Iohannis Baptista praecursor Domini, Prima inuentio et translatio capitis Emesam
Standard abbreviation: Invent. Bapt.
Other titles: none
Clavis numbers: ECCA 613
Category: Hagiography
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Citing this resource (using Chicago Manual of Style):
1. SUMMARY
Named historical figures and characters:
Geographical locations:
2. RESOURCES
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY
3.1 Manuscripts and Editions
3.1.1 Arabic (Garšūnī)
Jerusalem, Monastery of Saint Mark, 38 (199), fols. 434r–437v (1734)
3.1.2 Coptic: Invention of the Head of John the Baptist by Gesius and Isidorus, by Athanasius (Sahidic; BHO 485-486; CC202; PAThs entry)
CLM 733 (10th cent.; PAThs entry)
CLM 1738 (PAThs entry)
CLM 1739 (10th/11th cent.; PAThs entry)
CLM 1741 (1006/1007; PAThs entry)
SIUD.AA (989/990)
Steindorff, Georg. “Gesios und Isidoros: Drei sahidische Fragmente über die ‘Auffindung der Gebeine Johannes des Täufers.’” ZÄS 21 (1883): 137–58 (edition and German translation of CLM 1739).
3.1.3 Greek (BHG 839)
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 443, fols. 121, 37, 36, 125 (9th/10th cent.)
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 520, pp. 78–84 (10th/11th cent.)
C. Ducange, Traité historique du chef de S. Jean Baptiste (Paris, 1665), 208-215
Acta Sanctorum Iun. IV (1707), 716-718; 3a ed. V, 615-617
Patrologia Latina (Migne) 67, 420-424
Meliton in Νέα Σιών 27 (1932), 639b-643, 732-735
3.1.4 Greek (BHG 840)
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 1176, fols. 197v–203r (13th cent.)
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 520, pp. 84–96 (10th/11th cent.)
Combefis
C. Ducange, Traité historique du chef de S. Jean Baptiste (Paris, 1665), 215-229
Acta Sanctorum Iun. IV (1707), 724-728; 3a ed. V, 623-627
Patrologia Latina (Migne) 67, 424-430
Migne, Jacques-Paul. Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Latina. 217 vols. Paris, 1844–1864 (reprint of Combefis with Latin translation, vol. 67, cols. 432–54).
3.1.5 Latin (by Dionysius Exiguus)
Migne, Jacques-Paul. Patrologiae Cursus Completus. Series Latina. 217 vols. Paris, 1844–1864 (vol. 67, cols. 420-30).
3.2 Modern Translations
3.2.1 English
3.2.2 French
3.3 General Works
Dilley, Paul C. “The Invention of Christian Tradition: ‘Apocrypha,’ Imperial Policy and Anti-Jewish Propaganda.” GRBS 50 (2010): 586–615 (p. 597 n. 24).