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The Acta Barnabae is a late antique apocryphal act that presents itself as a first-person narrative by John Mark, companion of Barnabas and Paul. It recounts Barnabas’s…

The Acta Joannis is an early Christian apocryphal work recounting the missionary travels, miracles, and preaching of the apostle John. It survives only in fragmentary fo…

The anonymous treatise 'Ad Avircium Marcellum contra Cataphrygas' is an anti-Montanist polemic from the late 2nd or early 3rd century, surviving only in an 11th-century…

The Adnotationes in Deuteronomium (fragmenta e catenis) are excerpts from Origen’s lost exegetical notes on Deuteronomy, preserved only in Greek catenae. Dating to Orige…

The Adnotationes in Genesim is a series of exegetical notes (σημειώσεις) on the Book of Genesis by the early Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria. Unlike a continuo…

The Adnotationes in Jesu filium Nave (fragmenta e catenis) are excerpts from Origen's lost commentary on the Book of Joshua, preserved only in Byzantine catenae. These f…

The Adnotationes in Judices (Annotations on Judges) is a lost work by Origen of Alexandria, surviving only in Greek catena fragments. Composed during his Caesarean perio…

The Adnotationes in Numeros is a series of exegetical notes on the book of Numbers by Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–253 CE). Unlike a continuous commentary, it moves vers…

The Adversus Porphyrium (Against Porphyry) of Methodius of Olympus survives only in fragments quoted by later Byzantine authors, chiefly John of Damascus and the Sacra P…

This antiphonary (Group A) is a multiple-type collection of liturgical chants for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, transmitted in Geʿez. It forms part of the Degg…

The Apologia secunda of Justin Martyr is a short apologetic work likely composed around 155–160 CE, during the reign of Antoninus Pius. It survives only in a single 14th…

The Apophthegmata patrum (Theophil's version, excerpts) is an Old Georgian translation of selected sayings from the Greek Apophthegmata patrum, attributed to Theophilus…

Arsen Sapareli's 'On the Separation of Georgians and Armenians' is a Georgian theological treatise addressing the Christological and liturgical division between the Geor…

Bel and the Dragon (Theodotionis versio) is a Greek deuterocanonical addition to the Book of Daniel, preserved in a few Septuagint manuscripts. It recounts two episodes:…

Bel and the Dragon is a Greek deuterocanonical addition to the book of Daniel, preserved in the Septuagint tradition. It comprises two episodes: Daniel exposes the fraud…

The Book of Christening is an anonymous liturgical manual for the rite of baptism in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo tradition. Written in Geʿez, it prescribes prayers,…

This work is a calendrical diagram from the Ethiopic (Geʿez) tradition, designed to compute movable feasts. It survives in a single manuscript witness (betmas) with no c…

The Carmina moralia of Gregory of Nazianzus are a collection of moral poems composed in classical metres (hexameter, elegiac, iambic) with an archaising Atticising dicti…

This catena on Paul's Epistle to Philemon compiles patristic excerpts in a scholarly-compilatory register, typical of Greek exegetical collections. Preserved in a single…

The Catena in epistulam Joannis ii (catena Andreae) is a compilation of patristic excerpts on 2 John, preserved in a single manuscript, Oxford, New College MS 58 (13th–1…

This catena on 1 John is a compilation of patristic excerpts, not a continuous commentary, preserved in a single medieval manuscript (Oxford, Coll. Nov. 58). It is attri…

The Chronologia of Joannes Zonaras is a Byzantine universal chronicle covering history from creation to 1118 CE, composed in the early 12th century. Zonaras, a retired o…

Theophylactus’s commentary on Cyril of Alexandria’s Twelve Prophets survives in a single medieval manuscript tradition. The first1k edition, based on the earliest comple…

The Contestatio is a spurious work attributed to Clement of Rome, surviving only in Greek. Its genre is debated, often classified as a formal protest or testimony. The t…

De Creatis (On Creation) is a lost treatise by Methodius of Olympus, surviving only in fragments preserved by Photius in his Bibliotheca (codex 235). The work engages in…

De Epistola Pinyti ad Dionysium is a fragmentary letter from Pinytus, bishop of Knossos, to Dionysius of Corinth, preserved solely in Eusebius of Caesarea's Historia ecc…

The fragments of Methodius of Olympus's 'De Martyribus' survive only in later Greek florilegia and catenae, not in a continuous manuscript tradition. The work, likely a…

The Vitae Prophetarum (Lives of the Prophets) is a collection of legendary biographies of Old Testament prophets, surviving in multiple Greek recensions. This edition in…

Discourse 31 is part of Isaac of Nineveh's first collection, composed in the late 7th century during his monastic retirement in Khuzestan. The Syriac text survives in mu…

The Epistula ad Flacillum is a consolatory letter by Eusebius of Caesarea addressed to Flacilla, wife of Emperor Theodosius I, on the death of their daughter Pulcheria (…

