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10th c. Synaxarium Constant. Greek
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10th c. Flodoard Latin, poetic
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mid 13th c. Welsh
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(4) Synaxarium Constantinopolitanum (Greek, 10th c.)

Compilation for liturgical use of short Saints' lives, covering the Byzantine liturgical year. Probably commissioned by Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (905-959). The condensed lives of this Synaxarium are abridged even further in the early 11th century Menologion of Basil II.

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The text is that of (4.b) Delehaye 1902.

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[ Cod. Sirmondianus, fol. 187v; Delehaye 1902, col. 577 ]

ΜΗΝ ΑΠΡΙΛΛΙΟΣ

ἡμέρας ἔχει λ´, ἡ ἡμέρα ἕχει ὥρας ιγ´ καὶ ἡ νὺξ ὥρας ιά.

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April. 1.

1. Μνήμη τῆς ὁσίας Μαρίας τῆς Αἰγυπτίας. Αὕτη ἐξ Αἰγύπτου ἦν, ἐν ἀκολασίᾳ δὲ τὸ πρότερον ζήσασα καὶ πολλῶν ἀνθρώπων ψυχὰς διὰ τῆς κατὰ μίξιν ἡδονῆς πρὸς ὄλεθρον ἐκκαλεσαμένη καὶ ἐπὶ χρόνοις δεκαεπτὰ τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ προσμείνασα διὰ τὸ εὐθὺς ἐκ παίδων πρὸς τὴν πονηρὰν πρᾶξιν ἐξολισθῆσαι, ὕστερον ἐπέδωκεν ἑαυτὴν πρὸς ἄκραν ἐγκράτειαν καὶ ἀρετήν· καὶ τοσοῦτον ὑψώθη δι᾽ ἀπαθείας, ὡς καὶ τοῖς ὕδασιν ἐπιβαίνειν καὶ πεζῃ διαπερᾶν, καὶ ἐν τῷ προσεύχεσθαι μετάρσιος φαίνεσθαι ἄνω εἰς τὸν ἀέρα ἱπταμένη. Ἡ δὲ αἰτία τῆς μεταβολῆς ἐστιν αὕτη. Κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν τῆς τοῦ τιμίου ξύλου ὑψώσεως, πολλῶν ἁπανταχόθεν συντρεχόντων ἐν τοῖς Ἱεροσολύμοις, ἀκολάστοις νέοις καὶ αὕτη [ Cod. Sirmondianus, fol. 188r ] συνεξωρμήθη. Κατὰ τὸν τόπον δὲ γενομένη καὶ ἀοράτως [ Delehaye 1902, col. 578 ] τῆς τῶν σεπτῶν εἰσόδου καὶ ἐποπτείας κωλυομένη, τὴν Θεομήτορα παρθένον ἐγγυητὴν ἔθετο, εἰ τὴν εἴσοδον συγχωρηθείη, σωφροσύνην μὲν ἀνελέσθαι, μηκέτι δὲ βίῳ πονηρῷ καὶ ταῖς σαρκικαῖς δουλεύειν ἡδοναῖς καὶ ἐπιθυμίαις. Καὶ μέντοι τῆς εὐχῆς τυχοῦσα τὴν ὑπόσχεσιν οὐκ ἐψεύσατο· ἀλλὰ περαιωθεῖσα τὸν Ἰορδάνην καὶ γενομένη κατὰ τὴν ἔρημον, ἐπὶ χρόνοις τεσσαράκοντα ἑπτὰ ἠγωνίσατο· καὶ μηδένα μὲν ἀνθρώπων τὸν 〈δὲ〉 Θεὸν μόνον ἔχουσα θεατήν, τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης φύσεως ἀπανέστη, τὴν δὲ ἀγγελικὴν ἐπὶ γῆς ἀγωγὴν καὶ πολιτείαν ἀνεκτήσατο. Ὕστερον δὲ κατὰ θείαν πρόνοιαν ὤφθη Ζωσιμᾷ τῷ ἁγίῳ γέροντι εἰς τὰ ἐνδότερα τῆς ἐρήμου ἐκβαθύναντι· καὶ συντυχοῦσα καὶ τὰ κατ᾽ αὐτὴν διηγησαμένη καὶ εἰς τὸν ἐπιόντα χρόνον τὸν Ἰορδάνην πεζὴ [ Delehaye 1902, col. 579 ] διαπεραιώσασα καὶ τῶν θείων μυστηρίων παρὰ τοῦ ἁγίου Ζωσιμᾶ μεταλαβοῦσα, εἶτα εἰς τὸν ἑαυτῆς ὑποστρέψασα τόπον αὐθωρόν, ἐν ᾧ τὸν Ζωσιμᾶν συνέτυχεν, ἐκοιμήθη. Εἰς δὲ τὸν ἐπιόντα [ Delehaye 1902, col. 580 ] ἐνιαυτὸν ὁ Ζωσιμᾶς καταλαβὼν τὴν ἔρημον καὶ ἀπελθὼν εὗρε τὸ αὐτῆς λείφανον 〈καὶ〉 ἔθαψε, λέοντος τοῦ θηρὸς τοῖς ἐμπροσθίοις ποσὶ τὸν τῆς μακαρίας τάφον ὀρύξαντος προνοίᾳ Θεοῦ.

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Manuscript (4.a) Cod. Sirmondianus is the main source for the printed edition (4.b) Delehaye 1902.

(4.a) Cod. Sirmondianus

Συναξάριον περιέχον ὅλου τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ τῶν ἁγίων μαρτύρων καὶ τῶν ὁσίων ἐν συντόμω τὰ ὑπομνήματα, manuscript, 12th-13th century (fols. 13-300), Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, signatures gr. 219 / Phillipps 1622, fols. 187v-188r.

Description in Wilhelm Studemund and Leopold Cohn: Verzeichniss der Griechischen Handschriften, vol. 1: Codices ex Bibliotheca Meermanniana Phillippici Graeci nunc Berolinenses (vol. 11 of Die Handschriften-Verzeichnisse der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin), Berlin 1890, p. 96.
"Codex e duabus partibus compositus est: [...] II. folia 13-300 [...] Synaxarium complectens vitas Sanctorum totius anni, a mense Septembri usque ad mensem Augustum. [...] non idem est cum Menologio iussu Basilii imperatoris concinnato (Migne, tom. CXVII p. 20 sqq.)"

Description and bibliography @ Pinakes.

Fols. 1-12 of the Manuscript are from the 16th century; fols. 13-300, that contain the synaxarium, are from the 12th-13th century.

(4.b) Delehaye 1902

Delehaye, Hippolyte (ed.): Synaxarium ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae. E Codice Sirmondiano nunc Berolinensi. Adiectis synaxariis selectis, Paris 1902, cols. 577-580.

The copy from Universitätsbibliothek Mainz is available on several platforms:

Universitätsbibliothek Mainz, col. 577 ff. // Bibliographical details

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Wikimedia Commons, col. 577 ff.

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