William Veder’s The Scete Paterikon/Patericon Scepticum/Скитский Патерик, published as vols. 12-14 in the Pegasus Oost-Europese Studies series, is a recent addition to the HRL’s extensive print library. The first volume includes an introduction to the Apophthegmata Patrum, and the Scete Paterikon. The apparatus of the three volumes is reviewed – and a list of manuscripts used and references consulted are included. Maps of Egypt and Sinai, Alexandria, and the Nile Delta from the 3rd-5th centuries are provided. Next are the indices: Names (61-65), Biblical Quotations and References (66-70), Apophthegms (Armenian – according to Louis Leloir; Coptic – Marius Chaîne; Greek – Lucien Régnault, Viktoros Matthaiou, and Jean-Claude Guy; Latin – José G. Freire; Syriac – Ernest A. Wallis Budge; and Slavic – William R. Veder), alphabetical listings of incipits for the Greek (80-105), Latin (106-125), and Slavonic texts (126-153), with the bulk of the volume devoted to a word index to the Slavonic text (154-494).

Photo of the 3 volumes of The Scete Paterikon front covers - gray background with the number of each volume in large white numerals on top of the gray, then overlaying the numerals in alternating red, black and red horizontal lines is the name of the work in English, Latin and Russian. Vertically oriented to the edge of the spine on the front cover is the name of the series in red

The second volume contains the Greek text of the Scete Paterikon, the Latin translations of the 6th cent., and the English translation of the Slavonic textus receptus (“received text”).

Volume three includes the Slavonic translation of the Scete Paterikon as well as a reconstruction of its Glagolitic archetype.