Horsiesios' Letter 4
Object Information
Object Information
Description
- Object no:
- Cpt 1495
- Title:
- Horsiesios' Letter 4
- Scribe and production place:
- Unknown
Egypt
- Production date:
- 6th century
- Dimensions:
- 307 mm x 1222 mm (height x length)
- Material:
- Papyrus (material) Ink (material)
- Language:
- Sahidic (Coptic dialect)
- Collection:
- Coptic collection
- Object category:
- Manuscript
- Object name:
- Scroll (object name)
- Description:
- Small papyrus scroll containing an archival copy of a homiletic letter from Horsiesios addressed to the brother of the Pachomian monastic community in Egypt, written in Sahidic Coptic and probably copied in the sixth century. Horsiesios (d. 387) was successor to Pachomius, founder of Christian cenobitic (communal) monasticism, as head of the Pachomian Koinonia. 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.
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