Hagiography

Notes to readers

• We intend to populate this list of hagiographical writings with more of the numerous saints' Lives that are available in digitized form on the internet. This list represents only a foundation based on the major collections, especially of martyr acts.
• Abbreviations: BHO = Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis; ET = English translation; FT = French translation; GT = German translation; LT = Latin translation

Bibliography

Table of Contents

• A

  • J. - B. Abbeloos, Ed., Acta Sancti Maris, Assyriae, Babyloniae ac Persidis seculo I apostoli, Syriace sive Aramaice, juxta manuscriptum Alqoschianum adjectis aliorum codicum lectionibus variantibus versione latina et annotationibus illustrata. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1885. (Text)
  • J. - B. Abbeloos, Ed., De vita et scriptis Sancti Jacobi, Batnarum Sarugi in Mesopotamia episcopi, cum ejusdem Syriacis carminibus duobus integris ac aliorum aliquot fragmentis, necnon Georgii ejus discipuli oratione panegyrica. Louvain: Vanlinthout Brothers, 1867. (Text)
  • A. Amiaud, Ed., La légende syriaque de Saint Alexis, l’homme de Dieu. Paris: F. Vieweg, 1889. (Text)
  • J. S. Assemani, Ed., Acta sanctorum martyrum Orientalium et Occidentalium in duas partes distributa, adcedunt Acta S. Simeonis Stylitae, vol. 1, 2 vol. Rome: Joseph Collins, 1748. (Text)
  • J. S. Assemani, Ed., Acta sanctorum martyrum Orientalium et Occidentalium in duas partes distributa, adcedunt Acta S. Simeonis Stylitae, vol. 2, 2 vol. Rome: Joseph Collins, 1748. (Text)

• B

  • P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Primus, vol. 1, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890. (Text)
  • P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Secundus, vol. 2, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1891. (Text)
  • P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Tertius, vol. 3, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1892. (Text)
  • P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Quartius, vol. 4, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1894. (Text)
  • P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Quintus, vol. 5, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1893. (Text)
  • P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Sextus, vol. 6, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1896. (Text)
  • P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Septimus, vol. 7, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1897. (Text)
  • P. Bedjan, Ed., Histoire de Mar-Jabalaha, de trois autres patriarches, d'un prêtre et de deux laïques, nestoriens. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1895. (Text)
  • E. W. Brooks, Vitae virorum apud Monophysitas celeberrimorum [textus]. Harrassowitz: Leipzig, 1907. (Text)
  • E. W. Brooks, Ed., “John of Ephesus: Lives of the Eastern Saints (I)”, in Patrologia Orientalis, Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1923, pp. 1-307. (Text)
  • E. A. W. Budge, Ed., The Book of Paradise, Being the Histories and Sayings of the Monks and Ascetics of the Egyptian Desert by Palladius, Hieronymus and Others. The Syriac Texts, according to the Recension of ‘Anân-Îshô‘ of Bêth ‘Âbhê, vol. 1, 2 vol. London: W. Drugulin, 1904. (Text)
  • E. A. W. Budge, Ed., The Book of Paradise, Being the Histories and Sayings of the Monks and Ascetics of the Egyptian Desert by Palladius, Hieronymus and Others. The Syriac Texts, according to the Recension of ‘Anân-Îshô‘ of Bêth ‘Âbhê, vol. 2, 2 vol. London: W. Drugulin, 1904. (Text)
  • F. C. Burkitt, Ed., Euphemia and the Goth with the Acts of Martyrdom of the Confessors of Edessa. London: Williams & Norgate, 1913. (Text)

• C

  • J. - B. Chabot, “Histoire de Jésus-Sabran, Écrite par Jésus-Yab d'adiabène, publiée d'après le ms. syr. CLXI de la Bibliothèque Vaticane”, Nouvelles archives des missions scientifiques et littéraires, vol. 7, pp. 485-584, 1897. (Text)
  • J. - B. Chabot, Ed., La légende de Mar Bassus, martyr persan, suivie de l’histoire de la fondation de son couvent à Apamée, d’après un manuscrit de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1893. (Text)
  • J. - B. Chabot, “Le livre de la Chasteté composé par Jésusdenah, Évêque de Baçrah”, École Française de Rome. Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire, vol. 16, pp. 225-292, 1896. (Text)
  • J. - B. Chabot, Ed., Documenta ad origenes monophysitarum illustrandas. Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1907. (Text)
  • W. Cureton, History of the Martyrs of Palestine by Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea, discovered in a very ancient Syriac Manuscript. London; Paris: Williams & Norgate; C. Borrani, 1861. (Text)

• F

  • H. Feige, Die Geschichte des Mâr ‘Abhdîšô‘ und seines Jüngers Mâr Qardagh. Kiel: C.F. Haeseler, 1890. (Text)

• G

  • I. Gildemeister, Ed., Acta S. Pelagiae. Bonn: Adolph Marcus, 1879. (Text)

• K

  • H. G. Kleyn, Ed., Het Leven van Johannes van Tella door Elias: Syrische tekst en Nederlandsche vertaling. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1882. (Text)

• L

  • P. de Lagarde, Reliquiae Iuris Ecclesiastici Antiquissimae, Syriace. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1856. (Text)
  • P. de Lagarde, Ed., Analecta Syriaca. London: Williams & Norgate, 1858. (Text)
  • T. J. Lamy, Ed., “Acta Beati Abrahae Kidunaiae Monachi”, Analecta Bollandiana, vol. 10, pp. 10-49, 1891. (Text)
  • A. S. Lewis, Acta Mythologica Apostolorum Transcribed from an Arabic Ms. in the Convent of Deyr-es-Suriani, Egypt, and from Mss. in the Convent of St Catherine, on Mount Sinai. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1904. (Text)
  • A. S. Lewis and Gibson, M. D., Eds., Palestinian Syriac Texts from Palimpsest Fragments in the Taylor-Schechter Collection. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1900. (Text)
  • A. S. Lewis, Apocrypha Syriaca: The Protevangelium Jacobi and Transitus Mariae, with Texts from the Septuagint, the Corân, the Peshitta, and from a Syriac Hymn in a Syro-Arabic Palimpsest of the Fifth and Other Centuries. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1902. (Text)
  • A. S. Lewis, Ed., Select Narratives of Holy Women from the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest as Written above the Old Syriac Gospels by John the Stylite, of Beth-Mari-Qanûn in A.D. 778. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1900. (Text)

• M

  • G. Mösinger and Zingerle, P., Eds., Monumenta Syriaca ex Romanis codicibus collecta (I), vol. 1, 2 vol. Paris; London: Maisonneuve; Williams and Norgate, 1869. (Text)
  • G. Mösinger and Zingerle, P., Eds., Monumenta Syriaca ex Romanis codicibus collecta (II), vol. 2, 2 vol. Oeneponti: Academic Library of Wagnerianis, 1878. (Text)

• N

  • F. Nau, Ed., “Jean Rufus. Évêque de Maïouma: Plérophories”, in Patrologia Orientalis, Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1912, pp. 5-206. (Text)

• O

  • J. J. Overbeck, Ed., Ephraemi Syri, Rabulae episcopli Edesseni, Balaei aliorumque Opera selecta: E codicibus syriacis manuscriptis in museo Britannico et bibliotheca Bodleiana asservatis primus editit. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1865. (Text)

• P

  • A. Palmer, Monk and mason on the Tigris frontier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. (Text)
  • A. Palmer, Ed., Tašʻita d-qadiša Mar Šmuʾel w-Mar Šemʻon w-Mar Gabriʾel / maṣḥa wa-sriṭa men nuske ʻatiqe b-yad ʼAndrʼos Baʼlmar. Holland: Monastery of Mar Ephrem, 1983. (Text)
  • P. Peeters, Ed., Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis. Brussels: Society of Bollandists, 1910. (Text)
  • G. Phillips, Ed., The Doctrine of Addai, the Apostle, now First Edited in a Complete Form in the Original Syriac, with an English Translation and Notes. London: Trübner & co., 1876. (Text)
  • J. B. Pitra and Martin, J. P. P., Eds., Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata, vol. 4. Paris: Publico Galliarum Typographeo, 1883. (Text)

• R

  • R. Raabe, Ed., Die Geschichte des Dominus Mâri, eines Apostels des Orients. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1893. (Text)
  • I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Documenta varia, vol. 1, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1904. (Text)
  • I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Apocryphi hypomnemata Domini Nostri, seu, Acta Pilati, vol. 2, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1908. (Text)
  • I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Vetusta documenta liturgica, vol. 3, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1908. (Text)
  • I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Documenta de antiquis haeresibus, vol. 4, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1909. (Text)
  • I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu, Collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis, vol. 5, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1909. (Text)

• S

  • E. Sachau, Ed., Inedita Syriaca: Eine Sammlung syrischer Übersetzungen von Schriften griechischer Profanliteratur, mit einem Anhang, aus den Handschriften des Brittischen Museums herausgegeben. Vienna: Der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses in Halle, 1870. (Text)
  • F. Schulthess, Probe einer syrischen Version der Vita St. Antonii. Leipzig: W. Druchlin, 1894. (Text)

• Z

  • P. Zingerle, Chrestomathia Syriaca. Rome: Society of the Propagation of the Faith, 1871. (Text)

• Individual Saints' Lives

  • A
    • Aaron of Sarug
    • Abraham of Antioch
    • Abraham Qidunaya
    • Addai the Apostle
    • Ahudemmeh
    • Alexius, the Man of God
    • Anthony
    • Doctrine of the Apostles
    • Apphianus/Appian

  • D

    • Dionysios the Areopagite

  • E

    • Ephrem the Syrian

  • I

    • Isaac of Nineveh

  • J

    • Jacob Baradaeus [Burd'oyo]
    • John bar Aphtonia
    • John bar Penkaye
    • John of Dalyatha
    • John of Tella

  • M

    • Maccabean Martyrs
    • Marutha of Tagrit

  • Q

    • Qardag

 

Instrumenta

• P. Peeters, Ed., Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis. Brussels: Society of Bollandists, 1910.
• P. Peeters, “Le martyrologe de Rabban Sliba”, Analecta Bollandiana, vol. 27, pp. 129–200., 1908.
  • Nau's has a collation of a new manuscript against Peeters' edition:
    • F. Nau, “Un nouveau manuscrit du martyrologe de Rabban Sliba”, Revue de l'Orient chrétien, vol. 15, pp. 327-329, 1910.
• ​F. Nau, “Un martyrologie et douze ménologes syriaques”, in Patrologia Orientalis, Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1912, pp. 5-26.
  • Wright's editio princeps and English Translation of the fourth-century Martyrologium Syriacum from BL Add. 12,150 can be found here:
    • W. Wright, Ed., “An Ancient Syrian Martyrology”, The Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record, vol. 8, pp. 45-56; 423-432, 1866.
• ​H. Delehaye, Synaxarium ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae. Brussels: Society of Bollandists, 1902.
• Menologion of Simeon Metaphrastes (PG 114:294-1462; 115; 116:1-1080)
  • M. Hancki, Ed., Symeonis Metaphrastae Operum pars tertia complectens vitas sanctorum a Symeone Maetaphraste Scriptas (I). Paris: Garnier Brothers, 1903.
    • See especially 114:294-1462
  • M. Hancki, Ed., Symeonis Metaphrastae Operum pars tertia complectens vitas sanctorum a Symeone Maetaphraste Scriptas (II). Paris: Garnier Brothers, 1899.
  • M. Hancki, Ed., Symeonis Metaphrastae Operum pars tertia complectens vitas sanctorum a Symeone Maetaphraste Scriptas (III). Paris: Garnier Brothers, 1891.
    • See especially 116:1-1080.
• Menologion of Basil (PG 117)
  • A. Albani, Ed., Menologii Graecorum. Paris: Garnier Brothers, 1894.
    • Specifically colums 9-634.

