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Life of St Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza
Mark the Deacon, tr. Hill, 1913
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Manuscripts
H = Jerusalem, Patriarchal Library, Cod. S. Sepulchri I, x cent.
B = Oxford, Baroccianus graec. 238, xi cent.
V = Vienna, hist. graec. 3, x or xi cent.
Vatican, Ottobonianus graec. 92, xvi cent. [a copy of V].
P = Paris, Bibl. Nat. 1452, x cent. (Epitome).
M = Moscow, 184 (376), xi cent. (Epitome).
On these see the Introduction to the Teubner edition, and Nuth’s dissertation, pp. 1 f.
Printed Texts — A. Greek
Editio Princeps, from V, by M. Haupt, in Abhandlungen Berl. Akad. d. Wiss., 1874, pp. 171 ff.
Marci Diaconi Vita Porphyrii Episcopi Gazensis. ediderunt Societatis Philologae Bonnensis Sodales. Lipsiae (Teubner). 1895. Contains also the text of P and M.
B. Latin
Translation by Gentian Hervet (1499-1584) from V, in
A. Lipomanus, de Vitis Sanctorum (1581), i, pp. 332-9.
Laur. Surius, Vitae Sanctorum (1617), Feb., pp. 200-13.
Bollandius et Henschenius, Acta Sanctorum (1736), Feb. t. iii, pp. 643-61, with Mazochi’s annotations.
Gallandius, Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum (1773), t. ix, pp. 259-77.
Migne, Patrologia Graeca, t. lxv (1858), pp. 1211 sq.
Bollandists’ Acta Sanctorum, t. iii (1865), Feb. 26, pp. 649-66.
C. Russian
Translation by Pomyalovsky, from Haupt’s text, in Part V of the Palestinsky Paterik (Imperatorskoe Pravoslavnago Palestinskoe Obstchestvo); 2d. edition, St. Petersburg, 1899.
D. English
Translation of cc. 37-49 by J. B. Bury in his Later Roman Empire, i, pp. 200-5 (1889).
Studies and Criticisms
Lenain de Tillemont, Mém. pour servir à l’hist. ecclés. (1705), t. x, pp. 703-16.
Ceillier, Auteurs sacrés (most conveniently in the edition of 1860), vi, pp. 329-30.
A. Eberhard in Bursian’s Jahresbericht, iii (1877), pp. 544-6 (review of Haupt’s text).
H. Usener in Legenden der heiligen Pelagia (1879).
J. Draeseke in Hilgenfeld’s Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Theologie, xxxi (1888), pp 352-74.
The same in Zeitschrift für kirchliche Wissenschaft und kirchliches Leben (1888), pp. 20-40.
The same in his Gesammelte patristische Untersuchungen (1889), pp. 208 sq. (reprint of the previous article).
The same in Wochenschrift für classische Philologie, 1896, p. 374 (review of the Teubner edition).
A. Ehrhard in Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 1897, pp. 170-2 (review of the Teubner edition).
A. Nuth, de Marci Diaconi vita Porphyrii episcopi Gazensis quaestiones historicae et grammaticae. Bonn Dissertation, 1897. Review of the same by K. Dieterich in Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 1899, pp. 197, 198.
Gaza and its Cults
K. B. Stark, Gaza und die philistäische Küste, Jena, 1852.
Drexler, art. Marnas in Roscher’s Ausführliches Lexikon der griech. u. röm. Mythologie, ii. 2377 ff. (1894-7).
M. A. Meyer, History of the City of Gaza, New York, 1907.
Benzinger, art. Gaza in Pauly-Wissowa-Kroll, Real-Encyclopädie der class. Altertumswiss. vii. 880 ff. (1910).
G. F. Hill, Some Palestinian Cults of the Graeco-Roman Age, in Proc. Brit. Acad., v. 1912.