The Epistula Clementis ad Jacobum is a pseudepigraphical letter attributed to Clement of Rome but addressed to James of Jerusalem. It survives only in Greek manuscripts,…

The Epistula Petri ad Jacobum is a pseudepigraphal letter attributed to Clement of Rome, addressed to James of Jerusalem. It survives only within the Pseudo-Clementine c…

The 'Exhortation to Endurance or To the Newly Baptized' (Fragment 44) is a brief catechetical fragment attributed to Clement of Alexandria. It survives in a single manus…

The Old Georgian text of the 'Expugnatio Hierosolymae' is a translation of a lost Greek original attributed to Antiochus Strategos, a 7th-century Byzantine monk. It reco…

Eznik of Kolb's Refutation of the Sects (also known as On God) is a mid-5th-century Armenian theological treatise that systematically combats Zoroastrianism, Greek philo…

The Fragmenta ex commentariis in Ezechielem is a collection of surviving excerpts from Origen’s lost continuous commentary on the Book of Ezekiel. These fragments are pr…

The Fragmenta In Jeremiam (E Philocalia) is a surviving excerpt from Origen's lost commentary on Jeremiah, preserved only through the Philocalia, an anthology compiled b…

The Fragmenta in Librum Primum Regnorum (In Catenis de Samuelis et Regnorum) is a set of exegetical fragments attributed to Origen, preserved only in Byzantine catenae o…

The Fragmenta Incerta attributed to Methodius of Olympus survive only in later florilegia and catenae, lacking a continuous manuscript tradition. Their authenticity is u…

The Fragmenta Synodicae Epistulae is a surviving fragment of a synodical letter written by Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon, during the late second century CE. The text is prese…

This fragment, attributed to Origen, survives only as a catena excerpt on the Song of Songs, not as a continuous manuscript of his lost commentary on 1 Kingdoms. The cat…

Koriwn's Varkʿ Maštocʿi is the earliest surviving original Armenian literary work, a hagiographical biography of Mesrop Maštocʿ, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet. C…

The Old Georgian version of Maximus the Confessor's Quaestiones ad Thalassium survives in a single manuscript, likely translated from Greek at the Iviron monastery on Mo…

The work traditionally attributed to Movsēs Kalankatowacʿi is a historical chronicle of Caucasian Albania, composed in classical Armenian. It covers the Christianization…

Mxitʿar Heracʿi's work, traditionally dated to the 13th century, is a medical treatise in classical Armenian (grabar) that focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of feve…

Ephrem the Syrian's Nativity 20 is a madrasha (teaching hymn) composed for the feast of the Nativity, likely in the mid-4th century. The Syriac text survives in manuscri…

Nisibis 25 is a madrāšā (teaching hymn) by Ephrem the Syrian, likely composed during or after the Persian siege of Nisibis in 350 CE. The poem reflects the city's crisis…

Nisibis 26 is a madrasha (teaching hymn) attributed to Ephrem the Syrian, part of the Nisibene cycle likely composed in the mid-4th century. The poem reflects on the sie…

Obsidio Constantinopolis is a Georgian prose account of the 1453 fall of Constantinople, composed shortly after the event by an anonymous Georgian monk or cleric. The wo…

The Prooemium of Pseudo-Oecumenius’s commentary on the Apocalypse survives as a unique manuscript within the Byzantine catena tradition, a compilation of patristic exege…

Recognition 4 of the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions, attributed pseudepigraphically to Clement of Rome, survives in a single Syriac manuscript (Vat. sir. 128) translated…

The Selecta in Deuteronomium is a Byzantine florilegium of excerpts from Origen's lost commentary on Deuteronomy, compiled in the 10th–11th century. It preserves fragmen…

Selecta in Exodum is a catena-like compilation of exegetical comments on the Book of Exodus, traditionally attributed to Origen (c. 185–254) but likely assembled by late…

The Selecta in Jesum Nave is a collection of exegetical notes on the book of Joshua attributed to Origen, surviving only in Greek fragments preserved in catenae and flor…

Origen's Selecta in Leviticum is a fragmentary Greek commentary on the book of Leviticus, surviving only through excerpts in Byzantine catenae and the Philocalia. Compos…

The Selecta in Numeros attributed to Origen survives only in catena fragments, not as a continuous commentary. These excerpts likely derive from Origen’s homilies on Num…

The Greek translation of Susanna, preserved in the Septuagint tradition, is a deuterocanonical addition to the Book of Daniel. It recounts the story of Susanna, a Jewish…

The book of Mār Yǝṣḥāq is an anonymous Geʿez ascetical work attributed to Mār Yǝṣḥāq, likely Isaac of Nineveh (7th c. East Syriac). The text, transmitted without a speci…

The Book of the Signs is a Geʿez apocalypse attributed to the apostle Peter, structured as a series of eschatological signs and visions. It survives only in Geʿez manusc…

ቄርሎስ፡ (Qerellos) is a Geʿez compilation of patristic excerpts attributed to Cyril of Alexandria, preserved solely within the Ethiopian Orthodox manuscript tradition. Its…