The ''Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca'' is a catalogue of
Greek hagiographic
A hagiography (; ) is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions. Early Christian hagiographies might ...
materials, including ancient literary works on the
saints' lives, the
translations of their
relics, and their
miracles, arranged alphabetically by
saint. It is usually abbreviated as BHG in scholarly literature. The listings include
MSS,
incipits, and printed editions. The first two editions (1895, 1909) were edited by the
Bollandists
The Bollandist Society ( la, Societas Bollandistarum french: Société des Bollandistes) are an association of scholars, philologists, and historians (originally all Jesuits, but now including non-Jesuits) who since the early seventeenth century h ...
, which included the Jesuit scholar
Hippolyte Delehaye. The most recent editions have been the product of a single editor François Halkin. The ''BHG'' along with the ''
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina'' and ''
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis
The ''Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis'' is a catalogue of Arabic, Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, and Ethiopian hagiographic materials, including ancient literary works on the saints' lives, the translations of their relics, and their miracles, arr ...
'' are the most useful tools in the research of literary documents concerning the saints.
[Sergei Hackel, ed.]
''The Byzantine Saint (San Bernardino: Borgo Press, 1983), 161''
Editions
* ''Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca; seu, Elenchus vitarum sanctorum,'' ed. Société des Bollandistes (Bruxelles: Apud editories, 1895).
''Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca,'' 2nd ed. ed. Société des Bollandistes, Subsidia Hagiographica 8 (Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 1909).
* ''Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca,'' 3rd ed., 3 vols., ed. François Halkin, Subsidia Hagiographica 8a (Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 1957
eprinted 1986.
* ''Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca. Auctarium,'' ed. François Halkin, Subsidia Hagiographica 47 (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1969).
* ''Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca. Novum Auctarium,'' ed. François Halkin, Subsidia Hagiographica 65 (Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes, 1984).
See also
*''
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina''
*''
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis
The ''Bibliotheca Hagiographica Orientalis'' is a catalogue of Arabic, Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, and Ethiopian hagiographic materials, including ancient literary works on the saints' lives, the translations of their relics, and their miracles, arr ...
''
References
External links
Online database searchof Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca
Society of Bollandists''Open Library''
Clavis Clavium a database containing all BHG records
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Christian hagiography
Catalogues
Jesuit publications
Greek-language books
Belgian books
20th-century non-fiction books
20th-century history books