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Evidence ID
E07009Saint Name
Antony, 'the Great', monk of Egypt, ob. 356 : S00098Type of Evidence
Literary - Hagiographical - LivesEvidence not before
580Evidence not after
823Activity not before
320Activity not after
823Place of Evidence - Region
Egypt and CyrenaicaPlace of Evidence - City, village, etc
HermopolisPlace of evidence - City name in other Language(s)
Hermopolis
Hermopolis
ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ
Ashmunein
HermopolisCult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs
Composing and translating saint-related textsSource
The parchment codex M 583 with the Encomion on Antony by John of Hermopolis comes from the monastery of the Archangel Michael near Hamuli in the Fayum and now belongs to the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. The colophon dates the production of this manuscript to the year AD 822–823.
For details see T. Orlandi, Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari online at
http://www.cmcl.it/entrata.html/Bibliography
Text and translation:
Garitte, G., "Panégyrique de saint Antoine par Jean, évêque d’Hermopolis," Orientalia Christiana Periodica 9 (1943), 100–134 and 330–365.
Mentioned in:
Emmel, S., "Coptic literature in the Byzantine and early Islamic world," in: R. Bagnall (ed.), Egypt in the Byzantine World, 300–700 (Cambridge, 2007), 83–102, p. 95.
