Acta Ioannis (recensio latina)
· Anonymous (Latin acts of John)
· 6th-7th century
· apocryphon
Latin · domain: latin-apocrypha · researched 2026-11-14
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
Bonnet's Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha II.1 prints the Latin Acta Ioannis with the other apostolic passions (https://archive.org/details/actaapostolorvm02tiscgoog). In English, Ante-Nicene Fathers 8 gives 'Acts of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian' at p. 560 (https://archive.org/details/antenicenefather08buff), and Elliott 1993 has both 'The Acts of John' and 'Secondary Acts of John' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Apocryphal%20New%20Testament%20Elliott&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 HOLLIS Primo 'Acta Ioannis' is dominated by unrelated Renaissance and curial titles and returns no English translation of the Latin recension (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Acta%20Ioannis&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Because the catalogue records do not say whether the Latin Acta Ioannis is among the 'secondary acts' translated by Elliott, the Latin recension can only be called partially covered.
John's acts are the strangest and most theologically charged of the apocryphal acts, and the Latin recension is the form that survived in the West and fed later legends of the apostle's death. English readers get the Greek text and a set of secondary traditions, but not a labelled translation of the Latin version edited by Bonnet.
Lalleman, Pieter J. "The Acts of John : a two-stage initiation into Johannine gnosticism." Leuven, Belgium : Peeters, c1998. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990078243210203941
"Ecclesiae Ephesinae de obitu Joannis apostoli narratio ex versione Armeniaca saeculi V. nunc primum Latine cum notis prodita." Viennæ : [s.n.], 1877. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990046684330203941
"Colliguntur et commentariis illustrantur fragmenta Actuum S. Ioannis a Leucio Charino conscriptorum. Particula prima." Halis, typis Orphanotrophei, 1847. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990039480210203941