Document: Life of Paul, the First Hermit
Reference: CPL 617
Incipit: Inter multos saepe dubitatum
Date: c. 377-382 (Kelly p. 60)
Earliest ms.: Verona, Italy: Biblioteca Capitolare, XXXVIII (36), f. 107-117. 6th century. (Lambert, II: p. 480)
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), p. 142-83.I.S. Kozik, The First Desert Hero: St. Jerome’s Vita Pauli (New York 1968)

B. Degorski, Edizione critica della Vita Sancti Pauli primi eremitae di Girolamo (Rome 1987).

Migne, ed., Vita Sancti Pauli Eremitae, PL vol. 23, coll. 17-28c.
English Translation: Carolinne White, editor and translator, “Life of Paul of Thebes by Jerome” in Early Christian Lives. Penguin classics (London, England: Penguin Books, 1998), pp.71-84.M.L. Ewald, “Life of St. Paul, the First Hermit,” in Early Christian Biographies: A New Translation, Fathers of the Church, vol. 15 (Washington, D.C., Catholic University of America Press, 1952), pp. 219-38.

W.H. Fremantle, “The Life of Paulus the First Hermit” in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), pp. 299-303.
French translation: see Leclerc, Morales, and Vogüé above.
Notes: Discussed in Kelly, pp. 60-61.
Bibliography: Hoelle, Philip Charles. Commentary on the Vita Pauli of St. Jerome. Thesis (Ph. D.)–Ohio State University, 1953.
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