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Festal Letters — Historical footnotes

Chapter uncertain; original source section: Chapter 19

Complete historical editorial footnotes. These notes retain the original edition’s wording; individual note authors are unspecified.

English translation and editorial credits: Henry Burgess (Oxford Festal Letters translation; historical edition linkage), Henry Griffin Williams (Oxford editorial revision; qualified H.G.W. match), Miss Payne-Smith (Oxford translation revision; qualified Jessie Payne Margoliouth match), Archibald Robertson (introduction and revised notes).

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1892 (historical English edition; transcription printing date uncertain) | Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)

The fragment here given of the twenty-seventh Letter, as well as fragments of the twenty-ninth and forty-fourth, are from Syriac translations, discovered by Mr. Cureton as quoted by Severus Patriarch of Antioch, in his work against Johannes Grammaticus contained in the Syriac collection of the British Museum (Cod. Add. 12, 157, fol. 202), and published by him with the preceding Letters. Their style would argue them to be part of the same translation.

Editorial footnote · Festal Letters, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Chapter 19, editorial note cite_note-1 · Original source

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From Letter XXVII.—(For 355.) From the twenty-seventh Festal Letter of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria and Confessor; of which the commencement is, ‘Again the season of the day of the living Passover.’