(NB: This latter three are not, strictly speaking, Syriac resources, but are, nevertheless, extremely important for the study of hagiography).

• Roger Pearse has put up links to the very important Patrologia Orientalis
  • R. Pearse, “Patrologia Orientalis (PO) PDF's”. 2012.

 

Collected Editions of Hagiographical Texts

(in alphabetical order by last name of editor or translator)

• J. - B. Abbeloos, Ed., Acta Sancti Maris, Assyriae, Babyloniae ac Persidis seculo I apostoli, Syriace sive Aramaice, juxta manuscriptum Alqoschianum adjectis aliorum codicum lectionibus variantibus versione latina et annotationibus illustrata. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1885. [Back to Top]

  • Cf. BHO 610, 1, 2. 
  • German Translation
    • R. Raabe, Ed., Die Geschichte des Dominus Mâri, eines Apostels des Orients. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1893.

 

• J. - B. Abbeloos, Ed., De vita et scriptis Sancti Jacobi, Batnarum Sarugi in Mesopotamia episcopi, cum ejusdem Syriacis carminibus duobus integris ac aliorum aliquot fragmentis, necnon Georgii ejus discipuli oratione panegyrica. Louvain: Vanlinthout Brothers, 1867. [Back to Top]

  • Cf. BHO 413

 

• A. Amiaud, Ed., La légende syriaque de Saint Alexis, l’homme de Dieu. Paris: F. Vieweg, 1889. [Back to Top]

  • Cf. BHO 36–40

 

• J. S. Assemani, Ed., Acta sanctorum martyrum Orientalium et Occidentalium in duas partes distributa, adcedunt Acta S. Simeonis Stylitae, vol. 1, 2 vol. Rome: Joseph Collins, 1748. [Back to Top] 

  • Volume 1: Eastern Martyrs

    • ​​Simeon bar Sabba'e (FT) (GT) (= BHO 1117)
    • Azad (FT) (Sozomen, H.E., 2.11) (= BHO 124)
    • Tarbo (FT) (GT) (= BHO 1149)
    • Miles (FT) (= BHO 772)
    • Shahdost (FT) (GT) (= BHO 1033)
    • Barshebya (FT) (= BHO 146)
    • Narsai and Joseph (FT) (= BHO 806)
    • Daniel and Warda (= BHO 245)
    • 120 Martyrs (FT) (GT) (= BHO 718)
    • Barba'shmin (FT) (GT) (= BHO 135)
    • Martyrs who died in various places (FT) (= BHO 711)
    • Jacob the Priest and Mary, the Daughter of the Covenant (FT) (GT) (= BHO 426)
    • Thekla, the Daughter of the Covenant, and four who were with her (FT) (GT) (= BHO 1157)
    • Barhadbshabba the Deacon (FT) (= BHO 138)
    • Captives from Beth Zabdai (FT) (GT) (= BHO 375)
    • Forty Martyrs (FT) (= BHO 5)
    • Badma the Abbot (FT) (= BHO 131)
    • 'Aqebshma (FT) (GT) (= BHO 22)
    • Zabina, Lazarus, Narsai, Elia, Mahari, Habib, Saba, etc. (= BHO 531)
    • Shabur, Bishop of Beth Niqator and Ishaq, Bishop of Karka d-Beth Slok (GT) (= BHO 1042)
    • Mihrshabur (FT) (= BHO 771)
    • Jacob Intercisus (FT) (GT) (= BHO 394)

 

• J. S. Assemani, Ed., Acta sanctorum martyrum Orientalium et Occidentalium in duas partes distributa, adcedunt Acta S. Simeonis Stylitae, vol. 2, 2 vol. Rome: Joseph Collins, 1748. [Back to Top]

  • Volume 2: Western Martyrs

    • Lucian and Marcian (FT) (= BHO 572)
    • Victorinus, Victor, Nikephoros, Claudianus, Diodoros, Serapion, Papias (FT) (= BHO 1245)
    • Stratonike and Seleukos (FT) (= BHO 1102)
    • Seven Martyrs of Samosata (FT) (= BHO 388)
    • Agnes (FT) (= BHO 34)
  • Volume 2, continued: Martyrs of Palestine
    • Prokopios (FT) (= BHO 1003)
    • Alphaeus, Zakkai, Romanos (FT) (= BHO 46)
    • Timothy (FT) (= BHO 1231)
    • Appian (FT) (= BHO 95)
    • Aedesius, brother of Appian (FT) (= BHO 28)
    • Agapius (FT) (= BHO 32)
    • Theodosia (FT) (= BHO 1177)
    • Peter ("Absalom") (FT) (= BHO 928)
    • Theodota (FT) (= BHO 1179)
    • Simeon Stylites (= BHO 1124)
  • A French translation of the Latin translation in Assemani:
    • F. Lagrange, Les Actes des martyrs d’Orient, traduits pour la première fois en francais sur la traduction latine des manuscrits syriaques de Étienne-Evode Assemani. Paris: Ecclesiastical and Classical Library of Eugene Belin, 1852.
  • German translations of some of the martyrdoms in Assemani:
    • O. Braun, Ed., Ausgewählte Akten persischer Märtyrer, mit einem Anhung: Ostsyrisches Mönchsleben. Munich: Jos Kösel, 1915.
    • Braun also includes translations of the following Persian martyrs:
      • ​Mar Abda (Syriac text here) (= Mar Aba)
      • Narsai (Syriac text here) (= BHO 786)
      • Peroz (Syriac text here) (= BHO 921)
      • Jacob (Syriac text here) (= BHO 423)
      • Mar Aba (Syriac text here) (= BHO 595)
      • Mar Giwargis (George) (Syriac text here) (= BHO 323 1,2)

 

• P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Primus, vol. 1, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890. [Back to Top]

  • Story of Simon Peter, Chief of the Apostles (Syriac) (= BHO 935)
  • Narrative of the Holy Apostle Saint Paul (Syriac) (= BHO 889)
  • The Narrative of Mar Mari, the Apostle (Syriac) (= BHO 610)
  • Acts of Sharbel the Martyr (Syriac) (= BHO 1049–1050)
  • Martyrdom of Barsamias (Syriac) (= BHO 151)
  • Memra on Gurya and Shmuna, composed by Jacob of Sarugh (Syriac) (= BHO 366)
  • Martyrdom of Habib the Deacon (Syriac) (= BHO 367)
  • Memra on Habib the Deacon, composed by Jacob of Sarugh (Syriac) (= BHO 368)
  • Narrative of the holy Mar ‘Abd al-Masih (Syriac) (= BHO 3)
  • Memra on the Confessors of Palestine, written by Eusebios of Caesarea (Syriac) (= BHO 710) (See Below)
  • George (Syriac) (= BHO 313) (read the Syriac along with this)
  • The Eight Children who were Martyred in Ephesos (Syriac) (= BHO 1012) (Read with this) [= "The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus", Part 2 of the Seven Sleepers story (Syriac) (= BHO 1014)]
  • Narrative of the second Invention of the Holy Cross (Syriac) (= BHO 218)
  • John bar Malke (Syriac) (= BHO 498)
  • Marina (Syriac) (= BHO 696)
  • Himyarite Martyrs (Martyrs of Najran); Letter of Simeon of Beth Arsham (Syriac) (= BHO 99–101)
  • Zia (Syriac) (= BHO 1251)
  • Shlita (Syriac) (= BHO 1034)
  • Mar Yawnan the Stranger (Syriac) (= BHO 527–528) (Read with this)
  • Martyrs of Palestine:
  • Prokopios (Syriac) (= BHO 1002–1003)
  • Alphaeus (Syriac) (= BHO 45–46)
  • Timothy (Syriac) (= BHO 1230–1231)
  • Agapios and others (Syriac) (= BHO 31–32)
  • Apphianus (Syriac) (= BHO 94)
  • Alusis/Aedesius (Syriac) (= BHO 27)
  • Agapios (Syriac) (= BHO 31)
  • Theodosia (Syriac) (= BHO 1176)
  • Domninos (Syriac) (= BHO 264)
  • Paulos, Valentina and Ennatha (Syriac) (= BHO 918)
  • Antoninos, Zebinas, Germanos, and Mannathos (Syriac) (= BHO 65)
  • Ares, Primos, and Elia (Syriac) (= BHO 98)
  • Peter ‘Abshlama (Syriac) (= BHO 927 and 928)
  • Pamphilos, Valens, and Seleukos (Syriac) (= BHO 831)
  • Hadrianos and Eubulos (Syriac) (= BHO 369)
  • Paulos, Nilos, Patermuthius and Elia (Syriac) (= BHO 920)
  • Silvanos and those with him (Syriac) (= BHO 1065)

• P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Secundus, vol. 2, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1891. [Back to Top]

