Legends of Eastern Saints, Vol. 2 - A J Wensinck

Excerpt from Legends of Eastern Saints, Vol. 2: Chiefly From Syriac Sources, Edited and Partly Translated
The existence of the story which is published in the following pages, may have been known in Europe since S. E. and J. S. Assemani published the catalogue of the Syriac Mss. preserved in the Vatican library (Bibl. apost. vatic, codd. mss. catalogus, III, p. 494). But it was only in 1879 that more details were made known by the appearance of Wustenfeld's translation of the Alexandrian synaxary (Synaxarium das ist Heiligen-Kalender der Coptischen Christen, II, p. 252 et sequ.)
In 1887/1888 the Coptic text of the story appeared in the Proceedings of the Society for Biblical Archaeology, X, p. 194 et sequ., together with a translation of another redaction of the text of the Alexandrian synaxary, much longer than the one translated by Wustenfeld (tb., p. 186). This edition and translation were made by Amelineau.
A new edition and translation of the enlarged Coptic text were published by Giron in his Legendes copies, p. 44 et sequ.
The Arabic text of the Alexandrian synaxary has been edited by J. Forget (Corpus scriptorum christianorum orientalium, scriptores arabici, series tertia, tomus I et II). The text of Wustenfeld's translation is to be found in torn. I, p. Wet sequ., that of Amelineau's translation in tom. I, p. et sequ.
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