Narratio de Galbio et Candido
Standard abbreviation: Leg. Galb. Cand.
Other titles: none
Clavis numbers: ECCA 945; CANT 105a
Category: Dormition Accounts
Related literature: Life of Mary by Maximus the Confessor, Gregory 1.10
Compiled by: Tony Burke, York University ([email protected])
Citing this resource (using Chicago Manual of Style): Burke, Tony. “Legend of Galbius and Candidus.” e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha. Accessed DAY MONTH YEAR. https://www.nasscal.com/e-clavis-christian-apocrypha/legend-of-galbius-and-candidus/.
Created September 2024.
1. SUMMARY
Named Historical Figures and Characters:
Geographical Locations:
2. RESOURCES
2.1 Web Site and Other Online Sources
“E08473: Narratio in depositionem pretiosae vestis Deiparae in Blachernis (BHG 1058).” The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity (discussion by Nadine Viermann).
3. BIBLIOGRAPHY
3.1 Manuscripts and Editions
3.1.1 Greek (Wenger’s Type A text)
3.1.1.1 Long Recension (BHG 1058a)
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 1447, fols. 255-258 (11th cent.) ~ Pinakes; Gallica
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ott. gr. 402, fols. 73v-76r (11th/12th cent.) ~ Pinakes
Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. gr. 317, fols. 36v-39r (11th cent.) ~ Pinakes; BAV
Loparev, Crisanf. “Staroe Svidetelstvo o Polozhenii rizy Bogorodnitsy vo Vlakherniakh.” VizVrem 2 (1895): 592–612 (edition with Russian translation).
and Menoloion A
3.1.1.2 Short Recension (BHG 1058b)
Mount Sinai, Monē tēs Hagias Aikaterinēs, gr. 491, fols. 252-258 (8th/9th cent.) ~ Pinakes; LOC
Wenger, Antoine. “Note inédites sur les empereurs Théodose I, Arcadius, Théodose II, Léon I.” Revue des études byzantines 10 (1952): 47–59 (excerpts).
Wenger, Antoine. L’Assomption de la T.S. Vierge dans la tradition byzantine du VIe au Xe siècle. Études et documents. Archives de l’Orient chrétien 5. Paris: Institut français d’études byzantines, 1955 (long recension, pp. 294–302; short recension, pp. 306–10).
3.1.2 Versions (Wenger’s Type B text)
3.1.2.1 Narratio in depositionem pretiosae vestis Deiparae in Blachernis (BHG 1058)
3.1.2.1.1 Anonymous
Jerusalem, Patirar. 6 (9th/10th cent.)
Paris, 1177 (10th cent.)
Paris 1453
Marcian gr. 360
Bodl. Barroc. 199
Meteores Barlaam 137
Laurent IX 17
Genes 35
Athos, Laura 438 and 33
Naples C 25
Berlin grec 277
BAV gr. 1572
Ottob gr. 12
3.1.2.1.2 Attributed to Theodore Syncellus
MOnac gr. 146
Vat gr. 829
Athos, Laura 455
Athos, Dionysiou 169
Gregroious 7
Xeropotamu 236
Turin LXX c. III 13
Combefis, François. Historia Haeresis Monothelitarum. Bibliotheca Patrum Novum Auctuarium. Paris: Antonius Bertier, 1648 (text based on Paris, BNF 1177 with facing Latin translation, pp. 751–88).
two versions in Symeon Metaphrastes Life of the Virgin
Latyšev, Vasilij V. Menologii anonymi byzantini saeculi X quae supersunt. 2 vols. St. Petersburg: Tipografija Imperatorskoj Akademii Nauk, 1911–1912 (edition based on Moscow, Sinod. gr. 9, with readings from Sinod. gr. 160, and Sinod gr. 161, in vol. 2, pp. 345–82).
Menologion A in Latsyev 2: 127-32
3.2 Modern Translations
3.2.1 English
Cameron, Averil. “The Virgin’s Robe: An Episode in the History of Early Seventh-Century Constantinople.” Byzantion 49 (1979): 42–56 (translation of Loparev’s edition, pp. 48–56).
Whitby, Michael. Theodore Syncellus: The Homilies ‘On the Robe’ and ‘On the Siege.’ Translated Texts for Historians 86. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2024 (annotated translation).
3.3 General Works
Baynes, Norman H. “The Finding of the Virgin’s Robe.” Melanges Grégoire (1949): 87–95.
Cameron, Averil. “The Theotokos in Sixth-Century Constantinople: A City Finds Its Symbol.” JTS 29 (1978): 79–108.
Mango, Cyril A. “Constantinople as Theotokoupolis.” Pages 17–25 in The Mother of God: Representations of the Virgin in Byzantine Art. Edited by M. Vassilaki. Milan: Skira Editore, 2000.
__________. “The Origins of the Blachernae Shrine at Constantinople.” Pages in 61–76 in Acta XIII Congressus Internationalis Archaeologicae Christianae II. Edited by N. Cambi and E. Marin. Rome: Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1998.
Mimouni, Simon C. Dormition et assomption de Marie: Histoire des traditions anciennes. Théologie Historique 98. Paris: Beauchesne, 1995 (pp. 604–17).
Shoemaker, Stephen J. Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary’s Dormition and Assumption. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002 (pp. 71–74).
__________. “The Cult of Fashion: The Earliest ‘Life of the Virgin’ and Constantinople’s Marian Relics.” DOP 62 (2008): 53–74.
Viermann, Nadine. “Holy Objects on the Move. Relics in Constantinople between City Centre and Urban Periphery.” Pages 148–68 in Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity. Edited by Carlos Machado, Rowan Munnery, and Rebecca Sweetman. New York, NY: Routledge 2023.
Wenger, Antoine. L’Assomption de la T.S. Vierge dans la tradition byzantine du VIe au Xe siècle. Études et documents. Archives de l’Orient chrétien 5. Paris: Institut français d’études byzantines, 1955 (pp. 111–39).
Wortley, John. “The Marian Relics at Constantinople.” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 45 (2005): 171–87.