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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


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


Fragment from a Coptic Encomion on *Aaron (presumably the first High Priest, brother of Moses, S01427), of unknown Egyptian provenance. Skeleton entry

Evidence ID

E07046

Type of Evidence

Literary - Hagiographical - Lives

Literary - Sermons/Homilies

We have not examined this text.

Non Liturgical Activity

Composing and translating saint-related texts

Source

A parchment leaf at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, I.1.b.303 (5411, Copt. 35). The manuscript can be dated to the 10th century on palaeographical grounds.


Bibliography

Text and translation:
Elanskaya, A.I., The Literary Coptic Manuscripts in the A. S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow (Leiden, 1994), 156–162.


Record Created By

Gesa Schenke

Date of Entry

21/11/2018

Related Saint Records
IDNameName in SourceIdentity
S01427Aaron, first High Priest, brother of MosesCertain


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