  • Sultan, Mahduct, Adurparva, and Mihnerses (Syriac) (=BHO 1106)
  • Zebina and his fellows (Syriac) (=BHO 531)
  • Shapor, Isaac, Mana, Abraham, and Simeon (Syriac) (=BHO 1042)
  • About the Victory of the martyrs of the East (1) (Syriac) (=BHO 706)
  • About the Victory of the martyrs of the East (2) (Syriac) (=BHO 706)
  • Simeon Bar Sabbae (Syriac) (=BHO 1117)
  • Another of Simeon Bar Sabbae and his fellows (Syriac) (=BHO 1119)
  • Posi (Syriac) (=BHO 993)
  • Martha, daughter of Posi (Syriac) (=BHO 698)
  • The great slaughter among the Khuzites (Syriac) (=BHO 698)
  • Azad (Syriac) (=BHO 124)
  • Tharbo (Syriac) (=BHO 1149)
  • Miles, Aborsam (Abrosimus), and Sinoi (Syriac) (=BHO 772)
  • Sadoth (Sahdust) (Syriac) (=BHO 1033)
  • Barsabias (Syriac) (=BHO 146)
  • Narsai and Joseph (Syriac) (=BHO 806)
  • A Summary of the martyrs (Syriac) (=BHO 807)
  • Daniel and Warda (Syriac) (=BHO 245)
  • The 120 men and nine women (Syriac) (=BHO 718)
  • Barbasemin and the 16 martyrs (Syriac) (=BHO 135)
  • The contest of the [Persian] martyrs killed in various places (Syriac) (=BHO 711)
  • Jacob and Maria (Syriac) (=BHO 426) 
  • Thekla and the four with her (Syriac) (=BHO 1157)
  • Barhadbeshabba (Syriac) (=BHO 138)
  • Martyrdom of the captives: Heliodorus, Dosas, Mareabes (Mariab), and Abdiesus (Syriac) (=BHO 375)
  • The 40 Chaldean and Persian martyrs (Syriac) (=BHO 5)
  • Badimus (Syriac) (=BHO 131)
  • Acepsimas, Joseph, and Aeithalas (Syriac) (=BHO 22)
  • Behnam and Sara (Syriac) (=BHO 177)
  • Qardag (Kardag) (Syriac) (=BHO 55-56)
  • The story of the city of Bet-Seleucia (Syriac) (=BHO 705)
  • Jacob Intercisus (Syriac) (=BHO 394)
  • Pethion, Yazdin, Adurhormizd, and Anahid (Syriac) (=BHO 923)
  • Yazdin, Pethion (Syriac) (=BHO 434)
  • Yazdin (Syriac)  (=BHO 434)
  • Pethion and Adurhormizd (Syriac) (=BHO 25)
  • Pethion and Anahid (Syriac) (=BHO 47)
  • Pethion (Syriac) (=BHO 923)
  • Babai (Syriac) (=BHO 1049-50)
  • Mar Saba (Syriac) (=BHO 1029-30)
  • The alteration of St. Peter with Nero (Syriac) (=BHO 937)

• P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Tertius, vol. 3, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1892. [Back to Top]

  • The Story of Thomas the Apostle, the First High Priest of the East (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)

    • Act 1: Thomas the Apostle, the First High Priest of the East (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Act 2: About the Bridegroom who Taught there (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Act 3: About the Castle which Thomas Built (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Act 4: About the Boy whom the Serpent Killed and [Thomas] Raised (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Act 5: About the Colt, the Foal of the Donkey, to whom a Word was Given (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Act 6: About the Evil Spirit who left the Woman and She Believed in God (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Act 7: About that Child who was Admonished with the Eucharist (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Act 8: About the Woman and her Daughter who was Plagued with Demons (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Act 9: About Madonna, the Wife of Cyrus, who Believed in God (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Act 10: About how Cyrus Informed Mezdi, the King, about Thomas (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Another Praise of Thomas, the Apostle (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Act 11: About how Madonia Went to Prison (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Act 12: About Yarqana who Believed and Lived (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Act 13: About the Baptism [by] which He Baptized them (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Act 14: About the Prison (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Act 15: About the Healing of Meneshar (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
    • Act 16: How Thomas Left the World (Syriac) (=BHO 1186-1227)
  • The Discovery of the Original Cross (Syriac) (=BHO 214)
  • The Discovery of the Cross (2) (Syriac) (=BHO 215)
  • Mar Steven (Syriac) (=BHO 1087)
  • Mar Ignatius of Antioch (Syriac) (=BHO 452)
  • Mar Placidas the Soldier and His Wife and Two Sons (Syriac) (=BHO 298)
  • Mar Kyriakos (Cirycus) and His Mother, Iulitta (Syriac) (=BHO 194)
  • Mar Sergius and Bacchus (Syriac) (=BHO 1052)
  • Cypriana and Iusta, the Virgins (Syriac) (=BHO 228-29)
  • Barbara and Juliana (Syriac) (=BHO 134)
  • The 40 Holy Martyrs of Sebaste (Syriac) (=BHO 713)
  • Mar Augin (Syriac) (=BHO 120-22)
  • Mar Daniel the Healer (Syriac) (=BHO 244) 
  • Mar Micah, the Persian Archimandrite (Syriac) (=BHO 758)
    • Another Story of the Holy [Mar Micah] (Syriac) (=BHO 758)
    • Another Supplication [of Mar Micah] for God and Man (Syriac) (=BHO 758)
  • Mar Isaiah of Aleppo (Syriac) (=BHO 549)
  • Aba Bishoi the Solitary (Syriac) (=BHO 181-82)
  • Mar Ephrem (Syriac) (=BHO 269-73)
  • A Memra about Mar Ephrem done by Mar Jacob of Serug (Syriac) (=BHO 273)
  • Mar Eliazar (Syriac) (=BHO Appendix 276)
  • St. Shmone and Her Sons (Syriac) (=BHO Appendix 276.3)

• P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Quartius, vol. 4, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1894. [Back to Top] 

  • Lucianus and Marcianus (Syriac) (=BHO 572)
  • Victorinus, Victor, Nicephorus, Claudianus, Diodorus, Sarapion, and Papius (Syriac) (=BHO 1245)
  • Stratonice and Seleucus (Syriac) (=BHO 1103)
  • The Seven Martyrs: Hyperechius, Philotheus, and the rest (Syriac) (=BHO 388)
  • Hagne (Agnes) the Virgin (Syriac) (=BHO 34)
  • Theodota the Prostitute (Syriac) (=BHO 1179)
  • Bishop John and Jacob the Elder (Syriac) (=BHO 500)
  • Abraham, Bishop of Arbela (Syriac) (=BHO 12)
  • Hanania the Layman (Syriac) (=BHO 372)
  • Aeithalas the Priest and Hapsai the Deacon (Syriac) (=BHO 29)
  • Jacob the Elder and Azad the Deacon, (Syriac) (=BHO 423)
  • Gobrelaha (Gobdelaas) (Syriac) (=BHO 325)
  • Mar Badai the Elder (Syriac) (=BHO 130)
  • The Gelonian Persian Martyrs (Syriac) (=BHO 180; 1043)
  • Narsai the Son of the Covenant (Syriac) (=BHO 786)
  • Tatak (Syriac) (=BHO 1139)
  • 10 Martyrs of Beth-Garmai (Syriac) (=BHO 387)
  • Jacob the Guard (Syriac) (=BHO 412)
  • St. Christina (Syriac) (=BHO 187)
  • Mar Phineas (Syriac) (=BHO 989)
  • Mar Daro (Dado) (Syriac) (=BHO 240)
  • Mar Saba (Pirgusnasp) (Syriac) (=BHO 1031) 
  • Mar Abda and His Friends (Syriac) (=BHO 6) 
  • Perozes (Firuzes) (Syriac) (=BHO 921)
  • Mar Jacob, Bishop of Nisibis (Syriac) (=BHO 405-406)
  • Babola (Babylas) (Syriac) (=BHO 128)
  • Nicolaus (Syriac) (=BHO 810)
  • John the Compassionate (Syriac) (=BHO 511)
  • Bishop Rabbula of Urhoy (Syriac) (=BHO 1023)
    • Admonitions to Monks (Syriac) 
    • Admonitions to Priests and Sons of the Covenant (Syriac)
    • A Letter of the Blessed Rabble (Syriac)
    • A Letter of the Blessed Cyril to Mar Rabbula (Syriac)
    • A Homily (Turgama) that Bishop Rabbula Spoke in the Church of Constantinople (Syriac)
    • Intercessions of Mar Rabbula (Syriac)
  • A Metrical Homily (Memra) about Mar Bassus and Shushan His Sister (Syriac) (=BHO 174)
  • A Story about Mar Bassus (Syriac) (=BHO 176)
  • Another Story about Mar Bassus (Syriac) (=BHO 175)
  • Mar Simeon (Symeon) the Stylite (Syriac) (=BHO 1121) (ET)
    • A Letter of Quzma the Elder to Mar Simeon (Symeon) the Stylite (Syriac)
    • A Metrical Homily (Memra) of Mar Jacob about the Holy Mar Simeon (Symeon) the Stylite (Syriac) (=BHO 1126)

• P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Quintus, vol. 5, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1893. [Back to Top]

  • Mar Anthony the Great (Syriac) (=BHO 68)
  • Mar Pachomius (Syriac) (=BHO 829)
  • Mar Macarius the Great, the Egyptian (Syriac) (=BHO 574)
  • Mar Sarapion of Sidone (Syriac) (=BHO 1047)
  • Maria the Egyptian (Syriac) (=BHO 684)
  • Euphrosyna (Smaragdus) (Syriac) (=BHO 288) 
  • Onesima (Syriac) (=BHO 815-16)
  • Malchus Clysmensis (Syriac) (=BHO 587) 
  • Eugenia and Her Companions (Syriac) (=BHO 282)
  • Mar Paphnutius and His 546 Disciples (Syriac) (=BHO 839)
  • Mar Peter of Alexandria (Syriac) (=BHO 930) 
  • Mar Paul, Chief of the Solitaries (Syriac) (=BHO 913-14)
  • Pebronia (Febronia) of Nisibis (Syriac) (=BHO 302)
  • A Metrical Homily (Memra) of Mar Jacob of Serug about the Commemoration of the Departed (Syriac)
  • A Metrical Homily (Memra) which Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria, Wrote about the Humanity of our Lord (Syriac)
  • List of Variants (Syriac)

• P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Sextus, vol. 6, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1896. [Back to Top]

