HOLLIS Primo keyword search 'Actus Silvestri' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Actus%20Silvestri&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns Tessa Canella's Italian-Latin edition and study, Gli Actus Silvestri: genesi di una leggenda su Costantino imperatore (Spoleto, 2006), a German study of Konrad von Wurzburg's adaptation, Luitpold Wallach's Diplomatic Studies in Latin and Greek Documents from the Carolingian Age (1977, a documentary study), and no English translation. A search for 'Legend of Saint Sylvester English translation' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Legend%20of%20Saint%20Sylvester%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns only a translation of the Middle High German Kaiserchronik (West Virginia University Press, 2013), a vernacular verse chronicle that reworks the legend, and an 1889 church history; neither is a translation of the Latin Actus. No English translation of the Latin Actus Silvestri was located in HOLLIS or in the standard series.
The Actus Silvestri is the single most consequential Latin hagiographic fiction of the early Middle Ages: it invented the leper-Constantine baptism, the Donation narrative and Sylvester's dragon-slaying, and it fed the forged Constitutum Constantini. Without an English translation, the Latin legend that shaped papal-imperial ideology for eight centuries remains visible in English only through vernacular derivatives.
| Record | Citation |
|---|---|
| The law simplified for you | Sylvester, Nicole O.M. "The law simplified for you." Kingstown, St. Vincent : Projects' Promotion Ltd., 1996. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990078406880203941 |
| Parapolitics : cultural freedom and the Cold War | "Parapolitics : cultural freedom and the Cold War." Berlin : Haus der Kulturen der Welt ; Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2021]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155748068703941 |
| Elizabethan verse and prose (non-dramatic) | Potter, George Reuben, 1895-1954. "Elizabethan verse and prose (non-dramatic)." New York, H. Holt and company [1939]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990014380230203941 |
| Elizabethan verse and prose (non-dramatic) | Potter, George Reuben, 1895-1954. "Elizabethan verse and prose (non-dramatic)." New York, H. Holt and Company [c1928]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990009899460203941 |
| Tudor poetry and prose | Hebel, J. William (John William), 1891-1934. "Tudor poetry and prose." New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1953]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990009899450203941 |