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Historia acephala


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    • Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, -373. Historia acephala
    • Historia Athanasii
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    • found: Histoire "Acéphale." Et, Index syriaque des Lettres festales d'Athanase d'Alexandrie, 1985:title page (Histoire "Acéphale") page 9 (Historia acephala; it is conserved in a single manuscript, the Codex Veronensis LX; the name Historia acephala was given to it by its first editor, Scipione Maffei, in 1738) pages 18-20 (the Historia acephala is found in volume 2 of the Codex Veronensis, which is also known as the Collection of Deacon Theodosius; the Collection was written in response to a request from the church at Carthage; the compiler ("rédacteur") of the Historia acephala was without doubt a cleric of the church of Alexandria)
    • found: Brill's New Pauly. Antiquity. Volume 6, 2005:column 404 (Historia acephala; also called the Historia Athanasii; one of the most important chronological sources for the life of Saint Athanasius; it was probably written in 386 [i.e. 13 years after the death of Athanasius] and offers a chronological history of the Alexandrian see from 346; at the beginning of the 5th century, the Historia was abridged and translated into Latin in Carthage; only the Latin version survives)
    • found: Encyclopedia of ancient Christianity, 2014:volume 2, page 260 (Historia acephala; a succinct story of the events in the life of Athanasius, written by a cleric in Alexandria around the end of the 4th century; the beginning of the Historia has been lost, hence the epithet "acephala" ("without a head"))
    • found: LC/NACO authority file, November 15, 2019(Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, -373. Historia "Acephala." French & Latin [n 85068926; this record is being reported for deletion; it is cited here as justification for making a variant access point under the name Athanasius])
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    • 2019-11-15: new
    • 2019-11-16: revised
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