Common Abbreviations
Manuscripts and associated classifications cited frequently are identified by the following abbreviations
| MS. / MSS. |
Manuscript / manuscripts |
| Fol. |
Folio / folios |
| r |
recto |
| v |
verso |
| AM |
Anno Martyrum |
| SA |
St. Antony’s Monastery Red Sea Egypt Library |
| SP |
St. Paul’s Monastery Red Sea Egypt Library |
| (Hag.) |
Hagiographical Manuscript |
| (Hist.) |
Historical Manuscript |
| (Lit.) |
Liturgical Manuscript |
| (Theol.) |
Theological Manuscript |
Primary sources and journals cited frequently use the following abbreviations
| AB |
Analecta Bollandiana: Revue critique d’ hagiographie (Brussels: Societé des Bollandistes). |
| AlphAP |
Alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum. J.-P. Migne, ed. Patrologia Graeca 65.75–440 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1864) ( |
| AnonAP |
Anonymous Apophthegmata Patrum. Frédéric Nau published numerous volumes in ROC: “Histoires des Solitaires Égyptiens,” Revue de l’ Orient Chrétien ( |
| Bauer |
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. Walter Bauer, Frederick W. Danker. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000–2002. |
| BSAC |
Bulletin de la société d’ archéologie copte (Cairo: Société d’ archéologie copte). |
| CCE |
The Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia ( |
| CE |
The Coptic Encyclopedia. Aziz S. Atiya, ed. New York: Macmillan, 1991. |
| CPG |
Clavis Patrum Graecorum. (Turnhout: Brepols). |
| CS |
Cistercian Publications Series (Kalamazoo, MI; then Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press/Cistercian Publications). |
| CSCO |
Corpus scriptorium christianorum orientalium (Louvain: Peeters). |
| CSQ |
Cistercian Studies Quarterly (Trappist, KY: Abbey of Gethsemani). |
| ECR |
Eastern Churches Review (Oxford: Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius). |
| GCAL |
Geschichte der Christlichen Arabischen Literatur, vol. 1. Georg Graf. Rome, 1944. |
| HL |
Palladius, Historica Lausiaca. Trans. Robert T. Meyer. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1991; trans. John Wortley. Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications/Liturgical Press, 2015. |
| HM |
Historia Monachorum in Aegypto. Trans. Norman Russell. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1981. |
| JECS |
Journal of Early Christian Studies (Baltimore: John Hopkins UP). |
| LSJ |
Greek English Lexicon. Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott, rev. Henry Stuart Jones. Oxford: Clarendon, 1977 ( |
| Montanari |
The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek. Franco Montanari, ed.; English ed., Madeleine Goh and Chad Schroeder, eds. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2015. |
| NT |
The New Testament. Unless otherwise stated, the authors use the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) for this volume. |
| OCP |
Orientalia Christiana Periodica (Rome: Pontificio Istituto Orientale). |
| PG |
Patrologia Graeca. |
| PO |
Patrologia Orientalis. |
| PPS |
Popular Patristic Series (Yonkers, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press). |
| ROC |
Revue de l’ Orient Chrétien (Paris: Bureau des oeuvres d’ Orient). |
| RSR |
Recherches de science religieuse (Louvain: Peeters). |
| SL |
Pseudo-Serapionic Life of Antony. Trans. Elizabeth Agaiby. Leiden: Brill, 2018. |
| SP |
Studia Patristica. (Louvain: Peeters). |
| SyrAP |
Syriac Apophthegmata Patrum (Paradise or Garden of the Holy Fathers). Trans. E.A. Wallis Budge. London: Chatto and Windus, 1907. |
| SysAP |
Systematic Alphabetical Apophthegmata: Les Apophtegmes des Pères: Collection Systématique, ed. Jean-Claude Guy, S.J., 3 vols., Sources Chrétiennes 387, 474, 498 (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2013). Trans. John Wortley. Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications/Liturgical Press, 2012. |
| TSEC |
Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity Series (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill). |
| VA |
Athanasius, Vita Antonii. Trans. Tim Vivian and Apostolos N. Athanassakis. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 2003. |
| VH |
Jerome, Vita Hilarion. Trans. Roy J. Deferrari. Washington, D.C. 1964. |
| VP |
Jerome, Vita Pauli. Trans. Roy J. Deferrari. Washington, D.C. 1964. |
| ZDMG |
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag). |