Oriental sources to Canon Law: edition and translation of pseudapostolic Church Orders in Arabic transmission

在批准的项目期内，这项工作主要针对的是大量的《使徒宪法》的阿拉伯文译本，即所谓的阿拉伯文《Didascalia》。所需的时间大大超过了最初申请中估计的时间，因为除了迄今已知的两个版本外，还有第三个版本，到目前为止，还不知道还有什么更多的版本，必须单独编辑和翻译。大约950页的两个版本的编辑和翻译工作将在核准的项目期结束时基本完成。此外，还编写了大约170页的导言卷，其手稿在附件中。已经开始的第三版阿拉伯语《Didascalia》，也就是所谓的vergata，结果比预期的更费力，因为已经知道了大量手稿(30份手稿的副本可供我们处理)。这些手稿包含了大量的变体，大多不是很重要。对此的整理仍在进行中。在申请的延长期内，完成外来版的编辑和翻译工作。此外，在最初的申请中提到的伪使徒著作，即Syodos Alexandrina和Coptic Octateuchus，应进行编辑和翻译。此外，还打算彻底调查这些截然不同的文本证人以及它们彼此之间的关系，以及它们与其他东方和拉丁版本的关系。

In the approved project period the work targeted primarily the Arabic translations of the voluminous "Apostolic Constitutions", i.e. the so-called Arabic Didascalia. The time needed for this exceeded largely the one estimated in the original application, given the fact that besides the two versions hitherto known there is a third one beyond which until now, nothing further was known and which had to be edited and translated separately. The edition and translation of two versions with about 950 printed pages will be practically completed at the end of the approved project period. In addition an approximately 170-page introduction volume was written whose manuscript is in the attachment. The already started edition of the third version of the Arabic Didascalia, the so-called Vulgata, turned out to be more laborious than expected because a large number of manuscripts is known (copies of 30 manuscripts are at our disposal.) Those manuscripts contain an abundance of mostly not significant variants. The collation of this still in progress. In the extension period applicated for, zje edition and translation of the Vulgata-version shall be completed. In addition, the pseudapostolic writings mentioned in the initial application, i.e. the Syodos Alexandrina and the coptic Octateuchus, shall be edited and translated. Besides this, a thorough investigation of these very different textual witnesses and their relation to each other and to the other oriental and latin versions is intended.