Abstract

This paper has sought to establish the critical edition of the so called «Acta XII sociorum» (BHL 1620-1621, 1622b, 1622d e 6955),better known as «Passio XII fratrum qui e Syria venerunt», through the philological, palaeographical, historical and hagiological analysis of the available manuscript tradition. This research was intended, therefore, to retrace and re-discuss all historiographical literature on the subject so far published, with the aim to deliver a brief but detailed status quaestionis. He then proceeded to the collation of the text of all witnesses in the manuscript tradition, to the recensio and to the scrutiny of the variants, and to the identification of errors. This has allowed for the creation of a stemma modicum, thus leading to the identification of two families (α e β). With special appendix is provided ​​the critical edition of the texts corresponding to BHL 1621 and 1622f, hitherto unpublished.