Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca

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Title page of the 1909 edition

The Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca is a catalog of Greek hagiographic writings, such as literary works on the lives of saints , the translation of their relics, and their miracles , arranged in alphabetical order of the saints. The work is usually abbreviated as BHG . The lists include manuscripts , incipits and printed works.

The work is edited and edited by the Bollandists , since the third edition under the direction of François Halkin . The Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca , together with the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina and the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis, is one of the most important tools for scientific work on Byzantine saints.

expenditure

  • Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca; seu, Elenchus vitarum sanctorum, ed. Société des Bollandistes. Sociéte des Bollandistes, Brussels 1895.
  • Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca. 2nd edition, ed. Société des Bollandistes (= Subsidia Hagiographica 8). Société des Bollandistes, Brussels 1909 ( digitized ).
  • Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca, 3rd edition, 3 volumes, ed. François Halkin (= Subsidia Hagiographica 8a). Société des Bollandistes, Brussels 1957 (reprinted 1986).
  • Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca. Auctarium, ed. François Halkin (= Subsidia Hagiographica 47). Société des Bollandistes, Brussels 1969.
  • Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca. Novum Auctarium, ed. François Halkin (= Subsidia Hagiographica 65). Société des Bollandistes, Brussels 1984.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sergei Hackel (Ed.): The Byzantine Saint . Borgo Press, San Bernardino 1983, p. 161 .

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