LEGENDS OF EASTERN SAINTS  CHIEFLY FROM SYRIAC SOURCES

The existence of the story which is published in the following pages, may have been known in Europe since S. E. and J. S. Assemani published the catalogue of the Syriac Mss. preserved in the Vatican library (Bibl. apost. vatic. codd. mss. catalogus, III, p. 494). But it was only in 1879 that more details were made known by the appearance of Wüstenfeld's translation of the Alexandrian synaxary (Synaxarium das ist Heiligen-Kalender der Coptischen Christen, II, p. 252 et sequ.).
In 1887/1888 the Coptic text of the story appeared in the Proceedings of the Society for Biblical Archaeology, 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 Wüstenfeld (ib., p. 186). This edition and translation were made by Amélineau.
A new edition and translation of the enlarged Coptic text were published by Giron in his Légendes coptes, p. 44 et sequ.