Standard abbreviation: Dorm. Luke
Other titles: none
Clavis numbers: ECCA 883
Category: Apocryphal Acts
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Status: unassigned
Citing this resource (using Chicago Manual of Style):
1. SUMMARY
Named historical figures and characters:
Geographical locations:
2. RESOURCES
2.1 Web Sites and Other Online Resources
“Luke the Evangelist.” Wikipedia.
“S00462: Luke, the Evangelist.” The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity.
2.2 Art and Iconography
Illustration of Luke in the Menologion of Basil II, Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1613, p. 120 (10th cent.)
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY
3.1 Manuscripts and Editions
3.1.1 Greek
3.1.1.1 The Travels and Perfection of the Holy Apostle Luke (BHG 992, 992b, 992c, 990y, 990z)
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Coisl. 121, fols. 10v–11r (1342) ~ Pinakes; Gallica
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 881, fols. 279r–280r (10th cent.)
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 1485, fols. 33r–34r (10th cent.)
Smyrna, Euaggelikē Scholē, A-04, item 28 (17th cent.) ~ Pinakes; destroyed
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chig. R.VI.39, fols. 115r–116v (12th cent.)
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1190, fols. 126r–127r (1542) (=BHG 992c)
Weimar, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Q.729, fols. 132r–134v (11th cent.) (=BHG 992b)
Meyer, Philipp. “Zwei bislang ungedruckte Enkomiun auf den Evangelisten Lukas.” Jahrbücher für protestantische Theologie 16 (1890): 423–34 (Greek text based on Smryna A-4 and Paris, Coisl. 121, pp. 428–31).
3.1.1.2 Dormition (BHG 990y)
Mount Athos, M. Megistes Lavras, Δ 50 (Eustratiades 0426), fols. 177r–178v (1039)
Ohrid, Naroden Muzej, 4, pp. 426–427 (10th cent.)
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 1468, fols. 148v–149r (11th cent.)
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 1485, fols. 34r–34v (10th cent.)
Mount Sinai, St. Catherine’s Monastery, gr. 497, fols. 172v–173v (10th/11th cent.)
3.1.1.3 Life and Dormition (BHG 990z)
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 544, fols. 101v, 92, 33 (11th cent.) ~ palimpsest
3.1.1.4 Menologion of Basil II (18 October)
Preliminary translation: Luke the evangelist, born in Great Antioch, a physician by profession and a painter, when he had come to Thebes of Macedonia during the reign of Emperor Tiberius due to persecution, met and conversed with the holy apostle Paul. Being one of the seventy apostles, he joined himself as a companion to the same apostle and together with him preached Christ; with eager spirit he cooperated in preaching and in the ministry of the Gospel alongside him. He first wrote the holy Gospel that bears his name to a certain prefect named Theophilus, who had believed in Christ, as dictated to him by the holy apostle Peter; then he wrote the Acts of the Apostles to the same Theophilus. After these things, he peacefully surrendered his soul to God. His sacred and precious relics were first buried in Thebes, later transferred from there to Constantinople, where they were laid to rest in the church of the Holy Apostles.
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1613, p. 120 (10th cent.) ~ Pinakes; BAV
Migne, Jacques-Paul. Patrologiae cursus completus: Series graeca. Vol. 117. Paris: Cerf, 1903 (Greek text with facing Latin translation, cols. 113–14).
3.1.1.5 Synaxarion of Constantinople
Hippolyte Delehaye, Synaxarinum Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae e códice Sirmondiano, nunc Berolinensi adiectis synaxariis selectis. Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1902 (pp. 147–48).
3.2 Modern Translations
3.3 General Works
Bolland, Jean et al., eds. Acta Sanctorum, Octobris. Vol. 8. Antwerp: P. Jacobs 1853 (pp. ?); 3rd ed. Paris: V. Palmé, 1870 (pp. 282–313).
Lipsius, Richard A. Die apokryphen Apostelgeschichten und Apostellegenden. 2 vols. in 3 parts. Braunschweig, 1883–1890 (see vol. 2.2:362–63).