Canon 8 of Chenouté. BEC 21.1 - 21.2.
IFAO| N° d'inventaire | 19481 |
| Format | 20 x 27.5 |
| Détails | 2 vols., 808 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Cairo, 2013 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
Coptic Study Library XXI. Based on the Ifao Coptic manuscript 2 and additional fragments. Volume 1: Summary, introduction, text edition. Volume 2: Translation, indices, plates. Chenouté (4th-5th century), abbot of the great monastery of Upper Egypt known as the "White Monastery" and Coptic writer par excellence, composed nine volumes of sermons on monastic discipline, called Canons. Like all the manuscripts in the monastery library, dispersed after their discovery in the late 1880s, these volumes have come down to us only in very fragmentary form. Canon 8 is a happy exception, since a copy datable to the 8th century, and present in the collections of the Ifao for over a hundred years, is almost entirely preserved. This publication describes the description of this manuscript, its edition and the translation of the various sermons it contains, as well as the color reproduction of all the pages preserved in Cairo. Access to this precious witness should be of interest to historians of the book and specialists in the Coptic language, as well as to historians of this Egyptian monasticism of which Chenouté was one of the most passionate representatives, putting to its service all the resources of a fiery and subtle rhetoric.
Coptic Study Library XXI. Based on the Ifao Coptic manuscript 2 and additional fragments. Volume 1: Summary, introduction, text edition. Volume 2: Translation, indices, plates. Chenouté (4th-5th century), abbot of the great monastery of Upper Egypt known as the "White Monastery" and Coptic writer par excellence, composed nine volumes of sermons on monastic discipline, called Canons. Like all the manuscripts in the monastery library, dispersed after their discovery in the late 1880s, these volumes have come down to us only in very fragmentary form. Canon 8 is a happy exception, since a copy datable to the 8th century, and present in the collections of the Ifao for over a hundred years, is almost entirely preserved. This publication describes the description of this manuscript, its edition and the translation of the various sermons it contains, as well as the color reproduction of all the pages preserved in Cairo. Access to this precious witness should be of interest to historians of the book and specialists in the Coptic language, as well as to historians of this Egyptian monasticism of which Chenouté was one of the most passionate representatives, putting to its service all the resources of a fiery and subtle rhetoric.