  • Mar Clement of Rome, Disciple of Simon Peter (Syriac) (=BHO 204)
  • Mar Onesimus (Syriac) (=BHO 817)
  • Sophia and Her Daughters (Syriac) (=BHO 1082-84) 
  • Mar Charius and His Colleagues (Syriac) (=BHO 186) 
  • Polycarp of Smyrna (Syriac) (=BHO 998)
  • Mar Acacius (Syriac) (=BHO 20-21)
    • A Second Questioning in the City of Byzantium (Syriac) (=BHO 20-21)
  • Gregory of Neocaesaria (Gregory Thaumaturgus) (Syriac) (=BHO 356)
  • Mar Qozma (Cosmas) and Damianus (Syriac) (=BHO 210)
  • Eudoxius and His Colleagues (Syriac) (=BHO 280)
  • Theoponpus (Theopompus) and His Colleagues (Syriac) (=BHO 1182)
  • Probus, Tarachus, and Andronichus (Syriac) (=BHO 1001)
    • A Questioning which [Maximus] Asked Him in the City of Mopsuestia (Syriac) (=BHO 1001)
    • A Third Questioning in the City of Anazarbus (Syriac) (=BHO 1001)
  • Leontius and Publius (Syriac) (=BHO 563)
  • Eusebius Bishop of Rome (Syriac) (=BHO 293) 
  • The Translation of St. Amphilochius, the Bishop of Iconicum, who made it for St. Basil, the Bishop of Caesarea of Cappadocia (Syriac) (=BHO 170)
  • Mar Eusebius of Samosata (Syriac) (=BHO 294)
    • A Letter of Gregory the Theologian to Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata (Syriac)
    • Another [Letter] to Bishop Eusebius (Syriac)
  • Mar Julian Saba (Syriac) (=BHO 553)
  • Mar Andronichus and Athanasia His Wife (Syriac) (=BHO 59)
  • Eleutherius and His Colleagues (Syriac) (=BHO 266)
  • Mar Mama and His Parents (Syriac) (=BHO 591) 
    • Another of Mar Mama (Syriac) (=BHO 589)
  • Mar Dyonisius of Athens (Syriac) (=BHO 255)
  • Mar Athanasius, the Archbishop of Alexandria (Syriac) (=BHO 114)
  • Mar Julius, the Bishop of Rome (Syriac) (=BHO p. 124)
  • Mar Gregory, the Bishop of Nyssa (Syriac) (=BHO p. 81)
  • Mar Gregory the Theologian of Nazianzus (Syriac) (=BHO 359)
  • John Chrysostom (Syriac) (=BHO 508)
  • Mar Cyril, the Patriarch of Alexandria (Syriac) (=BHO 237)
  • Abraham Kidunaya (Syriac) (=BHO 16-17)
  • Theodore Stratelates (Syriac) (=BHO 1165) 
  • Mar Domet (Dometius) (Syriac) (=BHO 263)
  • Abhai, the Bishop of Nicaea (Syriac) (=BHO 10) 
  • Pelagia (Syriac) (=BHO 919)
  • A Metrical Homily (Memra) of Mar Jacob about the Victorius Mar Sergius and Bacchus (Syriac) (=BHO 1054)
  • A Metrical Homily (Memra) of Mar Jacob about the 40 Holy Martyrs (Syriac) (=BHO 714) 
  • A Metrical Homily (Memra) of Mar Jacob about the Departed (Syriac) (=BHO 714)

• P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Septimus, vol. 7, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1897. [Back to Top]

  • Part 1: Palladius, Lausaic History, section 1 (=BHO 846-853)
  • Male Ascetics
    • About a Certain Monk in Ancyra (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed John of Lycus (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Posidonius (Syriac) 
    • About Chronius of Phoenice (Syriac)
    • About Jacob the Lame (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Solomon (Syriac) 
    • About Dorotheus, the Elder (Syriac) 
    • About Diocles (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Capito (Syriac) 
    • About a Certain Monk who Fell (Syriac)
    • About the Blessed Ephrem, the Deacon of the Church of Urhay (Syriac) 
    • About Innocentius, the Elder (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Elpidius (Syriac)
    • About Eustathius (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Sisinnius (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Gaddai (Gaddanus), the Palestinian (Syriac)
    • About the Blessed Elijah (Syriac) 
    • About Sabat (Sabas) the Layman from Jericho (Syriac)
    • About the Blessed Sarapion of Sedona (Syriac) 
  • Stories about the Holy Women (Syriac) 
    • About the Virgin who Hid Athanasius the Great (Syriac) 
    • About Piamon the Virgin (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Amantalida (Talis) (Syriac) 
    • About Timirion (Timiron, Taor) (Syriac) 
    • About a Certain Virgin and Martyr, Coluthus (Syriac)
    • About a Certain Virgin and about Magistianus (Syriac)
    • About St. Melania the Great (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Melania the Lesser (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Olympias (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Candida (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Gelasia (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Juliana (Syriac) 
    • About Heronius (Verus) and His Wife (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Magna (Syriac)
  • The Beginning of the Stories
    • About Isidorus (Syriac)
    • Dorotheus (Syriac)
    • A Young Virgin, [Potamiaena] (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Didymus (Syriac)
    • About the Virgin, Alexandra (Syriac)
    • About Abba Macarius and about a Certain Virgin (Syriac) 
    • About the Monks of Nitria (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Amon the Great (Syriac)
    • About the Blessed Abba Or (Syriac)
    • About the Blessed Pambo (Panbo) (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Bishop Ammonius (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Benjamin (Syriac)
    • About Apollonius the Merchant (Syriac) 
    • About the Physical Brothers, Paisius and Isaiah (Syriac)
    • About the Blessed Macarius (Syriac)
    • About the Blessed Mar Nathaniel (Syriac)
    • About the Two Blessed Ones: Macarius the Egyptian and Macarius the Alexandrian (Syriac)
      • About Macarius the Egyptian (Syriac) 
      • About Macarius the Alexandrian (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Paul the Simple (Syriac)
    • About the Blessed Pachomius (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Stephen (Syriac) 
    • Those who Fell into Sinful Traps (Syriac) 
    • About Valens the Palestinian (Syriac) 
    • About Aaron the Alexandrian (Syriac)
    • About Ptolemaeus (Syriac)
    • About Abraham the Egyptian (Syriac) 
    • About a Certain Virgin in Jerusalem (Syriac)
    • A Virgin who Fell and Returned (Syriac) 
    • About a Virgin who was in Caesarea Palestina (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Taisia (Syriac)
    • About the Blessed Abba Elijah (Syriac)
    • About the Blessed Dorotheus (Syriac) 
    • About the Blessed Pachomius the Great (Syriac)  
    • A Defense and Preparation with an Exhortation (Syriac) 
  • Introductory Matter
    • A Letter of Palladius, Bishop of Helenopolis, to Lausa (Syriac)
    • About the Goal of the Book (Syriac)
    • [The Book's] counsels (Syriac)
  • Palladius, Lausaic History, section 2 (Syriac) (=BHO 854-56)
    • Mark the Monk (The Mourner) (Syriac)
    • The Blessed Olog (Eulogius) (Syriac)
    • A Certain Alexandrian Boy (or: A Certain Alexandrian Layperson) (Syriac)
    • A Disciple of Sabas who was in Scete (Syriac)
    • A Disciple of Sabas Dwelling in a Cell (Syriac)
    • A Disciple of Sabas Living in the Desert (Syriac)
    • Peter, the Disciple of One of the Elders (Syriac)
    • A Disciple of One of the Elders (Syriac)
    • About Aurelius (Syriac)
    • About Abba Moses the Indian [who came] from Thieves (Syriac)
    • About Abba Pior (Syriac)
    • About Abba Moses the Lybian (Syriac)
    • About that Changing of His Lamp (Syriac)
    • The Blessed Evagrius (Syriac)
    • Mark (or Malchus), the Solitary (Syriac) (=BHO 585)
    • About Two of the Fathers who were Sent (Syriac)
    • About a Certain Elder who was Sent (Syriac)
    • About a Certain Naked Elder who was Grazing with the Animals (Syriac)
    • About Another of the Saints (Syriac)
    • About a Certain Solitary who was Grazing on Grass by the Jordan (Syriac)
    • About a Certain Holy Virgin (Syriac)
    • About Two Young Brothers who were with Macarius (Syriac)
    • About Abba Bessarion (Syriac)
      • About the Miracles which Abba Bessarion Did (Syriac)
    • The Nine Virtues of a Certain One of the Saints (Syriac)
    • About the Blessed Maria (Syriac)
    • A Story about One of the Elders, about the Observance of the Mind (Syriac) 
    • About Two Brothers who were Dwelling in the Monastery of the House of the Persians (Syriac)
    • About a Certain Virgin who Grew Old in the Disciplines of Piety (Syriac)
    • About a Certain Stephanus who Fell by Shameful Wantonness (Syriac)
    • About Eucharpius (Syriac)
    • About a Certain Famous Deacon Dwelling in a Coenobium in Egypt (Syriac)
    • About a Bishop who Fell with a Prostitute (Syriac)
    • Another about a Certain Brother, a Neighbor of Abba Poimen (Syriac)
    • About a Certain Brother who Apostatized because of a Daughter of a Priest (Syriac)
    • About a Certain Old Man who was in Scete (Syriac)
    • About that Prostitute whom Sarapion Taught (Syriac)
    • About the Prostitute that Podiaqnos Expelled from the Church (Syriac)
    • Concerning Abba Apollo, that One in Scete (Syriac)
    • About Cosmas (Qozma) on Mt. Sinai (Syriac)
    • About Abba Macarius who was Accused by a Prostitute (Syriac)
    • About the Elder who was Saying that Melchizedek is the Son of God (Syriac)
    • About Abba Macarius the Egyptian (Syriac)
    • About the Story [of Abba Macarius the Egyptian] (Syriac)
    • About Abba Mark the Lesser, the Disciple of Abba Silvanus (Syriac)
    • Abba Paulus the Simple, Disciple of Mar Anthony (Syriac)
    • About the Writer, Palladius, and about a Certain Blessed Brother (Syriac)
  • Paradise of the Fathers Part 2: A History of the Monks of Egypt Ascribed to Jerome (Syriac) (=BHO 843) 
    • An Apology (Syriac)
    • John of Lycus (Syriac)
    • The Holy Abba Or (Syriac)
    • Abba Ammon (Syriac)
    • Abba Abn (Benus) (Syriac)
    • The Story of the Disciplines of the Brothers in the City of Oxyrhynchus (Syriac)
    • Abba Theon (Syriac)
    • Abba Elijah (Syriac)
    • Apollo and Ammon (Syriac)
    • Another of Abba Apelles (Syriac)
    • Another of a Different Apollo and John in the Desert (Syriac)
    • Another of Abba Paphnutius, the Spiritual Merchant (Syriac)
    • The Blessed Olog (Eulogius) (Syriac)
    • Another of Abba Isidorus (Syriac)
    • Dioscorus (Syriac)
    • Corpres and the Blessed Patermuthius (Syriac)
    • The Household of Abba Or and Isaiah and Paul and Anuph (Nophi) (Syriac)
    • Evagrius (Syriac)
    • Another of Abba Pithyrion (Syriac)
    • The Victories of the Blessed Fathers (Syriac)
    • Another Common Victory for the Brothers of Nitria (Syriac)
    • The First Ammon (Syriac)
    • A Different Abba Ammon in Nitria (Syriac)
    • Didymus (Syriac)
    • Chronius (Chronidus) (Syriac)
    • The Three Brothers (Syriac)
    • Philemon (Syriac)
    • John (Syriac)
    • Sarapion (Syriac)
    • Apollo the Lesser, the Reader and Martyr (Syriac)
  • The Paradise of the Fathers, Part 3: numerous apophthegmata (Syriac) (=BHO 846-66; 879)
    • Part 1: The Teaching of the Holy Fathers (Syriac)
      • About the Flight from Humanity and Silence and Constancy in the Cell (Syriac)
      • About Fasting and the Nazarite Vow and the Rest of the Labors (Syriac)
      • About the Reading of the Scriptures, Vigils, the Service of the Psalms and Constant Prayers (Syriac)
      • About How It is Fitting for Us to Weep and Mourn over Our Sins Always (Syriac)
      • About Voluntary Poverty (Syriac)
      • About Continence (Syriac)
      • About Obedience Toward God and Our Fathers (Syriac)
      • About Diligent Care with Our Thoughts and Our Words and Our Deeds (Syriac)
      • About Love and Compassion and Hospitality (Syriac)
      • About Humility and How One should Despise Himself and Think Himself Lower than Every Person (Syriac)
      • About the Battle with the Passion of Fornication (Syriac)
      • About Acceptable Repentance and How it is Right for Us to Return Truly (Syriac)
      • About the Fathers Working Miracles (Syriac) 
      • About the Greatness of the Preeminent Way of Solitude (Syriac)
    • Part 2: Ascetic Commentary and Common Stories (Syriac) (=BHO 864-66)
      • Questions and Answers about Holy Disciplines (Syriac) 
      • Here there ends 1000 Questions and Answers in the Third Division of Palladius (Syriac)
      • Further Examples for the Weak and the Idle and for Those Who cannot Care for Themselves (Syriac)
      • Another Toward the Lovers of Vainglory and Those Becoming Proud of Their Righteousness (Syriac)
      • Toward that One Who is not Careful with His Tongue (Syriac)
      • Another Toward Those Who have Authority over Evil Thoughts yet Evil Deliberations Come to Mind (Syriac)
      • Another Toward That One who cannot Withhold Himself from Anger and Wrath and Who Holds a Grudge in His Heart against a Brother (Syriac)
      • Another Toward the Variety of the Evil Will of People, Those Who Reject the Benevolence Done to Them (Syriac)
      • The Counsels of Admonition (Syriac)
      • Further Questions of the Brothers and the Answer of the Words of the Elders Who were Exceedingly Beautiful and Praiseworthy (Syriac)
      • Another about Martinianus (Syriac)
      • Further Questions about the Vision of the Mind (Syriac)
    • Part 3: A Few Examples (Syriac) (=BHO 864-66)
      • Another about John of Antioch (Syriac)
      • Another about John of Calybita (John Bar Malche) (Syriac) (=BHO 498-99)
    • Appendix
      • Another Praise of the Monks of Egypt Done by Bishop John of Constantinople (John Chrysostom) (Syriac)
      • Another Story of the Fathers (of Abraham of Nathpar) (Syriac)
      • Variants (Syriac)

