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    • Author/Creator:Shenoute.
    • Title:Discourses.
    • Published/Created:Egypt, [8th/9th century]
    • Physical Description:4 leaves and one fragment: parchment; leaf 1 = 178 x 222 mm; leaf 2 = 202 x 187 mm; leaf 3 = 160 x 210 mm; leaf 4 = 193 x 200 mm; frag. 1 = 14 x 6mm

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    • Notes:Script: Large uncial script.
      White Monastery codex ZD, pp. 193-200. Black ink. Most text is well-preserved; some pages are faded. Two columns per page. Lack of decoration/rubrication. Small fragment contains ink, but no discernible letters. Leaf 1, r = Theological exposition concerning the cross and idolatry with a quotation from Ps 97:7. Leaf 1, v = Mentions heaven and the fires of Gehenna. Leaf 2, r = Mentions a mountain or monastery (ptoou), the sea, and potentially an entourage (komitaton). Leaf 2, v = Coptic page numeration: 198. Mentions a king, the Lord, and land, and sin. Also mentions “those who know the apostles say this: 'God [is] in Christ, who reconciles the world to him.' The interpretation of these things...those who hear me a few times in the midst of every crowd.” Leaf 3, v = Mentions a synagogue and a discourse ("I answered, saying to them: 'It is good...'"). Leaf 4, r = Discourse on "lift[ing] up our cross" and endless prayer. Mentions the kingdom of Christ. Leaf 4, v = Mentions the Lord, grace/gift, a procession out, and "the one who made them."
      In Sahidic Coptic
      Formerly owned by the White Monastery, Sohag, Egypt. Purchased from H. P. Kraus on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1988.
      Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Chance Bonar.
    • Access and use:Material is open for research.
    • Summary:Manuscript on a theological discourse of Shenoute (Discourses, book 8) concerning the cross, hell, the kingdom of Christ, etc. Quotes some biblical material as part of a larger argument.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • Cite as:Shenoute, Discourses. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
    • Subjects:Theological treatise. Psalms.
      Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
      Dayr al-Abyaḍ (Sūhāj, Egypt)--Ownership.
    • Genre/Form:Manuscripts, Medieval--Egypt--9th century.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13039953