Legends of Eastern Saints: Chiefly from Syriac Sources, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

The existence of the story which is published in the following pages, may have been known in Europe since S. E. and J. S. A ssemani published the catalogue of the Syriac Mss. preserved in the Vatican library (B ibl. apost. vatic, codd. mss. catalogue, III, p. 494). But it was only in 1879 that more details were made known by the appearance of Wustenfeld stranslation of the Alexandrian synaxary (S ynaxarium das ist Heiligen-K alender der Coptischen Christen, II, p. 252 et sequ.). In 18871888 the Coptic text of the story appeared in the Proceedings of the Society for Biblical A rchaeology, X, p. 194 et sequ., together with a translation of another redaction of the text of the Alexandrian synaxary, much longer than the one translated by Wustenfeld (ib., p. 186). This edition and translation were made by A melineau. A new edition and translation of the enlarged Coptic text were published by Giron in his Legendes copies, p. 44 et sequ. The A rabic text of the Alexandrian synaxary has been edited by J. Forget (C orpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium, scriptores arabici, series tertia, tomus I et II). The text of Wustenfeld stranslation is to be found in torn. I, p. Wet sequ., that of A melineau strans lation in torn. I, p. i Afet
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