• P. Bedjan, Ed., Histoire de Mar-Jabalaha, de trois autres patriarches, d'un prêtre et de deux laïques, nestoriens. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1895. [Back to Top] 

  • ​Mar Yahbalaha and Rabban Sawma (= BHO 389)
  • Mar Aba (= BHO 595) (GT) (Letter of Mar Aba)
  • Mar Sabrisho' (= BHO 1032)
  • Mar Denha (= BHO 252)
  • Mar Grigor (= BHO 353)
  • Iazdapnah (= BHO 431, 432)
  • Georgius the Priest (= BHO 323 1,2)

 

• ​​E. W. Brooks, Vitae virorum apud Monophysitas celeberrimorum [textus]. Harrassowitz: Leipzig, 1907. [Back to Top]

  • ​Abba Isaiah (= BHO 550)
  • Peter the Iberian (= BHO 956)
  • Theodosios, Bishop of Jerusalem (= BHO 1178)
  • John of Tella (= BHO 524)

 

• E. W. Brooks, Ed., “John of Ephesus: Lives of the Eastern Saints (I)”, in Patrologia Orientalis, Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1923, pp. 1-307. [Back to Top]

  • Table of Contents

  • M. Reed, “John of Ephesus”. 2015.

• E. W. Brooks, Ed., “John of Ephesus. Lives of the Eastern Saints (II)”, in Patrologia Orientalis, Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1924, pp. 513-698.

  • Table of Contents

  • M. Reed, “John of Ephesus”. 2015.

• E. W. Brooks, Ed., “John of Ephesus: Lives of the Eastern Saints (III)”, in Patrologia Orientalis, Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1926, pp. 151-285.

  • M. Reed, “John of Ephesus”. 2015.

  • Table of Contents

1. ​Life of Habib
2. Life of Z’ura
3. Life of John the Nazirite
4. Lives of Abraham and Maro
5. Lives of Simeon and Sergius
6. Life of Paul the Anchorite
7. Life of Abraham the Recluse
8. Life of Addai the chorepiscopus
9. Life of Mare of Beth Urtaye
10. Life of Simeon the Bishop
11. Life of Harfat
12. Lives of Mary and Euphemia
13. Lives of Thomas and Stephen the notaries and syncelli of Mare of Amid
14. Life of Abbi
15. Lives of Two Monks
16. Life of Simeon the Mountaineer
17. Of a stranger who would not give his name
18. Of a monk who left a convent without being released
19. Life of Zacharias
20. Of a monk from the same convent as Zacharias and about Sound Training
21. Life of Thomas the Armenian
22. Lives of Addai and Abraham
23. Life of Simeon the Solitary
24. Life of John of Thella
25. Life of John of Hephaestopolis
26. Life of Thomas of Damascus
27. Life of Susan the Virgin
28. Life of Mary the anchorite
29. Life of Malkha the mendicant and stranger
30. Life of Elijah of Dara
31. Lives of Elijah and Theodore
32. Of a monk who stole
33. Life of Hala
34. Life of Simeon the Scribe
35. Of the Amidene convents
36. Life of Mare the Solitary
37. (missing)
38. Life of Aaron
39. Life of Leontius
40. Life of Abraham the presbyter
41. Lives of Bassian and Romanus
42. Lives of Mar, Sergius, and Daniel
43. Lives of four deacons
44. Life of Tribunus
45. Life of Isaac
46. Life of Paul of Antioch
47. Of the refugees in Constantinople
48. Lives of five patriarchs
49. Life of James
50. Lives of James and Theodore
51. Life of Kashish
52. Lives of two Antiochenes
53. Life of Priscus
54. Life of Caesaria
55. Lives of John and Sosiana
56. Lives of Peter and Photius
57. Life of Theodore the castrensis
58. History of the Convent of John Urtaya
59. Appendix: Spurious life of James
60. Appendix: translation of the relics of James

 

• E. A. W. Budge, Ed., The Book of Paradise, Being the Histories and Sayings of the Monks and Ascetics of the Egyptian Desert by Palladius, Hieronymus and Others. The Syriac Texts, according to the Recension of ‘Anân-Îshô‘ of Bêth ‘Âbhê, vol. 1, 2 vol. London: W. Drugulin, 1904. [Back to Top]

  • M. Reed, “Thomas of Marga”. 2015.

• E. A. W. Budge, Ed., The Book of Paradise, Being the Histories and Sayings of the Monks and Ascetics of the Egyptian Desert by Palladius, Hieronymus and Others. The Syriac Texts, according to the Recension of ‘Anân-Îshô‘ of Bêth ‘Âbhê, vol. 2, 2 vol. London: W. Drugulin, 1904. [Back to Top]

  • M. Reed, “Thomas of Marga”. 2015.

 

• F. C. Burkitt, Ed., Euphemia and the Goth with the Acts of Martyrdom of the Confessors of Edessa. London: Williams & Norgate, 1913. [Back to Top]

 

• J. - B. Chabot, “Histoire de Jésus-Sabran, Écrite par Jésus-Yab d'adiabène, publiée d'après le ms. syr. CLXI de la Bibliothèque Vaticane”, Nouvelles archives des missions scientifiques et littéraires, vol. 7, pp. 485-584, 1897. [Back to Top]

  • Cf. BHO 451

 

• J. - B. Chabot, Ed., La légende de Mar Bassus, martyr persan, suivie de l’histoire de la fondation de son couvent à Apamée, d’après un manuscrit de la Bibliothèque Nationale. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1893. [Back to Top]

  • Cf. BHO 174

 

• J. - B. Chabot, “Le livre de la Chasteté composé par Jésusdenah, Évêque de Baçrah”, École Française de Rome. Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire, vol. 16, pp. 225-292, 1896. [Back to Top]

  • M. Reed, “Isho'dnah”. 2015.

 

• J. - B. Chabot, Ed., Documenta ad origenes monophysitarum illustrandas. Louvain: L. Durbecq, 1907. [Back to Top]

