Collectio Monastica
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The Collectio Monastica ("Monastic Collection") is an Ethiopic book that includes some original sayings of the Desert Fathers and which is textually independent of the better-known Apophthegmata Patrum ( Sayings of the Desert Fathers ). It was first published by Victor Arras in 1963, based on two separate manuscripts that were likely based on Greek language or Coptic sources. [1] [2]
The collection consists of sixty-eight chapters of widely different lengths. Included in the book are collections of Desert Father sayings, most of which have no parallel in the Apophthegmata Patrum . The original work appears to have been written by a fifth-century monk who either lived with the Desert Fathers at Scetis , or knew the monks who lived there. He also appears to have known Abba Poemen , because of several unique stories and sayings attributed to him. [3]
Translations
English translation:
- Victor Arras, ed., Collectio monastica , CSCO 238 [with the Ethiopic text] and CSCO 239 [with a Latin translation] (Louvain: Secrétariat du Corpus SCO, 1963).
French translations:
- Lucien Regnault, Les Sentences des Pères du Désert , nouveau recueil: apophtegmes inédits ou inconnus (Sablésur-Sarthe: Solesmes, 1970), 287–331. [another partial French translation in p. 332–338]
- Victor Arras, ed., Patericon aethiopice , CSCO 277 [Ethiopic text] and CSCO 278 [Latin translation] (Louvain: Secrétariat du Corpus SCO, 1967).
See also
Notes
- ↑ Arras, Victor (1963). Collectio monastica: Ethiopic text . Secrétariat du CorpusSCO.
- ↑ Harmless, William (2000). "Remembering Poemen Remembering: The Desert Fathers and the Spirituality of Memory" . Church History . American Society of Church History. 15 . Archived from the original on 2013-05-18.
- ↑ Harmless, William (2004). Desert Christians: an introduction to the literature of early monasticism . Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. p. Appendix 8.5. ISBN 0-19-516222-6 .
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