academic der Wissenschaften 1897. 4) Verzeichniss der syrischen Handschriften II, 743 et scqu.
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