  • Table of Contents

    • I. Synodal Letter of Theodosius of Alexandria, the Patriarch, to Severus, Patriarch of Antioch (Syriac)
    • II. Synodal Letter of Severus to Theodosius (Syriac)
    • III. Letter of Theodosius of Alexandria against Tritheites (Syriac)
    • IV. Homily (attached to the prior letter) delivered in Constinople by the same Theodosius, on the right faith, that is, what is not permitted to profess on the number of essences, or natures, in the Trinity; and that one from the Trinity, the Divine Word was incarnate–not the Father, nor the Holy Spirit (Syriac)
    • V. Letter of Theodosius containing five ecclesiastical canons on the same argument (Syriac)
    • VI. A copy of signatures made by the priests dwelling in Constantinople who profess to adhere to the doctrine of Theodosius (Syriac)
    • VII. The Letter of Theodosius to Jacob Burd'oyo [Baradae], Qonon of Tarsus, Eugenius of Seleucia in Isauria, and other eastern bishops (Syriac)
    • VIII. Letter of Theodosius to the eastern bishops on the instution of Paul the Patriarch of Antioch in place of Sergius (Syriac)
    • IX. The letter written by the eastern bishops (Jacob, Eugenius, Eunomius) to Patriarch Theodosius (Syriac) 
    • X. Letter of Theodore, an eastern bishop, to Paul, the Patriarch of Antioch (Syriac)
    • XI. Letter of Patriarch Theodosius to the orthodox bishops of the east (Syriac)
    • XII. The synodal letter of Paul, the Patriarch of Antioch, to Theodosius the Patriarch of Alexandria (Syriac)
    • XIII. The synodal letter of Theodosius to Paul (Syriac)
    • XIV. Letter of many eastern archimandrites to Theodosius of Alexandria (Syriac)
    • XV. Letter of the eastern archimandrites to Paul of Antioch (Syriac)
    • XVI. The first Ἀνατολικόν of Theodosius of Alexandria to Paul of Antioch (Syriac)
    • XVII. The second Ἀνατολικόν of Theodosius of Alexandria to Paul of Antioch (Syriac)
    • XVIII. The third Ἀνατολικόν of Theodosius of Alexandria to Paul of Antioch (Syriac)
    • XIX. The letter of Theodosius to John, Leonidus, and Joseph, bishops of Egypt (Syriac)
    • XX. Letter of Theodosius to Theodore (Syriac)
    • XXI. Letter of Theodosius to the people of Alexandria (Syriac)
    • XXII. Letter of Aretas the Patrician to Jacob Burd'oyo [Baradae] (Syriac)
    • XXIII. Letter of Jacob Burd'oyo [Baradae] to Eunomius the bishop (Syriac)
    • XXIV. Letter of the orthodox bishops of Constantinople to the orthodox bishops, archimandrites, presbyters, deacons, subdeacons, readers and all the faithful people of the east (Syriac)
    • XXV. Copy of the συνδοκτικοῦ (or pact) made between Alexandria and the imperial city, between the orthodox bishops and the supporters of Qonon (Syriac)
    • XXVI. Second copy of the allocutions, or προσφωνήσεως of those living in Constantinople between the orthodox bishops and the supports of Qonon and Eugenius (Syriac)
    • XXVII. Copy of the anathemas against John Grammaticus (Philoponus) (Syriac)
    • XXVIII. First copy of the συνδοκτικοῦ from the eastern archimandrites made after the death of Patriarch Theodosius (Syriac)
    • XXIX. Letter of Bishops Jacob and Theodore to the orthodox monks (Syriac)
    • XXX. Second copy of the συνδοκτικοῦ made by the eastern archimandrites (Syriac)
    • XXXI. Letter of many of the eastern archimandrites to Bishop Jacob (Syriac)
    • XXXII. Response of Patriarch Paul to Bishops Jacob and Theodore (Syriac)
    • XXXIII. Response of Jacob and Theodore to Patriarch Paul (Syriac)
    • XXXIV. Letter of the eastern archimandrites to the orthodox bishops and clerics living in Constantinople (Syriac)
    • XXXV. Letter of Jacob to Qonon and Eugenius (Syriac)
    • XXXVI. Letter of Jacob to John of Ephesus and the other bishops of the east (Syriac)
    • XXXVII. Letter of the eastern orthodox bishops to the orthodox bishops living in Constantinople (Syriac)
    • XXXVIII. Letter by the orthodox bishops to the orthodox of various eparchies (Syriac)
    • XXXIX. Letter of the orthodox bishops to the clarics and people of Arabia (Syriac)
    • XL. Letter of the people of Arabia to the orthodox bishops and clerics (Syriac)
    • XLI. The solution to the objections (which John Claudus, fomerly archimandrite of the Mar Bassus monastery, proposed to John Saba) about the election of Paul the Patriarch of Antioch, drafted by Sergius the recluse (Syriac)
    • XLII. Synodal letter of Theodore the Patriarch of Alexandria to Paul, the Patriarch of Antioch (Syriac)
    • XLIII. Synodal letter of Paul of Antioch to Theodore of Alexandria (Syriac)

 

• W. Cureton, History of the Martyrs of Palestine by Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea, discovered in a very ancient Syriac Manuscript. London; Paris: Williams & Norgate; C. Borrani, 1861. [Back to Top]

 

• H. Feige, Die Geschichte des Mâr ‘Abhdîšô‘ und seines Jüngers Mâr Qardagh. Kiel: C.F. Haeseler, 1890. [Back to Top] 

  • Cf. BHO 555

 

• I. Gildemeister, Ed., Acta S. Pelagiae. Bonn: Adolph Marcus, 1879. [Back to Top]

  • Cf. BHO 919

 

• H. G. Kleyn, Ed., Het Leven van Johannes van Tella door Elias: Syrische tekst en Nederlandsche vertaling. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1882. [Back to Top]

  • Cf. BHO 524

  • Cf. E. W. Brooks, Vitae virorum apud Monophysitas celeberrimorum [textus]. Harrassowitz: Leipzig, 1907.

 

• P. de Lagarde, Reliquiae Iuris Ecclesiastici Antiquissimae, Syriace. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1856. [Back to Top]

 

• P. de Lagarde, Ed., Analecta Syriaca. London: Williams & Norgate, 1858. [Back to Top]

  • Read Cowper's review for partial translations of some of these texts:
    • B. H. Cowper, “Analecta Syriaca [Review]”, Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record, vol. 8.16, pp. 345-359, 1859.
  • Sixtus/Xystus, Bishop of Rome, Select Words (Gnomai)
  • Gregory the Wonder Worker, From his homily to Gainos, on that the soul is simple and is not made up of separated parts; it is not compound and it is indissoluble.  For this reason, it is incorruptible and immortal
  • Julius, Bishop of Rome, A Letter
  • Hippolytos, Commentary on Daniel the Prophet
  • Excerpts from Diodore of Tarsus
  • Theodore of Mopsuestia, Excerpt from his book On the Incarnation
  • George, Bishop of the Arab Tribes, Letter to Joshua the Recluse, in answer to Questions
  • Aristotle, On the World, to Alexander (Translated by Sergios of Reshayna)
  • Socrates, On the Soul
  • Isocrates, To Demonikos
  • Plutarch, On exercise
  • Plutarch, On Passion
  • Pythagoras, Sentences
  • Diklios (Diocles?) the Wise, A writing
  • Vita of Alexander the King of the Macedonians

 

• T. J. Lamy, Ed., “Acta Beati Abrahae Kidunaiae Monachi”, Analecta Bollandiana, vol. 10, pp. 10-49, 1891. [Back to Top]

  • Cf. BHO 16–17

 

• A. S. Lewis, Acta Mythologica Apostolorum Transcribed from an Arabic Ms. in the Convent of Deyr-es-Suriani, Egypt, and from Mss. in the Convent of St Catherine, on Mount Sinai. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1904. [Back to Top]

  • Palimpsest Fragments of the Acts of Judas Thomas (Syriac) (ET) (= BHO 1204 1,2)

 

• A. S. Lewis and Gibson, M. D., Eds., Palestinian Syriac Texts from Palimpsest Fragments in the Taylor-Schechter Collection. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1900. [Back to Top]

 

• A. S. Lewis, Apocrypha Syriaca: The Protevangelium Jacobi and Transitus Mariae, with Texts from the Septuagint, the Corân, the Peshitta, and from a Syriac Hymn in a Syro-Arabic Palimpsest of the Fifth and Other Centuries. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1902. [Back to Top] 

 

• A. S. Lewis, Ed., Select Narratives of Holy Women from the Syro-Antiochene or Sinai Palimpsest as Written above the Old Syriac Gospels by John the Stylite, of Beth-Mari-Qanûn in A.D. 778. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1900. [Back to Top]

  • Eugenia (Syriac) (ET) (=BHO 282)
  • Mary = Marinus (Marina) (Syriac) (ET) (= BHO 697)
  • Euphrsyne (Syriac) (ET) (= BHO 289)
  • Onesima (Syriac) (ET) (= BHO 814)
  • Drusis (Syriac) (ET) (= BHO 265)
  • Barbara (Syriac) (ET) (= BHO 133)
  • Mary (slave of Tertullius) (Syriac) (ET) (= BHO 682)
  • Irene (Syriac) (ET) (= BHO 538)
  • Euphemia (Syriac) (ET) (= BHO 287)
  • Sophia (Syriac) (ET) (= BHO 1084)
  • Cyprian and Justa (Syriac) (ET) (= BHO 229)
  • Hymn of Mar Ephrem (Syriac) (ET)

 

• G. Mösinger and Zingerle, P., Eds., Monumenta Syriaca ex Romanis codicibus collecta (I), vol. 1, 2 vol. Paris; London: Maisonneuve; Williams and Norgate, 1869. [Back to Top]

 

• G. Mösinger and Zingerle, P., Eds., Monumenta Syriaca ex Romanis codicibus collecta (II), vol. 2, 2 vol. Oeneponti: Academic Library of Wagnerianis, 1878. [Back to Top]

 

• F. Nau, Ed., “Jean Rufus. Évêque de Maïouma: Plérophories”, in Patrologia Orientalis, Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1912, pp. 5-206. [Back to Top]

