Subsidia hagiographica

XVI-296 p., 1 map (46 x 40 cm).

LIV-626 p.

XX-200 p.

128 p. Two early witnesses, Basil of Caesarea and the Syriac and Hieronymian martyrologies mention the martyr Athenogenos, chorepiscopus of the town of Pedachthoe (today Bedohtun), a victim of the Diocletian persecution. Hitherto there was only the short epic Passion BHG 197, published in 1987. With this work we now have the publication, together with a translation and commentary, of another version of the Passion BHG 197b, a text of an entirely different historical quality and in large measure ancient. Particularly worthy of mention are the three long interrogations of the bishop, of the lector (and martyr) Ariston, and of the cantor (and renegade) Severianos. Also noteworthy are the names of other martyrs (including Peter I of Sebasteia) and a number of picturesque details of rural Christian life. In addition, the epic Passion, accompanied this time by a translation, is republished here on the basis of some ten manuscripts.

197 p. This work contains six previously unpublished texts of Byzantine hagiography: 1. the Eulogy of St.  Horeozele by Constantine Acropolites (BHG 2180); 2. the Passion of Philetairos and Eubiotos (BHG 1515a); 3. the Legend of three brother-martyrs of Lentini, Alphius, Philadelphus, and Cyrinus (BHG 62a); 4. a Greek Passion of St. Cecilia (BHG 283c); 5. the Martyrdom of Arethas and of his Himyarite companions (BHG166z); 6. the Life of St. Athanasia of Aegina , abbess of the IX th Century (BHG 180).

XXXVII-77 p. At the invitation of the Schlumberger Foundation, H. Delehaye gave these three papers at the Collège de France in 1935. Although addressed to a wider public, these papers contain the experience acquired by the author in his 45 years as a Bollandist, and constitute, as it were, his intellectual testament.  

L-529 p.

221 p. A selection of 14 hitherto unpublished Greek texts accompanied by French translations. In addition to the Lives of St Theophylactus of Nicomedia and of St Thomais of Lesbos , for example, there are a great number of Passions of martyrs. These texts are of interest above all for the history of literature and of the diffusion of legends.

961 p. This Supplement, which is nearly as voluminous as the BHL(Subsidia hagiographica 6) contains some two hundred “new” saints, i.e. those who are not found in the original edition, to which it adds some 2650 entries. To avoid changing the original numbering, these supplementary entries are denoted by the addition of letters (a, b, c, etc.) to the numbers, at times even of double letters (za, zb, zc, etc.), an effective even if inelegant measure.

365 p. This jewel of the Greek Patriarchate of Alexandria was fortunately found in 1939 in the Walters Art Gallery of Baltimore. It is a collection of 25 texts, which dates from the reign of Michael IV (1034-1041). These are published here with translations and brief commentaries. The saints treated in the document are all of the month of January, from St. Sylvester, whose feast is celebrated by the Greeks on New Year’s Day, to St. Eusebia-Xene of Mylassa, whose feast is celebrated on the 24 th of January.

248 p. A study of 28 kings who actually reigned. The first two chapters of the work present the life of the saint (martyr or confessor) and the process of canonization. The two following chapters attempt to answer a double question: what was expected of the holy king and what were the functions that he fulfilled in his kingdom. The last two chapters, by examining the liturgical texts, attempt to identify and analyze the principal aspects of the cults of these saints. Les saints rois form a diptych with Les saintes reines du Moyen Âge (Subsidia Hagiographica, 76 ).

124 p., 9 pl. The publication together with translation and commentary of 26 fragments either already known or previously unidentified of the Coptic version of the Preaching and of the Martyrdom of St. Thomas the Apostle, the version from which the today better known Arabic and Ethiopians versions probably derive. The Contribution codicologique au Corpus copte des AAA, by E.  Lucchesi , attempts to situate the fragments of six codices of the White Monastery among the Acts of the other Apostles of which they were originally a part.

206 p. The very numerous manuscripts of the National Library of Athens which are of interest for Byzantine hagiography are carefully analyzed as is customary with the Bollandists. The references to the Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca of 1957, to its Auctarium of 1969 or to its Novum Auctarium of 1984 enable these texts to be accurately identified. Hundreds of little known or even hitherto unknown documents are easy to find by means of the index.

961 p. This “New Supplement” to the Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca (= Subsidia hagiographica 8) contains all the information collected since 1957 regarding the editions or the re-editions of the Lives of the Saints in Greek, as well as unpublished documents found in Byzantine manuscripts.

308 p.

XXXVIII-499 and 563 p.

308 p.

XV-208 p.

564 p.

LXXVI-596 and 412 p.

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VIII-292 p.

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CXXXIII-140 p.

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XXXVI-172 and 314 p. in 2 vols.

240 p.

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XII-368 p.

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XIX-207 p.

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IX-230 p.

X-480 p.

448 and VII-373 p.

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XII-247 p.

LII-436 p.

336 and 310 p. in 2 vols

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262-328 p.

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VIII-443 p.

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XV-226-LII p.

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XL-308 p.

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CXCV-276 p.

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VIII-595 p.

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XVIII-284-322-351 p.

XXXV-1304 p.

601, 786, 639, 383, 433 and XLVIII-244 p. in 6 vols.

587 p.

606, XV-646, 520 and 219+101 p. in 4 vols.

557 and 614 p. in 2 vols.