Miracles of Saint Demetrius (Books 1 and 2)

Miracula sancti Demetrii (Collectio I and Collectio II) · Anonymous (clergy of Thessaloniki; multiple authors across the collections) · 7th century (the two earliest collections; later books 8th-13th c.) · hagiography

Greek · domain: hagiography · researched 2026-11-13

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo search 'plus anciens recueils des miracles de saint Demetrius' returns Paul Lemerle's two-volume edition/translation, Les plus anciens recueils des miracles de Saint Démétrius et la pénétration des Slaves dans les Balkans (Paris: CNRS, 1978-1980), whose language field is French, plus English reviews of it (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,plus%20anciens%20recueils%20des%20miracles%20de%20saint%20Demetrius&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A query adding 'English translation' returns 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Miracles%20of%20Saint%20Demetrius%20Lemerle%20English&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 HOLLIS queries for the cult return studies and articles, not a translation volume. The ANF/NPNF tables of contents (ccel.org) mention Demetrius only in passing in the church historians.

The Miracles of St. Demetrius are the richest Greek miracle collection of the early Byzantine period and the essential narrative source for the Avar/Slav sieges of Thessaloniki (c. 586, 604, 618) and for civic patronal cult. Greek text with French translation: Lemerle, Les plus anciens recueils, vol. 1 (text) and vol. 2 (commentary). No English translation of Collections I-II located.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: no scan located. Checks made and failed: (1) Internet Archive title:(miracles) AND title:(Demetrius) = 1 item (a 1987 article offprint), 'lemerle AND demetrius' = 0, title:(demetrii) = 61 items all about Demetrius of Phaleron or Homer. The standard edition (P. Lemerle, Les plus anciens recueils des miracles de Saint Demetrius, CNRS 1978-1980) is in copyright and not on IA. (2) Patrologia Graeca has no Demetrius volume (Wikipedia PG volume list checked; no Demetrius / Miracula entry). (3) BnF SRU 'Demetrius Thessalonique miracles' = 1 record, ark:/12148/cb317632696 = F. Barisic, Cuda Dimitrija Solunskog kao istoriski izvori (Belgrade 1953), a Serbian historical study, not an edition. (4) AASS October: actasanctorum52unse and actasanctorum53unse hold no files (HTTP 503); actasanc54unse (750 pp) has 0 'Demetr' hits. (5) Manuscript witnesses: no manifest tied to the Miracula could be established - DigiVatLib search is 403 from this host, vhmml.org public search paths 404, LOC Sinai q=Demetrios = 0 items. Recorded as no-scan-located rather than a guess; resolving a ms witness needs the BHG 499-516 manuscript list first.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Miracles of Saint Demetrius — 16 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Sources checked

• HOLLIS search — Miracles of Saint Demetrius Lemerle English
• HOLLIS search — plus anciens recueils des miracles de saint Demetrius

Cite: Tergwame, “Miracles of Saint Demetrius (Books 1 and 2)” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-anonymous-miracula-demetrii