  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
    • The Manuscripts
    • The Author
    • The Goal of the Work
    • Literary History
    • The Sources
    • Style
    • Complementary Texts and Tables
    • Sigla
  • Plerophories [French Translation and Syriac are on the same page]
    • 1-2) Against Nestorius and Marcian
    • 3-4) Against Pulcherius and Juvenal
    • 5-6) The prediction of Pelagius
    • 7) The prediction of Elladios
    • 8) The prediction and death of the monk, Zeno
    • 9) The vision of Abba Innocentius
    • 10) Miracles under Marcianus
    • 11) The fire in the church of the Ascension
    • 12-13) The prophecies of Isaiah and of Zeno
    • 14-15) On Dioscorus and Timothy Aelurus  
    • 16) On the monastery of Juvenal
    • 17) Juvenal pays a visit to the solitaries
    • 18) Miracle at the pool of Bethesda
    • 19) The prayer of Peter the Iberian
    • 20) The vision of Paul of Ganta
    • 21) The vision of Pamrepios [Panopropios]
    • 22) The history of Peter of Titopolis
      • The Letter of St. Peter the Iberian
    • 23) Against Basil of Seleucia
    • 24) Vision of Stephen 
    • 25) Visions of Romanus
    • 26) On Timothy Aelurus
    • 27) Against Emperor Marcian
    • 28-29) Against Chalcedon 
    • 30) The apparition of Jacob
    • 31) The prediction of Heliodorus
    • 32) Revelation about the death of Emperor Theodosius
    • 33) The first recounting of the death of Nestorius
    • 34) Potamon predicts the death of Proterius
    • 35) Basil of Antioch wanted to tell off Nestorius
    • 36) Anecdote against Nestorius
      • An extract of the history of Timothy Aelurus on the death of Nestorius
    • 37) The vision about the Trinity
    • 38) Narrative on the Eucharist
    • 39) The history of Claudius of Eleutheropolis
    • 40-41) Against Juvenal 
    • 42) Peter the Iberian avoided being ordained by Juvenal
    • 43) The vision of Miqa
    • 44) The history of Bishop Epiphanius of Urbicia
    • 45) Against Theodore of Mopsuestia
    • 46-47) Trials by fire 
    • 48) On the monk, Epiphanius of Afta
    • 49) Peter the Iberian and Pior
    • 50) The visions of Pior and of Lucius
    • 51) The vision of Uribicia
    • 52) The history of Leontius, the Bishop of Ashkalon
    • 53) The apparition of three suns (parhelion)
    • 54) The revelation of the death of Bishop Theodosius
    • 55) On the small number of the Jacobites
    • 56) The monks go to Juvenal and Peter the Iberian protects Theodosius
    • 57) The vision of Theodosius
    • 58) Against Juvenal
    • 59) Palinodes of the adversaries of the Jacobites
    • 60) Against the Bishops
    • 61-62) The Word has only one nature
    • 63) Against Chalcedon
    • 64) The marvel in favor Marcian, the layman of Pamphylia
    • 65a) The vision of Isaiah on Peter the Iberian
    • 65b-68) The visions of Timothy Aelurus
    • 69) The vision of Proterius
    • 70) The vision of Evagrius
    • 71) The conversion of Anastius of Edessa
    • 72) The vision of Ga'ayon
    • 73) The vision of Zechariah the Scholastic
    • 74) The vision of Thamision
    • 75) On the Holy Spirit
    • 76) The story of Peter the Iberian
    • 77-78) Eucharistic miracles 
    • 79) The apparition of St. Stephen
    • 80) The vision against Chalcedon
    • 81) The Jacobite profession of faith
    • 82) The vision of Zoe [Zota] and the response of this one to Claudian, Bishop of Antalya
    • 83-84) Visions against Chalcedon 
    • 85) Against the Bishops, Amphilicus and Epiphanius
    • 86) The vision of Agathokleia
    • 87) Against Chalcedon
    • 88) On a solitary of Antioch
    • 89) Against Nonnus of Qennešrin
      • Against the Chalcedonians
  • ​Appendices
    • 90-91) An apparition St. John the Baptist
    • 92) An apparition of Jacob
    • 93) An apparition of the martyr, Marcellus
    • 94) Dionysius bar Salibi on Nestorius
    • 95) On the monk, Zeno
    • 96) On Isaiah the Egyptian
    • 97) On Severus of Antioch
    • 98-99) On Theodosius the Younger and the monks
    • 100) On a miracle of the Eucharist
    • 101) Trial by fire
    • 102) On the monastery of Seridos
    • 103) On Silvanus
    • 104) On an apparition of St. Epiphanius
    • 105) On Patriarch Amos
    • Errata
  • Tables
    • Alphabetic Syriac table of proper names
    • Alphabetic Syriac table of foreign or noteworthy words
    • Alphabetic Greek table of proper names and noteworthy words
    • Table of references to Scripture
    • Table of manuscripts used
    • Alphabetic table of subjects
    • Table of contents

• J. J. Overbeck, Ed., Ephraemi Syri, Rabulae episcopli Edesseni, Balaei aliorumque Opera selecta: E codicibus syriacis manuscriptis in museo Britannico et bibliotheca Bodleiana asservatis primus editit. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1865. [Back to Top]

  • Intro
  • Variant Readings
  • Table of Contents
  • Ephrem (3-158). See M. Reed, Ed., “Ephrem”. 2015. 
  • Rabbula
    • Life (159-210)
    • Canons (210-12)
    • Warnings to Coenobites (212-15)
    • Precepts and Warnings to Priests and Rulers (215-222)
    • Epistle to Andrew of Samosata (222-23)
    • Epistle of Andrew to Rabbula (223-25)
    • Excerpt of an Epistle to Cyril (225-26)
    • Epistle of Cyril to Rabbula (226-30)
    • From an Epistle to Gamalinus (230-31)
    • From the same Epistle (231-39)
    • Homily which Rabbula of Edessa Spoke in the Church of Constantinople before all the People (239-44)
    • Supplications of the First Order (245-50)
  • Balai
    • Hymns on the Dedication of the Recent Church Built in the City of Kennesrin (251-59)
    • Five Hymns on Bishop Acacius (259-70)
    • First Homily on Joseph (270-94)
    • Eight Homilies on Joseph (294-331)
    • Rogations (331-35)
    • Rogations (335-36)
    • Song on the Grave of Aaron (336)
  • Additions
    • Ephremic material on Paradise and the baptism of Constantine (339-62). See M. Reed, Ed., “Ephrem”. 2015. 
    • Rabbula: Supplications of the Fourth Order (362-70)
    • Rabbula: Supplications of the Seventh Order (370-79)
    • Isaac the Great: On the Crucifixion (379-82)
    • A Prayer of Jacob of Sarug which he Prayed for himself while he was Still Young (382-84)
    • A Memra of Mar Jacob the Teacher: On Virginity and Fornication and the Marriage of the Just (384-92)
    • A Memra of Mar Jacob the Teacher: On the 318 Bishops who were Gathered in Nicaea (392-408)
    • John, Metropolitan of Dara: On Holy Matrimony (409-14)
    • Gregory Bar Hebraeus: On the Origin of the Syriac Church, or the Beginning of the Third Part of the Chronicle (414-24)
    • A Hymn of Simeon Bar Sabba'e (424)

 

• A. Palmer, Monk and mason on the Tigris frontier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. [Back to Top]

(Linked here by permission of the author, who holds the copyright.)

 

• A. Palmer, Ed., Tašʻita d-qadiša Mar Šmuʾel w-Mar Šemʻon w-Mar Gabriʾel / maṣḥa wa-sriṭa men nuske ʻatiqe b-yad ʼAndrʼos Baʼlmar. Holland: Monastery of Mar Ephrem, 1983. [Back to Top]

 

• P. Peeters, Ed., Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis. Brussels: Society of Bollandists, 1910. [Back to Top]

  • For a more thorough analysis of this resource, see M. Reed, “Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis”. 2015.

 

• G. Phillips, Ed., The Doctrine of Addai, the Apostle, now First Edited in a Complete Form in the Original Syriac, with an English Translation and Notes. London: Trübner & co., 1876. [Back to Top]

  • Cf. BHO 24

 

• J. B. Pitra and Martin, J. P. P., Eds., Analecta sacra spicilegio solesmensi parata, vol. 4. Paris: Publico Galliarum Typographeo, 1883. [Back to Top]

  • Clement of Rome, From his Second Epistle to the Corinthians
  • Polycarp
  • Justin Martyr, On the Orthodox Faith
  • Irenaeus of Lyon
  • Melito, On Faith
  • Hippolytos, Fragments
    • ​From his Commentary on the Song of Songs
    • Also from his Commentary on the Song of Songs
    • From his Commentary on Ezekiel
    • From his Commentary on Daniel
    • Another Excerpt from his Commentary on Daniel
    • Scholion on the Psalms
    • Fragment from his Commentary on Matthew
    • On the Pascha
    • On the Calculation of the Fourteenth of the Pascha
    • Fragment on the Epiphany
    • On the Resurrection, to Mamma [Mammcea] the Empress
  • Sextus Julius Africanus, Fragment on the Appearance of Moses and Elijah to our Lord
  • Cyprian, Fragments
    • ​Letter to Quintus
    • Letter to the Bishop Filus
    • From his Homily on Alms
    • Fragment from a letter to Quintus
    • The Patriarch Severos on Cyprian
    • Another Excerpt from Severos on Cyprian
  • Gregory the Wonderworker, Fragments
    • ​On Faith, which is in Parts
    • From the Treasures of Faith, which is in parts
    • On Faith, Step by Step
    • On Faith
    • To Philagrios, On Homoousios
    • Treatise to Theopompos, On the Passibility and Impassibility of God
    • On the Resurrection
    • On the Annunciation of the Bearer of God
    • Homily of St. John on the Baptism of our Lord in the Jordan River
    • Unidentified Fragments
  • Dionysios of Alexandria, Excerpts from Letters, including letters to several bishops of Rome and to Paul of Samosata
  • Excerpts on the Condemnation of Paul of Samosata
  • Peter of Alexandria, Fragments
  • Alexander of Alexandria, Fragments
  • Methodios, Philosopher, Bishop and Martyr, Fragments
  • Eustathios of Antioch, Fragments
  • Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis, Homily on Virginity
  • Canons of the Council of Ancyra
  • Canons of the Council of Neo-Cesarea
  • Council of Nicaea, History and Canons
  • Letter of Dionysios the Areopagite to Timothy, concerning the martyrdom of Peter and Paul

 

• R. Raabe, Ed., Die Geschichte des Dominus Mâri, eines Apostels des Orients. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1893. [Back to Top]

  • Cf. BHO 610, 1, 2

  • Cf. J. - B. Abbeloos, Ed., Acta Sancti Maris, Assyriae, Babyloniae ac Persidis seculo I apostoli, Syriace sive Aramaice, juxta manuscriptum Alqoschianum adjectis aliorum codicum lectionibus variantibus versione latina et annotationibus illustrata. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1885.

 

• I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Documenta varia, vol. 1, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1904. [Back to Top]

  • ​Epistle of Jacob, Bp of Jerusalem, to Quadratus, concerning what Tiberius Caesar ordered concerning the Jews who crucified Christ and covered up his resurrection
  • The Discovery of the Head of Paul the Apostle
  • The Account that is Placed at the Beginning of the Book of Paul the Apostle
  • The Martyrdom of Paul the Apostle that Took Place in Rome at the Hand of Nero
  • The Placing on of Hands that has been Passed Down in the World, Person by Person, from the Apostles
  • Ephrem, On Types that Illustrate the Trinity
  • Ephrem, An Alphabetical Acrostic of Admonitions
  • Ephrem, Memra against Bar Daysan
  • Ephrem, Sogyatha on the Soul
  • Jacob of Edessa, A Letter to John the Stylite [of Litarb], answering questions
  • Isaac the Teacher, The Conclusion of a Memra on Faith
  • Isaac the Teacher, Another Fragment
  • Isaac the Teacher, Another Fragment
  • A letter which was written by the holy bishops of the Orthodox to the monks of the congregation of Amid and all their jurisdiction [Against Julian of Halicarnassus]
  • Daniel of Salah, Book of the Interpretation of the Psalms
  • Athanasios Gamolo, Letter to the Monks of Mar Mattai
  • A Narrative that was Discovered in the Monastery of Mar Mattai
  • Life of Isaac of Nineveh
  • Life of John of Dalyatha, from his Monastery, in Qardu
  • Life of John bar Penkaye

 

• I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Apocryphi hypomnemata Domini Nostri, seu, Acta Pilati, vol. 2, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1908. [Back to Top]

