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On Virginity

Περὶ παρθενίας · Athanasius of Alexandria (Pseudo-Athanasius in the Syriac recension) · 4th century · treatise

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

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

The only English rendering located is of the Syriac version: 'Pseudo-Athanasius on Virginity', Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 592-593, Scriptores Syri 232-233 (Louvain: Peeters, 2002), whose HOLLIS record gives languages eng;syr and the CSCO Scriptores Syri series: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Pseudo-Athanasius%20on%20virginity&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A search for the Greek work under 'Athanasius "De virginitate" English' returns only that CSCO volume plus unrelated studies: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Athanasius%20%22De%20virginitate%22%20English&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The work is absent from the NPNF volume's contents (no entry for virginity): https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf204.toc.html. No Fathers of the Church, Ancient Christian Writers or Popular Patristics translation of the Greek Περὶ παρθενίας was located.

Status is 'partial' in the strict sense that the Syriac recension is available in English (CSCO 592-593) while the Greek text printed among Athanasius' works has no English translation located. The relation between the Greek and Syriac recensions is contested, which is why this is recorded as partial rather than full. Translator of the CSCO volume not verified from the record, hence 'unknown'.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Pseudo-Athanasius on Virginity · Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 592-593 (Scriptores Syri 232-233) · unknown · 2002

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 — 2 candidate(s). PG 28 (cols 251-282) is where Migne printed the Greek Περὶ παρθενίας ἤτοι περὶ ἀσκήσεως among the spuria. Two IA scans of the same volume exist and they are complementary: patrologicursus10migngoog (Google) has the cleaner, column-separated Greek text layer but only a PDF; patrologiae_cursus_completus_gr_vol_028 is 300 ppi with jp2.zip and a working page-image service, so it is the better base for re-OCR, but its text layer garbles the Latin column on facing pages. The 165-tome container 'patrologia-volumes' file 028_djvu.txt (4,764,147 B) was measured at Greek script ratio 0.0 - Latin-model OCR with no recoverable Greek - and rejected. The Syriac recension (CSCO 592-593) remains the only English-language route and is not on IA.

Scan / witnessFormatPagesRightsOCREvidence
Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca, vol. 28 (Athanasius 4) - Google sc…
internet-archive · patrologicursus10migngoog
pdf814public-domainpoorGET https://archive.org/metadata/patrologicursus10migngoog -> 200 (volume 28, 814 images, 1857, NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT; files: the full-scan PDF only, no jp2). Text derivative https://archive.org/download/patrologicursus10mig…
Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca, vol. 28 (Athanasius 4)
internet-archive · patrologiae_cursus_completus_gr_vol_028
pdf841public-domainpoorGET https://archive.org/metadata/patrologiae_cursus_completus_gr_vol_028 -> 200, title 'Volume 28 - Athanasius 4', imagecount 841, licenseurl PD Mark. Downloaded the DjVuTXT text derivative (8,483,424 bytes, HTTP 200) a…

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Athanasius of Alexandria "On Virginity" — 7 record(s); match basis author_title.

RecordCitation
Logos sōtērias pros tēn parthenon De virginitate : eine echte Schrift des Athanasius
Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, -373 · 1905 · ger
Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, -373. "Logos sōtērias pros tēn parthenon De virginitate : eine echte Schrift des Athanasius." Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, 1905. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990024403250203941
Athanasius and asceticism
Brakke, David · 1998 · eng
Brakke, David. "Athanasius and asceticism." Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990080005450203941
Vie de sainte Synclétique
· 1972 · fre
"Vie de sainte Synclétique." Bégrolles-en-Mauge (49720) : Abbaye de Bellefontaine, 1972. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990012191370203941
The Holy Spirit : classic and contemporary readings
· 2009 · eng
"The Holy Spirit : classic and contemporary readings." Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990120827090203941
Women in early Christianity : translations from Greek texts
· 2005 · eng
"Women in early Christianity : translations from Greek texts." Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2005. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990097497900203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “On Virginity” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-athanasius-de-virginitate