Homilia de dormitione B. V. mariae, auctore Theodosio Alexandrino
Standard abbreviation: Hom. Dorm. Vir.
Other titles: On the Dormition of the Virgin
Clavis numbers: ECCA 514; CANT 135; CPG 7153
Category: Dormition, Pseudo-Apostolic Memoirs
Related literature: Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin, by Pseudo-Theophilus of Alexandria; Homily on the Virgin Mary and Her Birth, by Pseudo-Cyril of Jerusalem; Homily on the Dormition of the Virgin, by Evodius of Rome; Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin, by Pseudo-Cyriacus of Behnesa.
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1. SUMMARY
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2. RESOURCES
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY
3.1 Manuscripts and Editions
3.1.1 Arabic
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolic Vaticana,Var. ar. 698, fols. 85r–102r (1371)
Cairo, Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies, call no. not known (mentioned in William F. Macomber. Catalogue of the Christian Arabic Manuscripts of the Franciscan Center of Christian Oriental Studies, Muski, Cairo [Studia Orientalia Christiana; Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1984], 45).
González Casado, Pilar, ed. “Las relaciones linguisticas entre el siriaco y el arabe en textos religiosos arabes cristianos.” Dissertation. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2013 (text of Vat. ar. 698, pp. 243–65; Spanish trans., pp. 477–94).
3.1.2 Coptic (Bohairic) (BHO 671; CPC 0385; PAThs entry)
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolic Vaticana, Vat. copt. 61, fols. 122r–147v (=MACA.BH; PAThs entry) (9th–11th cent.) ~ DigiVatLib
MACA.EJ (PAThs entry):
pp. [1]–2, [39]–40, [43]–44, [45]–46, [49]–50: Cairo, Coptic Museum, Abu Maqar 9, 9Add i–iii
pp. [51]–52, [57]–58: Manchester, John Rylands Library, Copt. 441
p. [71]–72: Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, 1088 (Tischendorf XXVI), fol. 1
pp. [9]–10: Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, 1089 (Tischendorf XXVII), fol. 9
Chaîne, Marius. “Sermon de Théodose patriarche d’Alexandrie sur la dormition et l’assomption de la Vierge.” ROC 29 (1933/1934): 272–314 (complete text and French translation of Vat. copt. 61).
Crum, Walter E. “Hagiographica from Leipzig Manuscripts.” Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 29 (1907): 289–96, 301–307 (description of the Leipzig fragments, pp. 304–305).
Robinson, Forbes. Coptic Apocryphal Gospels. Translations Together with the Texts of Some of Them. TS 4.2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896 (incomplete text and English translation of Vat. copt. 61, pp. 90–127; readings from Rylands Copt. 441, p. 219).
Evelyn White, Hugh G. The Monasteries of the Wadi ‘n Natrûn. Part 1: New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926 (partial text and collation, with translation, of the Cairo fragments, pp. 60–62).
3.2 Modern Translations
3.2.1 English
Robinson, Forbes. Coptic Apocryphal Gospels. Translations Together with the Texts of Some of Them. TS 4.2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1896 (text and English translation of Vat. copt. 61, pp. 90–127).
Evelyn White, Hugh G. The Monasteries of the Wadi ‘n Natrûn. Part 1: New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926 (partial text and collation, with translation, of the Cairo fragments, pp. 60–62).
3.2.2 French
Chaîne, Marius. “Sermon de Théodose patriarche d’Alexandrie sur la dormition et l’assomption de la Vierge.” ROC 29 (1933/1934): 272–314 (complete text and French translation of Vat. copt. 61).
Jugie, Martin. La Mort et l’Assumption de la Sainte Vierge: Étude historico-doctrinale. Studi e Testi 114. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1944 (see pp. 127–33).
3.2.3 Italian
Erbetta, Mario. Gli apocrifi del Nuovo Testamento. 3 vols. Italy: Marietti, 1975–1981 (translation of the Bohairic text, vol. 1.2, pp. 582–592).
3.2.4 Spanish
Aranda Pérez, Gonzalo. Dormición de la Virgen. Relatos de la tradución copta. Apócrifos cristianos 2. Madrid: Editorial Ciudad Nueva, 1995 (pp. 177–228).
Bellet, Paulino. “Theodosio de Alejandría y su homilia copta sobre la Asunción de la Virgen.” Ephemerides Mariologicae 1 (1951): 243–66.
3.3 General Works
Esbroeck, Michel van. “L’Assumption de la Vierge dans un «Transitus» pseudo-basilien.” AnBoll 92 (1974): 126.
Lantschoot, Arnold van. “L’Assumption de la Sainte Vierge chez les Coptes.” Gregorianum 27 (1946): 493–526 (see pp. 504–506).
Shoemaker, Stephen. Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary’s Dormition and Assumption. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002 (pp. 57–63).
Suciu, Alin. The Berlin-Strausbourg Apocryphon: A Coptic Apostolic Memoir. WUNT 370. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017 (pp. 90–91).