Vita Charitonis confessoris
· Anonymous (a later metaphrastic version is ascribed to Symeon Metaphrastes)
· 5th-6th century core; the Metaphrastes version 10th century
· hagiography
no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
HOLLIS Primo search 'Vita Charitonis' returns four records, all non-English: an Italian translation, Cercare Dio nel deserto: Vita di Caritone (Magnano: Qiqajon/Comunità di Bose, 1990), a French monograph on Mar Chariton (2025), and unrelated items (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Vita%20Charitonis&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A wider query 'Life of Chariton' returns 540 largely irrelevant records, its top hits being studies and articles, among them an article using 'The Life of Chariton the Confessor (September 28) by Symeon the Metaphrast as a Source for the Life of John...' — i.e. the Metaphrastes Life is used as a source, not translated (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Life%20of%20Chariton&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Cyril of Scythopolis' Lives of the Monks of Palestine (Cistercian, 1991) do not include Chariton; its HOLLIS contents list Euthymius, Sabas, John the Hesychast, Cyriacus, Theodosius, Theognius, Abraamius. ANF/NPNF tables of contents (ccel.org) contain no Life of Chariton.
Foundational founder-figure of Judean desert monasticism (Chariton founded Pharan, Douka and Souka). The Greek Life exists in an older recension and in Symeon Metaphrastes' 10th-century reworking; Italian and French treatments exist, no English translation 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: open scan — 1 candidate(s). The Greek Life was first printed by Migne from Paris. gr. 1523, which the volume states in its own headnote - that MS is the primary witness and is not in DigiVatLib (it is a BnF Greek codex; Gallica images are 403 from this host, per sources-scans-gallica-bnf.json). The scan covers the Metaphrastes reworking; whether the older recension is printed anywhere in PG was not established in this pass, so it is not claimed either way. Migne's headnote locates the Latin of this Life in Surius at 28 September; the Acta Sanctorum volumes were not opened in this pass, so an AASS route is unchecked rather than ruled out.
PG 115 vol. located via advancedsearch title:'patrologiae cursus completus' AND volume:115, filtered to Series Graeca. GET https://archive.org/metadata/patrologicursus09migngoog -> 200 (volume 115, 614 images, 1857, NOT…