Life of Euthymius, Bishop of Sardis

Vita Euthymii Sardensis · Metrophanes, monk · 9th century, after Euthymius' death in 840 (iconoclast controversy) · hagiography

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

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HOLLIS Primo search 'Life of Euthymius of Sardis Papadakis' returns exactly one record: A. Papadakis, 'The Unpublished Life of Euthymius of Sardis: Bodleianus Laudianus Graecus 69', Traditio 26 (1970) 63-89, an English-language study of the manuscript (Bodl. Laud. gr. 69, fol. 306v-324v) which the abstract calls untouched and unpublished (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Life%20of%20Euthymius%20of%20Sardis%20Papadakis&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A broader query 'Life of Euthymius of Sardis' returns 0 records (the Papadakis article is indexed only under its full title) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Life%20of%20Euthymius%20of%20Sardis&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The text has no critical edition of its own and no translation in any language located; ANF/NPNF tables of contents (ccel.org) contain no Euthymius of Sardis.

One of the principal sources for the second phase of iconoclasm (815-843): Euthymius, bishop of Sardis, was a confessor under Theophilus. The Greek Life survives in a single neglected manuscript and was described, apparently with substantial excerpting, in Papadakis's 1970 article; a modern edition and any translation are outstanding gaps.

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. No scan located. The Greek Life survives in a single manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud. gr. 69, fols 306v-324v (shelfmark and folia as recorded in Papadakis, Traditio 26 (1970) 63-89, the only study). Checks made: Bodleian digital collections and the Medieval Manuscripts catalogue both return their Anubis bot-check page (HTTP 200, 'Making sure you're not a bot'), and iiif.bodleian.ox.ac.uk answers (collection/top HTTP 200) but exposes no shelfmark-addressable search, so no manifest for Laud. gr. 69 could be verified. Gallica and BnF Archives et manuscrits are 403; BnF SRU (HTTP 200) indexes no manuscript record and no print of the text. Traditio vol. 26 is not on IA (searches for 'papadakis euthymius' 0 hits, 'traditio' returns only later serial items). The article, not the Greek text, would in any case be the only obtainable derivative, and it is not open.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Metrophanes monk — 2 record(s); match basis author_only.

Record	Citation
The Revival of Byzantine mysticism among Slavs and Romanians in the XVIIIth century : texts relating to the life and activity of Paisy Velichkovsky (1722-1794) · 1986 · chu	"The Revival of Byzantine mysticism among Slavs and Romanians in the XVIIIth century : texts relating to the life and activity of Paisy Velichkovsky (1722-1794)." Thessalonikē : Aristoteleion Panepistēmion Thessalonikēs, 1986. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990021354250203941
The life of Paisij Velyčkovs'kyj Velichkovskiĭ, Paisiĭ, Saint, 1722-1794 · 1989 · eng	Velichkovskiĭ, Paisiĭ, Saint, 1722-1794. "The life of Paisij Velyčkovs'kyj." Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University, c1989. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990020915660203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Euthymius, Bishop of Sardis” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-metrophanes-vita-euthymii-sardensis