E07045: Coptic Encomion on Apa *Petros (a confessor, possible one of the saints with cult at Wadi Sarga, S02068), of unknown Egyptian provenance; written presumably during the 6th century. Skeleton entry

https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.13909967

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posted on 2018-11-02, 00:00 authored by gschenke

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History

Evidence ID

E07045

Saint Name

Petre, Apa Petre, Joseph, Apa Joseph, and Anoup, Apa Anoup, saints with cult at Wadi Sarga : S02068

Saint Name in Source

ⲁⲡⲁ ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ

Related Saint Records

https://oxford.figshare.com/articles/Petre_Apa_Petre_Joseph_Apa_Joseph_and_Anoup_Apa_Anoup_saints_with_cult_at_Wadi_Sarga/13734826

Type of Evidence

Literary - Sermons/Homilies

Language

Coptic

Evidence not before

500

Evidence not after

999

Activity not before

300

Activity not after

999

Cult activities - Non Liturgical Practices and Customs

Composing and translating saint-related texts

Source

A parchment leaf at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, I.1.b.715 (5693), records this homiletic text. The manuscript is datable on palaeographical grounds to the 10th/11th 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), 94–98.