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The Passion of the Apostle Bartholomew (Latin recension)

Passio Bartholomaei · Anonymous (Latin passion narrative of Bartholomew) · 6th-7th century · apocryphon

Latin · domain: latin-apocrypha · researched 2026-11-14

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

Bonnet printed the Latin Passio Bartholomaei in Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha II.1 (https://archive.org/details/actaapostolorvm02tiscgoog), and the only other catalogue record is a 2025 Brepols volume of Latin passionary texts (Narratio 43, passio s. Bartholomaei) — both Latin editions (HOLLIS Primo 'Passio Bartholomaei': https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Passio%20Bartholomaei&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The English 'Martyrdom of the Holy and Glorious Apostle Bartholomew' in Ante-Nicene Fathers 8, p. 553, is explicitly translated from a Greek text: the volume's introductory notice says 'This Greek text, now for the first time edited by Tischendorf, is very similar to the account of Bartholomew in Pseudo-Abdias', and it treats the Greek and the Latin as two texts (https://archive.org/details/antenicenefather08buff). Elliott's Apocryphal New Testament (1993) carries 'The Questions of Bartholomew and the Book of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ by Bartholomew' but no Passio Bartholomaei in its contents (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 No English translation of the Latin Passio was located.

The Latin Passio is the narrative the medieval West knew, and the one that fixed Bartholomew's flaying in Western art and legend. English readers have the Greek martyrdom and the Greek Questions, which tell a partly different story, so the Latin tradition that fed Jacobus de Voragine is effectively inaccessible.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · public domain (1898 imprint)
actaapostolorvm02tiscgoog (Bonnet, Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha II.1: Passio Bartholomaei)

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: The Passion of the Apostle Bartholomew — 32 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

