Historia Acephala
As Historia Acephala ( "headless history", as no start has been handed down) is an anonymous late antiquity documentation referred to above all the life of the patriarch Athanasios of Alexandria treated.
It is a collection assembled in Alexandria based on official documents. It was created in 368 and expanded slightly in the period that followed. It originally described the history of the patriarchy since 306, but the focus is on the work of Athanasios. At the beginning of the 5th century, an abridged version was created, which was combined with other documents. A Latin translation of the Greek text was made on this basis, probably in Carthage . Only this Latin version has survived, which despite the brevity of the text contains important information on the biography of Athanasios. In the version preserved, the time from 346 to 373 is described.
The work was used by Sozomenos and Theodoret . The manuscript preserved today (made around 700) was discovered in the Biblioteca Capitolare in Verona and edited and published by Scipione Maffei in 1738 .
expenditure
- Annik Martin, Micheline Albert (eds.): Histoire "acéphale" et index syriaque des lettres festales d'Athanase d'Alexandrie (= Sources chrétiennes. 317). Éditions du Cerf, Paris 1985, ISBN 2-204-02353-1 (contains a detailed introduction, text, French translation and commentary).