Abbreviations
Manuscripts and associated classifications cited frequently are identified by the following abbreviations.
| MS / MSS |
Manuscript / manuscripts |
| AM |
Anno Martyrum |
| SA |
St Antony Monastery Library |
| SP |
St Paul Monastery Library |
| (Hag.) |
Hagiographical Manuscript |
| (Hist.) |
Historical Manuscript |
| (Lit.) |
Liturgical Manuscript |
| (Theol.) |
Theological Manuscript |
| (Bibli.) |
Biblical Manuscript |
Other sources cited frequently are identified by the following abbreviations.
| AP |
Apophthegmata Patrum, Alphabetical Collection. Trans. John Wortley. New York, 2014 |
| BHG |
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca |
| BHL |
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina |
| BHO |
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis |
| BIFAO |
Bulletin de l’ Institut Français d’ archéologie orientale |
| BMGS |
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies |
| BSAC |
Bulletin de la Société d’ archéologie copte |
| BSOAS |
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies |
| CCO |
Collectanea Christiana Orientalia |
| CE |
Coptic Encyclopedia, ed. A.S. Atiya |
| CPG |
Clavis Patrum Graecorum |
| CM |
Serapion of Thmuis, Life of Macarius (Coptic) Trans. Tim Vivian. New York, 2004 |
| GRBS |
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies |
| HE |
Socrates, Ecclesiastical History Ed./trans. George Bell. London, 1884. Reprint 2015 |
| HL |
Palladius, Lausiac History Ed./trans. Robert T. Meyer. New York, 1964. Reprint 1991 |
| HM |
Historia Monachorum in Aegypto Trans. Norman Russell. Oxford, 1981. |
| HP |
History of the Patriarchs I.1–4: Ed./trans. B. Evetts. PO 1.2, 1.4, 5.1, 10.5. Paris, 1947–1959. II.1–3: Ed./trans. O.H.E. KHS-Burmester and Yassa ‘Abd al-Masih. Cairo, 1948–1959. III.1–3: Ed./trans. O.H.E. KHS-Burmester and Antoine Khater. Cairo, 1968–1970. IV.1–2: Ed./trans. O.H.E. KHS-Burmester and Antoine Khater. Cairo, 1974. Cited according to continuous pagination. |
| JRAS |
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |
| OCP |
Orientalia Christiana Periodica |
| PG |
Patrologia Graeca |
| PL |
Patrologia Latina |
| PO |
Patrologia Orientalis |
| SL |
Serapion of Thmuis, Life of Antony (Arabic) Based on MS SP (Hist.) 53 |
| VA |
Athanasius, Vita Antonii Trans. Tim Vivian and Apostolos N. Athanassakis. Kalamazoo. 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. |