  • ​Records (hypomnemata) of our Lord, Jesus Christ
  • The Letter which Pilate wrote to Herod the Tetrarch
  • Letter which Herod wrote to Pilate
  • Letter which Theodore wrote to Pilate
  • Longinus to Caesar Augustus
  • Ursinius, Fragments

 

• I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Vetusta documenta liturgica, vol. 3, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1908. [Back to Top]

  • ​Rule for How a Bishop Should Enter a City
  • Chapters Which were Written by the Easterners who Presented Their Questions to the Holy Fathers and who had Answers in the Following Way[Liturgical Questions and Answers]
  • Rite and Canons of the Consecration of a Holy Church
  • Anthimios, Bishop of Constantinople, Letter to Jacob [Baradaeus], Bishop of Edessa
  • Severos of Antioch, From Cathedral Homily 125, concerning, "Holy are You, God, Holy are you, Almighty, etc."
  • Severos of Antioch, From Cathedral Homily 84, which is about Basil the Great and Gregory
  • Severos of Antioch, From Cathedral Homily 74
  • Severos of Antioch, From Cathedral Homily 92, Concerning the Ninth Hour on the Friday after Pentecost

 

• I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Documenta de antiquis haeresibus, vol. 4, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1909. [Back to Top]

  • Anonymous work on heresies
  • Severos of Antioch, Homily 119, concerning the diputation against the Roman 

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• I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu, Collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis, vol. 5, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1909.  [Back to Top]

 

• E. Sachau, Ed., Inedita Syriaca: Eine Sammlung syrischer Übersetzungen von Schriften griechischer Profanliteratur, mit einem Anhang, aus den Handschriften des Brittischen Museums herausgegeben. Vienna: Der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses in Halle, 1870.  [Back to Top]

  • Lucian, On that one should not accept slanders against friends
  • Themistios, On Virtue, that is, the excellence of the soul
  • Themistios, On Love
  • Plato, Definitions
  • Plato, Command to his Student
  • Theano, The Counsel of the Pythagorean Philosopher Theano
  • Sayings of the Philosophers concerning the Soul
  • Choice Statements of the Philosophers about Upright Living (from Isocrates and Menander)
  • Counsels of the Philosophers
  • Life of Secundus the Silent Philosopher
  • Fragments of Galen 
    • Ars medica, 23–34, 28–31
    • Alimentorum facultatibus II.58-61
  • Sergios of Resh’ayna, On How One Can Know the Activity of the Moon, According to the Doctrine of the Astronomers
  • Sergios of Resh’ayna, Exposition on the Movement of the Sun
  • Severos Sebokht, A Chapter on the Inhabited and Uninhabited Earth and About the Order of those who Dwell on its Entire Circumference, Above and Below

 

• F. Schulthess, Probe einer syrischen Version der Vita St. Antonii. Leipzig: W. Druchlin, 1894.  [Back to Top]

  • (= BHO 68, 1, 2)

 

• P. Zingerle, Chrestomathia Syriaca. Rome: Society of the Propagation of the Faith, 1871.  [Back to Top] 

 

Individual Saints' Lives

(in alphabetical order by name of saint)

 

• Aaron of Sarug (d. 337)  [Back to Top]

  • F. Nau and Leroy, L., Les légendes syriaques d’Aaron de Saroug, de Maxime et Domèce, d’Abraham, maître de Barsôma, et de l’empereur Maurice; Les miracles de Saint Ptolémée, no. 5. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1910.
    • See pages 703-749.
    • (= BHO p. 273)

 

• Abraham of Antioch (d. 406) [Back to Top]

  • F. Nau and Leroy, L., Les légendes syriaques d’Aaron de Saroug, de Maxime et Domèce, d’Abraham, maître de Barsôma, et de l’empereur Maurice; Les miracles de Saint Ptolémée, no. 5. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1910. 
    • See pages 768-773.
    • (= BHO, p. 274)

 

• Abraham Qidunaya (6th century) [Back to Top]

  • T. J. Lamy, Ed., “Acta Beati Abrahae Kidunaiae Monachi”, Analecta Bollandiana, vol. 10, pp. 10-49, 1891. 
  • (= BHO 16–17)

 

• Addai the Apostle [Back to Top]

  • G. Phillips, Ed., The Doctrine of Addai, the Apostle, now First Edited in a Complete Form in the Original Syriac, with an English Translation and Notes. London: Trübner & co., 1876.
    • (= BHO 24)

 

• Ahudemmeh (d. 575) [Back to Top]

  • F. Nau, Ed., Histoires d’Ahoudemmeh et de Marouta, métropolitains jacobites de Tagrit et de l’Orient (VIe et VIIe siècles), suivies du traité d’Ahoudemmeh sur l’homme. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1909.
    • See pp. 15–51.
  • (= BHO 35)

 

• Alexius, the Man of God (Fifth Century) [Back to Top]

  • A. Amiaud, Ed., La légende syriaque de Saint Alexis, l’homme de Dieu. Paris: F. Vieweg, 1889.
  • (BHO 36-40) (text)
  • (BHO 41-42) (text)

 

• Anthony (d. 356) [Back to Top]

  • P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Quartius, vol. 4, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1894.
    • See pp. 1-121. 
  • ( =BHO 68)

  • Other editions

    • F. Schulthess, Probe einer syrischen Version der Vita St. Antonii. Leipzig: W. Druchlin, 1894.
      • See pp. 1-19.
    • Fragments in A. S. Lewis and Gibson, M. D., Eds., Palestinian Syriac Texts from Palimpsest Fragments in the Taylor-Schechter Collection. London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1900.
      • See pp. 89-104.

 

• The Doctrine of the Apostles [Back to Top]

  • W. Cureton, Ancient Syriac Documents Relative to the Earliest Establishment of Christianity in Edessa and the Neighbouring Countries, from the Year after Our Lord’s Ascension to the Beginning of the Fourth Century. Edinburg / London: Williams and Norgate, 1864.
    • English Translation 
    • Syriac Text
  • (= BHO 81)

 

• Apphianus/Appian (d. 306) [Back to Top]

  • P. Bedjan, Ed., Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum: Tomus Primus, vol. 1, 7 vol. Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1890.
    • See pp. 220-229
    • (= BHO 94)
  • J. S. Assemani, Ed., Acta sanctorum martyrum Orientalium et Occidentalium in duas partes distributa, adcedunt Acta S. Simeonis Stylitae, vol. 2, 2 vol. Rome: Joseph Collins, 1748.
    • Syriac Text 
    • French Translation 
    • (= BHO 95)

 

• Dionysios the Areopagite [Back to Top]

  • M. - A. Kugener, “Une autobiographie syriaque de Denys l’Aréopagite”, Oriens Christianus, vol. 1.7, pp. 292-339, 1907.
  • (= BHO 255a–255c)

 

• Ephrem the Syrian (d. 378) [Back to Top]

  • T. J. Lamy, Sancti Ephraem Syri hymni et sermones quos e codicibus Londinensibus, Parisiensibus et Oxoniensibus descriptos edidit, Latinitate donavit, variis lectionibus instruxit, notis et prolegomenis illustravit (2), vol. 2, 4 vol. Mechliniae: H. Dessain, 1890.
    • See cols. 3–89. 
    • (= BHO 269)
  • J. S. Assemani, Ed., Bibliotheca Orientalis, vol. 1, 3 vol. Rome: Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 1719.
    • See pp. 26–55.
    • (= BHO 270)

 

• Isaac of Nineveh (7th century) [Back to Top]

  • I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Documenta varia, vol. 1, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1904.
    • lomadh-gomal 
    • (= BHO 540)
  • J. S. Assemani, Ed., Bibliotheca Orientalis, vol. 1, 3 vol. Rome: Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 1719.
    • Arabic 
    • (= BHO 541)

 

• Jacob Baradaeus  (d. 578) [Back to Top]

  • 1. Vita:

    • J. P. N. Land, Ed., Joannis Episcopi Ephesi monophysitae scripta historica quotquot adhuc inedita supererant, vol. 2, 4 vol. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1868.
      • See pp. 364–383.
      • (= BHO 392)

  • 2. How Jacob Baradaeus’ Bones Were Taken from the Monastery of Casion by the Monks of Pesilta, by Kyriakos of Amid

    • M. - A. Kugener, Ed., Comment le corps de Jacques Baradée fut enlevé du couvent de Casion par les moines de Phesiltha, récit de Mar Cyriaque. Paris: A. Picard and Sons, 1902.
    • (= BHO 393)

 

• John Bar Aphtonia (d. 538) [Back to Top]

  • F. Nau, Ed., Vie de Jean bar Aphtonia: texte syriaque. Paris: A. Picard and Sons, 1902. 
    • See pp. 17–24.
    • (= BHO 497)

 

• John Bar Penkaye (7th century) [Back to Top]

  • I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Documenta varia, vol. 1, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1904. 
    • lomadh-he
    • (BHO 502)

 

• John of Dalyatha (8th century) [Back to Top]

  • I. E. Rahmani, Ed., Studia Syriaca, seu collectio documentorum hactenus ineditorum ex codicibus Syriacis: Documenta varia, vol. 1, 5 vol. Charfeh: Charfeh Patriarchal Seminary, 1904.
    • lomadh-dolath
    • (= BHO 510)

 

• John of Tella (d. 538) [Back to Top]

  • H. G. Kleyn, Ed., Het Leven van Johannes van Tella door Elias: Syrische tekst en Nederlandsche vertaling. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1882.
  • (= BHO 524)
  • E. W. Brooks, Vitae virorum apud Monophysitas celeberrimorum [textus]. Harrassowitz: Leipzig, 1907.
    • pp. 29-95 

 

• Maccabean Martyrs [Back to Top]

  • R. L. Bensly and Barnes, W. E., The Fourth Book of Maccabees and Kindred Documents in Syriac. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1895.
    • See pp. 104–115.
    • (= BHO, p. 276)

 

• Marutha (d. 649) [Back to Top]

  • F. Nau, Ed., Histoires d’Ahoudemmeh et de Marouta, métropolitains jacobites de Tagrit et de l’Orient (VIe et VIIe siècles), suivies du traité d’Ahoudemmeh sur l’homme. Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1909.
    • See pp. 61–96.
    • (= BHO 719)

 

• Qardag (d. 367) [Back to Top]

  • J. - B. Abbeloos, Ed., Acta Mar Kardaghi Assyriae praefecti, qui sub Sapore II martyr occubuit. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1890.
    • (= BHO 556)
  • H. Feige, Die Geschichte des Mâr ‘Abhdîšô‘ und seines Jüngers Mâr Qardagh. Kiel: C.F. Haeseler, 1890.