Vitae duae antiquae sancti Athanasii Athonitae
· Anonymous (Life A) and Athanasius of Panagiou (Life B)
· Lives composed in the 11th century, after the saint's death c. 1000/1003 (the founder him…
· hagiography
partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.
Why this is in the register
HOLLIS Primo search 'Vitae duae antiquae Sancti Athanasii Athonitae' returns the Greek-only critical edition (Corpus Christianorum Series Graeca 9, ed. J. Noret, 1982; language Greek), an Italian translation of Life B ('La vita di Atanasio l'Athonita di Atanasio di Panaghiou', 2017, Italian + Greek), a modern Greek edition with paraphrase (2003), and English-language reviews only (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Vitae%20duae%20antiquae%20Sancti%20Athanasii%20Athonitae&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A query 'Vita Athanasii Athonitae English translation' returns 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Vita%20Athanasii%20Athonitae%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 One of the two Lives IS translated in English: Holy Men of Mount Athos, ed./trans. R. Greenfield and A.-M. Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 40 (2016), translates 'Life of Athanasios of Athos, version B' by Alice-Mary Talbot (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Holy%20Men%20of%20Mount%20Athos%20Greenfield%20Talbot&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 version A (Life A of the CCSG edition) has no English translation located.
Foundational hagiography for Mount Athos: Athanasius founded the Great Lavra and the cenobitic rule of the Holy Mountain. CCSG 9 edits both ancient Lives; English covers Life B only (DOML 40, 2016). A dedicated English translation of Life A is the gap. Date caveat: the texts are 11th-century compositions about a 10th-century saint, at the edge of this domain's 2nd-10th century range.
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 run 2026-11-13, all real requests. (1) Internet Archive metadata search: title:(Athanasii Athonitae)=0, title:(Vitae duae)=7 items, none Greek/Athonite (Celano, Anthony of Padua, etc.); 'Noret AND Athanasii'=0; title:(Atanasio) AND title:(Athonita)=0. (2) BnF SRU bib.anywhere all "Athanasii Athonitae" → 2 records, both the 1982 CCSG 9 edition (ark:/12148/cb366748314 and cb35677875b, ISBN 2503400914/2503400922), no Gallica link — print only. (3) LOC 'manuscripts-in-st-catherines-monastery-mount-sinai' q='Athanasius Athon' → 0 hits. (4) Four Google 'Acta Sanctorum Julii' volumes (bub_gb_lYUhXPAlC2IC, 7U5GfMrNoWwC, 8VpX4lrDoIcC, J80b2X8G_bUC) streamed and grepped for 'Athonit' → no occurrence (their fulltext index also returns 0 hits for 'Athanasius', i.e. not searchable). (5) e-rara returns a Cloudflare 'Verifying your browser' interstitial; MDZ search HTML is JS-rendered with no result list; ÖNB RepViewer search path returns 404. No scan or verified manuscript surrogate was located; the Greek Lives exist only in Noret's CCSG 9 (1982), in copyright.
Cite: Tergwame, “The Two Ancient Lives of Athanasius of Athos”
(greek gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-anonymous-vitae-athanasii-athonitae