page_title: History of Mar Qardagh
section_title: Publication history
hierarchical_section_title: History of Mar Qardagh / Publication history
caption_attribution_description: English: Jean-Baptiste Abbeloos (1836-1906), rector of the Catholic University of Leuven (1888-1897). Français&#160;: Jean-Baptiste Abbeloos (1836-1906), recteur magnifique de l'Université catholique de Louvain (1888-1897). Nederlands: Jan-Baptist Abbeloos (1836-1906), rector magnificus van de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1888-1897).
context_page_description: The History of Mar Qardagh is a Syriac martyrdom text pertaining to Qardagh, a Sasanian military leader and noble who converted from Zoroastrianism to Christianity. Though the narrative of the text is set during the reign of Shapur II, it was written in the final decades of the Sasanian Empire.
context_section_description: The text was first edited by Jean Baptiste Abbeloos, and published in his Acta Mar Kardaghi, Assyriae Praefecti, qui sub Sapore II Martyr Occubit, AB 9 (1890). The manuscript he used was an 1869 copy made in Mosul from an original medieval manuscript he had received from E. G. Khayyath, the Chaldean archbishop of Diyarbakır. The manuscript (MS Diyarbakir Syriac. 96) was dated by Khayyath to the seventh or eighth century AD. It also contains Acts of martyrs persecuted by the Sasanian Empire between the periods of the fourth and seventh century AD. The manuscript was originally stored at the church of St. Pathion in Diyarbakir but was displaced following the First World War. The manuscript was eventually transferred to Iraq where its current condition is unknown.
  A second edition was also being published at Berlin in the same year as Abbeloos. In his Die Geschichte des Mâr 'Abhdîšô und seines Jüngers Mâr Qardagh (Kiel:C. F. Haesler, 1890), Hermann Feige introduced a German translation. He primarily used a mid-eighth century Syriac manuscript from Rustaqa along with variants from two late manuscripts written at Alqosh and in the nearby Rabban Hormizd Monastery.
  The third edition of the text was published by Paul Bedjan in his Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum (1891). His text is established upon Abbeloos's version with variants from the 1869 Mosul copy, and another from the late nineteenth century that was acquired from missionary M. Salomon of the Lake Urmia region.
  Joel Walker translated the text from Syriac to English, and was published in his The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq. (2006). He based his translation on Abbeloos's text.
caption: Photograph of Jean Baptiste Abbeloos in L'Université de Louvain. Coup d'oeil sur son histoire et ses institutions, 1425–1900, Bruxelles, Bulens, 1900, p. 91.
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