Every catalogue record for the collection is a Latin record: a 1995 facsimile of the Vienna manuscript and the 2025 Brepols edition of its seventh section, Virtutes Iohannis, which its title describes as a section 'Virtutum apostolorum quas Lazius Abdiae episcopo Babylonico perperam ascripsit' (HOLLIS Primo 'Virtutes apostolorum': https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Virtutes%20apostolorum&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Neither J.K. Elliott, The Apocryphal New Testament (1993) nor the three volumes of New Testament Apocrypha: More Noncanonical Scriptures (Eerdmans, 2016-2023) contain the collection in their tables of contents, which were read through HOLLIS (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 https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,More%20Noncanonical%20Scriptures&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Ante-Nicene Fathers 8 translates the corresponding apostle acts from Tischendorf's Greek texts, and its introductory notice says of the Greek Martyrdom of Bartholomew that it 'is very similar to the account of Bartholomew in Pseudo-Abdias' while treating the two as distinct texts (https://archive.org/details/antenicenefather08buff). No English translation of the collection as a whole, or of any one of its twelve apostolic sections as a separate work, was located.
The only continuous Latin narrative of all twelve apostles, and the immediate source of the Golden Legend and of most Western apocryphal iconography. Without a translation, a reader cannot compare the Latin recension that the medieval West knew with the Greek acts that modern English collections print; the Latin text exists only in an early-modern printed tradition and a 2025 Brepols edition.
| Record | Citation |
|---|---|
| The ancient martyrdom accounts of Peter and Paul | Eastman, David L. "The ancient martyrdom accounts of Peter and Paul." Atlanta : SBL Press, 2015. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990144434770203941 |
| Ritual memory : the apocryphal Acts and liturgical commemoration in the early medieval West (c. 500-1215) | Rose, E. (Els). "Ritual memory : the apocryphal Acts and liturgical commemoration in the early medieval West (c. 500-1215)." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990119642580203941 |