These fragments contain a selection of ascetic and moral sayings attributed to the Egyptian Fathers and Mothers of the Desert. The codex to which the fragments originally belonged was a Paterikon containing exclusively the Systematic Collection of the Sayings of the Egyptian Desert Fathers and...
The Church Fathers and the Egyptian monastic typica stress the importance of Psalms in the life of both laymen and especially monastics. The numerous surviving Sahidic manuscripts of the Psalms of different lengths and dates underscore the relevance of the Psalms in the ascetic development of mon...
The text is of legal nature, a deed of mediation. The issuer might be a person named Cyros. It is fragmentary, therefore, the contents are vague. Patermoute`s (=Patermouthis) mother is mentioned, and “your wife, Tapia”, then a recurring word seems to be “imprisonment/imprisoning someone”. The tex...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Coptic
Date Range:
5th century-6th century
Extent:
Papyrus sheet in two fragments which belong together, the smaller one precedes the larger one. Recto is written against the fibres in Coptic, in 8 (smaller fragment) and 11 lines (larger fragment); there is an endorsement in 1 line on verso along the fibres.