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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Coptic Life of *John Chrysostom (S00779) from unknown Egyptian provenance. Skeleton entry

Evidence ID

E07033

Type of Evidence

Literary - Hagiographical - Lives

We have not examined this text.

Source

Fragments of this text include a parchment leaf at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, I.1.b.662 (5687, Copt. 37), various leaves in Paris (BN 129.13, 96; 129.14, 132; 129.16, 96; 129.17, 2 and 3; 132.1,14), London (BL Or. 3581A, 155), Oxford (Bodleian Library e166 and g3), and Naples (Bibl. Naz. IB 14, 463).

The manuscript can be dated on palaeographical grounds to the 9th century.


Bibliography

Text and translation:
Elanskaya, A.I., The Literary Coptic Manuscripts in the A. S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow (Leiden, 1994), 144–149.

Orlandi, T., "La tradizione copta sulla vita di Giovanni Crisostomo," in: T. Orlandi, A. Maresca, and A. Campagnano, A. (eds.)
Quattro omelie copte (Testi e documenti per lo studio dell’antichita 60; Milan, 1977), 9–44.


Record Created By

Gesa Schenke

Date of Entry

21/11/2018

Related Saint Records
IDNameName in SourceIdentity
S00779John/Ioannes Chrysostom, bishop of Constantinople, ob. 407Certain


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