Pachomius' Letters 1-3, 7, 10 and 11a
| Müellif | Unknown |
| Materyal türü | Yazma eser |
| Dil | İngilizce |
| Kurum | Chester Beatty |
| Kaynak | Europeana |
| Not | Small parchment scroll (rotuli) containing an archival copy made for the Pachomian Monastic Library, probably at Phbow (Egypt), of Pachomius' Letters 1-3, 7, 10 and 11a, written in Greek (translated from the Coptic original) in the fourth century. Pachomius (d. 346) is credited as the father of Christian cenobitic (communal) monasticism. He established the first monastery in Upper Egypt and the community quickly grew to 12 large monasteries housing thousands of monks. By the end of the fourth century sister communities had been established in Cappadocia, Syria, Palestine, Italy and Gaul. A collection of his writings and letters was probably assembled by his successors Theodore and Horsiesios. Many of the letters make a mysterious use of the alphabet, which may relate to the ancient Egyptian love of cryptograms, but efforts to decipher them have so far been unsuccessful. This manuscript is associated with a collection of material from the Pachomian monastic library (also known as the Dishna Papers or Bodmer Papyri), a portion of which was purchased by Beatty in 1956. |
Unknown, Pachomius' Letters 1-3, 7, 10 and 11a, Chester Beatty, https://www.europeana.eu/item/1100/3027?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=mmurvess.