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Critical editions
- 1 2 3 Annik Martin, ed. (1985). Translated by Micheline Albert. "Historie "Acéphale" et Index Syriaque des Lettres Festales D'Athanase D'Alexandrie". Sources Chrétiennes . Paris: Cerf (317). (French translation)
- 1 2 Schaff, Philip; Wace, Henry, eds. (1995) [1892]. "Historia Acephala and Festal Index". Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Vol. IV: 4: Athanasius: Select Works and Letters, Second Series. Translated by Archibald Robertson. Hendrickson. ISBN 9781565631205. (English translation)
- ↑ Heinz Fromen (1914). Athanasii historia acephala. Münster: Universitätsbuchdruckerei Johannes Bredt. (Original Latin)
Other works
- 1 2 Gwynn, D (2018). "Historia Acephala". The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198662778.
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- ↑ Van Nuffelen, Peter (2002). "La tête de l''histoire acéphale'" [The Head of the Historia Acephala]. KLIO (in French). 84 (1): 125–140.