RecordCitation
The life of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. : Containing a full, ample, accurate, instructive, and universal history of every transaction in the life of our glorious redeemer, from His taking upon himself our sinful Nature, to his Crucifixion, Resurrection from the Dead, and his Glorious Ascension into Heaven. Particularly his Genealogy, Incarnation, Preservation, Circumcision, Presentation, Divine Mission, Baptism, Fasting, Temptation, Ministry, Sufferings, Doctrine, Calling the Apostles, Miracles, Parables, Charity, Meekness, Travels, Transfiguration, Passion, Institution of the Sacrament, Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, Appearance, and Ascension into Heaven. Together with The Lives, Transactions, and Sufferings of his Holy Evangelists, Apostles, Disciples, and other Primitive Martyrs, who have sealed the great Truth of Christianity with their Blood; particularly St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, St. John, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. James the Great, St. Andrew, St. Philip, St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas, St. James the Less, St. Simon, St. Jude, St. Matthias, St. Barnabas, St. Stephen, &c. &c. &c. Including the Transactions of John the Baptist, the great Forerunner of the Messiah; as also the Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, &c. &c. To which is added, a full defence of the Christian religion, In which the Evidences of Christianity are fairly stated, the New Testament proved to be genuine, and the Religion of the great Redeemer of Mankind truly Divine. The whole Properly adapted to promote the Knowledge of our Holy Religion, a firm Faith in the Merits of Our Blessed Redeemer, and the Practice of every Christian Virtue. By the Rev. John Fleetwood, D. D. Author of The History of the Holy Bible, Published by the King's Authority
Fleetwood, John · 1790? · eng
Fleetwood, John. "The life of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. : Containing a full, ample, accurate, instructive, and universal history of every transaction in the life of our glorious redeemer, from His taking upon himself our sinful Nature, to his Crucifixion, Resurrection from the Dead, and his Glorious A…
The life of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : Containing a full, ample, accurate, instructive, and universal history of every transaction in the life of our glorious redeemer, from His taking upon himself our sinful Nature, to his Crucifixion, Resurrection from the Dead, and his Glorious Ascension into Heaven. Particularly his Genealogy, Incarnation, Preservation, Circumcision, Presentation, Divine Mission, Baptism, Fasting, Temptation, Ministry, Sufferings, Doctrine, Calling the Apostles, Miracles, Parables, Charity, Meekness, Travels, Transfiguration, Passion, Institution of the Sacrament, Crucifixion, Burial, Resurrection, Appearance, and Ascension into Heaven. Together with The Lives, Transactions, and Sufferings of his Holy Evangelists, Apostles, Disciples, and other Primitive Martyrs, who have sealed the great Truth of Christianity with their Blood; particularly St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, St. John, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. James the Great, St. Andrew, St. Philip, St. Bartholomew, St. Thomas, St. James the Less, St. Simon, St. Jude, St. Matthias, St. Barnabas, St. Stephen, &c. &c. &c. Including the Transactions of John the Baptist, the great Forerunner of the Messiah; as also the Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, &c. &c. To which is added, a full defence of the Christian religion, In which the Evidences of Christianity are fairly stated, the New Testament proved to be genuine, and the Religion of the great Redeemer of Mankind truly Divine. The whole Properly adapted to promote the Knowledge of our Holy Religion, a firm Faith in the Merits of Our Blessed Redeemer, and the Practice of every Christian Virtue. By the Rev. John Fleetwood, D. D. Author of The History of the Holy Bible, Published by the King's Authority
Fleetwood, John · 1790? · eng
Fleetwood, John. "The life of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : Containing a full, ample, accurate, instructive, and universal history of every transaction in the life of our glorious redeemer, from His taking upon himself our sinful Nature, to his Crucifixion, Resurrection from the Dead, and his Glorious As…
The new and complete evangelical history of the life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : Containing a full and complete account of our glorious redeemer; particularly his nativity, genealogy, preservation, circumcision, baptism, fasting, temptation, ministry, doctrine, calling of the apostles, miracles, parables, travels, transfiguration, passion, institution of the sacrament, crucifixion, burial, resurrection, appearance, ascension, &c. &c. &c. To which will be added, the lives and sufferings of his holy apostles, evangelists, &c. those early ministers of the Gospel, viz. St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, St. John, St. Peter, St. Paul, St. Andrew, St. James the great, St. Philip, St. Bartholomew, St. James the less, St. Thomas, St. Simon, St. Jude, St. Matthias, St. Barnabas, St. Stephen, Virgin Mary, &c. Also, a brief account of their successors for 300 years after the crucifixion in the five great Apostolic Churches. Including the life and transactions of John the baptist, the harbinger or forerunner of the Great Messiah, &c. &c. &c. Together with a calculation of the present inhabitants of the world, shewing what proportion christianity bears to the Jews, Turks, and Heathens. To which will also be subjoined, a full defence of Christianity against all the objections of Jews, Arians, Socinians, Materialists, Atheists, deists, infidels, and free-thinkers, of the present age; who have endeavoured to place mankind on a level with the beasts that perish. The whole carefully collected from the four histories of the gospel, as written by the Evangelists, from the acts of the apostles, from the epistles, from the prophets, from Josephus, and other ecclesiastical historians, and from various other authentic records; and so digested and arranged, as to form a regular, connected, and uniform narrative and harmony of the gospels; interspersed with a great variety of curious particulars on the subject, barely alluded to in scripture, but explained at large by cotemporary authors, who wrote on the same transactions, and corroborated the great truths of Christianity, upon which our eternal happiness depends. By the Rev. T. Priestley, author of the Evangelical exposition of the Bible, a valuable family work, now publishing in numbers with great applause. The whole printed on a large new letter, and adorned with near thirty copper-plates, most elegantly designed and engraved by eminent artists
Priestley, T. (Timothy), 1734-1814 · 1793? · eng
Priestley, T. (Timothy), 1734-1814. "The new and complete evangelical history of the life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : Containing a full and complete account of our glorious redeemer; particularly his nativity, genealogy, preservation, circumcision, baptism, fasting, temptation, ministry, doctrine, c…
Master of San Torpè : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art [graphic]
· <ca. 1880- > · eng
"Master of San Torpè : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art [graphic]." <ca. 1880- >. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990127314690203941
Jacopo Avanzi : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art [graphic]
· <ca. 1880- > · eng
"Jacopo Avanzi : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art [graphic]." <ca. 1880- >. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990133261070203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The Passion of the Apostle Bartholomew (Latin recension)” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-passio-bartholomaei