Coptic Homily by an author whose name and identification are lost, from the Monastery of the Archangel Michael near Hamouli in the Fayum (Lower Egypt), discussing female defilement during menstruation, and praising *Michael the Archangel (S00181); written sometime between the 5th and the 9th century.
Evidence ID
E04838
Type of Evidence
Late antique original manuscripts - Parchment codex
Literary - Sermons/Homilies
M592, fol. 41r–50r:
The full text seems to have remained unpublished. An excerpt, not relating to St Michael, is given by Depuydt 1993, p. 233.
Cult PlacesComposing and translating saint-related texts
Cult building - monastic
Non Liturgical ActivityComposing and translating saint-related texts
Transmission, copying and reading saint-related texts
Source
This is the seventh (ff. 41r–50r) of eight homilies all dedicated to the archangel Michael and all contained in the same parchment codex M592. For the other homilies on Michael in M592, see E04640, E04641, E04642, E04835, E04636, E04837, and E04839.The production of the codex is datable to the 9th or early 10th century on the basis of securely dated codices (AD 822/3–913/14) found together with it at the monastery of the Archangel Michael near Hamouli in the Fayum.
Discussion
For literature and a brief overview of the Christian Egyptian tradition concerning the special sacred status attributed to Michael, see van Esbroeck 1991.Bibliography
Introduction and codicology:Depuydt, L., Catalogue of Coptic Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library: Corpus of Illuminated Manuscripts (Leuven, 1993), 230–235, esp. 233.
Further reading:
Esbroeck, M. van, "Michael the Archangel, saint," in: A.S. Atiya (ed.), The Coptic Encyclopedia, vol. 5 (New York, 1991), 1616–1620.
Record Created By
Gesa Schenke
Date of Entry
5/2/2018
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00181 | Michael, the Archangel | Certain |
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