Notitia de locis sanctorum apostolorum
Standard abbreviation: Notes Places Apost.
Other titles: none
Clavis numbers: ECCA 287
Category: Lists of Apostles and Disciples
Related literature: various apocryphal acts
Compiled by Brandon W. Hawk, Rhode Island College ([email protected])
Citing this resource (using Chicago Manual of Style): Hawk, Brandon W. “Notes about the Places of the Holy Apostles.” e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha. Accessed DAY MONTH YEAR. https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/notes-about-the-places-of-the-holy-apostles/.
Created January 2023. Current as of January 2024.
1. TRANSLATION
Although it might have circulated more widely, the text of Notes Places Apost. has been identified in a sole surviving manuscript (A) that contains both the Martyrologium Hieronymianum (which includes the text of the Notes within it) and the Calendar of Willibrord. These two works were separately copied and then combined into a single manuscript in the eighth century. The Calendar is a listing of saints’ feast days for the liturgical year, compiled by Willibrord (ca. 658–739), who was born in Northumbria, England, was educated in Ripon, lived for a time in a monastery in Ireland, went as a missionary to Frisia, and founded the Abbey of Echternach in 698.
Translation based on Schermann’s edition of the text from A, with modern dates added in parentheses, in consultation with the translation by Allen and Calder.
III Kalends of July (June 29), the feast of the apostles Saints Peter and Paul in Rome.
II Kalends of December (November 30), the feast of Saint Andrew the apostle in the city of Patras in the province of Achaea.
VI Kalends of January (December 27), the feast of the apostles Saints James the brother of the Lord and John the evangelist.
VIII Kalends of July (June 24), the feast of the Dormition of Saint John the apostle and evangelist in Ephesus.
XII Kalends of January (December 21), the feast of Saint Thomas the apostle in India and the translation of his body to Edessa.
VIII Kalends of August (July 25), the feast of Saint James the apostle, the brother of John the evangelist, in Jerusalem.
Kalends of May (May 1), the feast of Saint Philip the apostle in the city of Hierapolis in the province of Asia.
VIII Kalends of September (August 24), the feast of Saint Bartholomew the apostle, who was beheaded in India by order of King Astyages.
XI Kalends of October (September 21), the feast of Saint Matthew the apostle, who went into Persia.
V Kalends of November (October 28), the feast of the apostles Simon the Canaanite and Simon the Zealot, who were killed by the priests of the temples in the Persian city of Suanir.
2. RESOURCES
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY
3.1 Manuscripts and Editions
3.1.1 Latin (BHL 648)
A Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 10837, fol. 3r (8th cent.)
Delehaye, Hippolyte, Paul Peeters, and Maurice Coens, eds., Acta Sanctorum, Novembris Tom. II, Pars Posterior. Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1931 (p. 2).
Schermann, Theodor. Prophetarum vitae fabulosae, indices apostolorum discipulorumque Domini, Dorotheo, Epiphanio, Hippolyto aliisque vindicata. Leipzig: B. G. Teubneri, 1907 (edition based on A and 5 previous editions of unidentified MSS, pp. 211–13; introduction, pp. lxviii–lxix).
3.2 Modern Translations
3.2.1 English
Calder, Daniel G., and Michael J. B. Allen. Sources and Analogues of Old English Poetry: The Major Latin Sources in Translation. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer and Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1976 (based on the printing by Delehaye, Peeters, and Coens, p. 37).
3.3 General Works
Hen, Yitzhak. Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 481–751. Leiden: Brill, 1995 (pp. 102–106 on A and the Calendar of Willibrord).
Schermann, Theodor. Propheten- und Apostellegenden nebst Jüngerkatalogen des Dorotheus und verwandter Texte. TUGAL 31/3. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs, 1907 (p. 170).
Thacker, Alan. “In Search of Saints: The English Church and the Cult of Roman Apostles and Martyrs in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries.” Pages 247–77 in Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West: Essays in Honour of Donald A. Bullough. Edited by Julia M. H. Smith. Medieval Mediterranean 28. Leiden: Brill, 2000 (pp. 276–77).
Warntjes, Immo. “The Origin(s) of the Medieval Calendar Tradition in the Latin West.” Pages 129–87 in Calendars in the Making: The Origins of Calendars from the Roman Empire to the Later Middle Ages. Edited by Sacha Stern. Time, Astronomy, and Calendars: Texts and Studies 10. Leiden: Brill (pp. 134–38 on A and the Calendar of Willibrord).