Document: Life of Malchus, the Captive Monk
Reference: CPL 619
Incipit: Qui nauali proelio dimicaturi sunt
Date: 390/391 (Kelly p. 170)
Earliest ms.: Napoli, Italy: Biblioteca Nazionale, VI.D.59, f. 89v-95v. 6-7th century. (Lambert, II: p. 506)
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. 184-211.C.C. Mierow, Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi Vita Malchi Monachi Captivi, The Classical Bulletin (St. Louis 1946), pp. 31-60.Migne, ed., Vita Malchi, PL vol. 23, coll. 55-59.

Christa Gray, Jerome, Vita Malchi: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary. 1 edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

English Translation: S. Rebenich, Jerome (London and New York 2002), pp. 85-92.C. White, editor and translator, “Life of Malchus by Jerome” in Early Christian Lives. Penguin classics (London, England: Penguin Books, 1998), pp. 117-128.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. 283-97.

W.H. Fremantle, “Life of Malchus, the Captive Monk” in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), pp. 315-19.

Christa Gray, Jerome, Vita Malchi: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary. 1 edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

French translation: see Leclerc, Morales, and Vogüé above.
Bibliography: Discussed in Kelly, pp. 170-72.

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