Acts of Martyrs and Saints (Vol 7 of 7): Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum 9781463213237

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ACTS OF MARTYRS A N D SAINTS

ACTS OF MARTYRS AND SAINTS

Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum

Volume 7

Edited by PAUL BEDJAN

Introductory Material Translated by CLAUDE DETIENNE

GORGIAS PRESS

2008

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Foreword Translated by Claude Detienne In the short preface of the edition of the Ecclesiastic History of Eusebius of Caesarea we published last spring, we announced the imminent publication of our seventh volume of Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum. Today we are happy to be able to present it to our benevolent readers as a real treasure. This new publication contains the Paradisus Patrurn, i.e. the Lives of the Desert Fathers, their Discussions and Counsels. This important collection was translated from Greek and Latin. Its main authors are Palladius and St. Jerome. The different manuscripts attribute to the former the three main parts of the work and to the latter the part which is inserted between the second and the third (pp. 329-442). However, in the Latin texts, that part is attributed to Rufinus. Palladius and Jerome were contemporary. (Cf. p. 163). Here are the texts which mention the authors of the Paradisus Patrum: iUQ^,: cTinn' S*» '.m»SnViScla aonm'U '. o.NVitv-il iiioi (Cf. p. 833). We had to make the numbers comply with the note, 616 and 367 forming only 983. 2° The origin of the lacuna 2

was obviously a) repeated numbers in several places: e.g. p. 539, from number -v 5 on, the preceding six numbers were repeated, the same thing happening in other places, especially p. 823, where numbers ..ynT ..„ht .^oi were noted .omx .wax .aiai. b) Numbers obviously missing, like number p. 545, number p. 643, number p. 649, number -KSLO p. 746, number p. 747, number P- 752, number p. 756, etc. We had to delete at least two exceeding numbers, in places they were not needed. Number A, p. 444 was brought there from p. 445, 1. 9, .A, ... It was obviously out of place. We can say that the Paradisus Patrum is published for the first time, for what has been published before is nothing compared to the whole work, as far as we know. We have before us a small German publication by students of the famous Tulberg in 1851 with the following somehow specious title: "Libri qui inscribitur Paradisus Patrum partes selectae, e codicibus Mss. Syriacis M. Britannici et Bib. Vaticanae excerptae". It contains rather ordinary accounts, eleven in all. Mr. Budge also published some pieces in his Historia Monastica of Thomas of Marga, but it represents just some samples. Here are the manuscripts we used: 1° That of Paris, num. 317, which contains the same accounts as that of Budge until leave 197b excluded. {Hist. Mon. vol. 2, p. 195.) We removed the Life of St. Anthony, that of St. Paul the Anchorite and the Story of the Monks of St. Pachomius, which we had published in our fifth volume. The Paris

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manuscript does not contain the third part of the Paradisus. 2° That of Berlin, num. 323. We had a word about it above. It is a most recent manuscript, which was written in Tur-Abdin. 3° In the British Museum, we did not find the whole Paradisus Patrum in a single volume. Therefore, to collate the different parts of our publication, we had to use several manuscripts, the most important of which are: add. 12173; add. 17173; add. 17177, for the first two parts as well as for that of St. Jerome. For the third part of Palladius, we used manuscripts add. 14583 and add. 17174 until p. 615 of our edition. From there on, we only had the latter before us. We had leaves 60-184 photographed because we could not stay more in London. 4° Our notebooks, copied from the Paris manuscript and checked by ourselves with the original, collated with the Berlin and London manuscripts by ourselves, were then sent to Rome to be checked with the Vatican manuscript. We adopted this latter for the number and order of the accounts and matters. We had everything that was missing in the Paris manuscript copied from it. However, we will say that we kept accounts that are in the Paris but not in the Rome manuscript, e.g. the Story of Evagrius and that of Marcus or Malchus (231-251). We also copied from the manuscript add. 17174 the Discourse of St. John Chrysostom and that of Abraham Naptraya to add them as an appendix to our edition. They are missing in the Rome manuscript. It should be noticed that all manuscripts of the Paradisus Patrum do not contain the same accounts and do not follow the same order. However, to say the truth, the two London manuscripts agree generally well for the third part. We warn our readers that the note at the bottom of p. 278 of

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our edition contains an error which escaped us about the Rome manuscript. The questions and answers of chapter 23, p. 895 of our edition, are missing in the London manuscript 17174. During our visit to the British Museum, we did not have them with us to compare them with the manuscript add. 17264, which bears the title ¡Oj.^? lioiQi, with which they could be related. We could ask nobody to do us the service in this moment. We allow ourselves this comment here for those who could verify it. Like for the preceding volumes, we had to vocalize, punctuate and conform to Chaldean orthography all we took from the different manuscripts we used. We put at the bottom of the pages some but not all variants. ANS-LEZ-LIÉGE, the 6th August 1897. PAUL BED JAN P. d. 1. ni., Consultor of the S. C. of the Propaganda.

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