Document: Life of Hilarion
Reference: CPL 618
Incipit: Scripturus Vitam beati
Addressee: Asella (Ewald, p. 243)
Date: 390-393 (Kelly p. 170-174)
Earliest ms.: Bern, Switzerland: Burgerbibliothek, 376, f. 68-84. 8-9th century. (Lambert, II: p. 482)
Latin Text: P. Leclerc, E.M. Morales, and A. de Vogüé. eds.,. Jerome: Trois vies de moines: Paul, Malchus, Hilarion, Sources chrétiennes, no 508  (Paris: Cerf, 2007), pp. 212-99.A. Bastiaensen and C. Moreschini, Vite dei Santi, vol. 4 (Rome 1975), pp. 72-143, 291-317.

Migne. ed., Vita Sancti Hilarionis, PL vol. 23, coll. 347-420.

English Translation: C. White, editor and translator, “Life of Hilarion by Jerome” in Early Christian Lives. . Penguin classics (London, England: Penguin Books, 1998), pp. 85-115.M.L. Ewald, “Life of Malchus” in Early Christian Biographies: A New Translation, Fathers of the Church, vol. 15 (Washington, D.C., Catholic University of America Press, 1952), pp. 241-80.

W.H. Fremantle, “Life of St. Hilarion” in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), pp. 303-15.

Italian translation and commentary: see Bastaensen and Moreschini above.
French translation: see Leclerc, Morales, and Vogüé above.
Notes: Discussed in Kelly, pp. 172-74.

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