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Coptic Encomion/Homily on *Pachomios (Egyptian monastic founder, ob. 346., S00352) of unknown Egyptian provenance; presumably written sometime during the later 4th century. Skeleton entry

Evidence ID

E07044

Type of Evidence

Literary - Sermons/Homilies

We have not examined this text.

Cult Places

Cult building - monastic

Places Named after Saint

Monastery

Source

Two parchment leaves, I.1.b.661 (5686, Copt. 30), are kept at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. They are dateable on palaeographical grounds to the 10th 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), 85–93.

Record Created By

Gesa Schenke

Date of Entry

2/11/2018

Related Saint Records

ID	Name	Name in Source	Identity
S00352	Pachomiοs, Egyptian monastic founder, ob. 346.	ⲁⲡⲁ ⲡⲁϩⲱⲙⲟ	Certain

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