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E07033: Coptic Life of *John Chrysostom (S00779) from unknown Egyptian provenance. Skeleton entry

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History

Evidence ID

E07033

Saint Name

John Chrysostom, bishop of Constantinople, ob. 407 : S00779

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Type of Evidence

Literary - Hagiographical - Lives

Language

Coptic

Evidence not before

400

Evidence not after

899

Activity not before

407

Activity not after

899

Place of Evidence - Region

Egypt and Cyrenaica

Place of evidence - City name in other Language(s)

Hermopolis ϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ Ashmunein Hermopolis

Source

Fragments of this text include a parchment leaf at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, I.1.b.662 (5687, Copt. 37), various leaves in Paris (BN 129.13, 96; 129.14, 132; 129.16, 96; 129.17, 2 and 3; 132.1,14), London (BL Or. 3581A, 155), Oxford (Bodleian Library e166 and g3), and Naples (Bibl. Naz. IB 14, 463). The manuscript can be dated on palaeographical grounds to the 9th 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), 144–149. Orlandi, T., "La tradizione copta sulla vita di Giovanni Crisostomo," in: T. Orlandi, A. Maresca, and A. Campagnano, A. (eds.) Quattro omelie copte (Testi e documenti per lo studio dell’antichita 60; Milan, 1977), 9–44.