Martyrdom of Vitus, Modestus and Crescentia (BHG 1876, 1876a-1876c)
We have not examined these texts (cf.
E02521 for the Latin version, possibly based on a Greek original).
Evidence ID
E07368Saint Name
Vitus, martyr of Lucania : S00599Type of Evidence
Literary - Hagiographical - Accounts of martyrdomEvidence not before
500Evidence not after
700Place of Evidence - Region
Italy south of Rome and SicilyPlace of evidence - City name in other Language(s)
Adriatic Sea
Adriatic Sea
Adriaticum MareSource
For the manuscript tradition, see:
https://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/oeuvre/18180/
https://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/oeuvre/18181/
https://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/oeuvre/18182/
https://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/oeuvre/18183/
For the edition, see Bibliography.Bibliography
Text with Italian translation:
Re, M., La Passio dei santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia. Introduzione, edizione delle recensioni greche (BHG 1876, 1876 a-c) e della versione latina BHL 8713. Traduzioni, note e indici, (Palermo, 2018), 123-230.
Further reading:
Re, M., "Note per un’edizione delle recensioni greche del martirio di san Vito," in: A. Rigo (ed.), Vie per Bisanzio. VIII Congresso Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini. Venezia, 25-28 novembre 2009, (Bari, 2013), 1039-1052.
Re, M., "Italo-Greek Hagiography," in: S. Efthymiadis (ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography I: Periods and Places (Farnham, 2011), 230.
