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Excerpt from Shenoute of Atripe’s “Discourse” 8
Not on view
The library at the Monastery of Saint Shenoute (White Monastery) was one of the largest in medieval Egypt. Presumably connected to the monastery’s church, it once held a collection of more than one thousand codices made in scriptoria across Egypt. Over the past two centuries, these books have been dismembered and dispersed among Western and Egyptian collections.
Some of the most significant holdings, such as this excerpt, include the writings of Saint Shenoute himself. His works are primarily divided into two groups, the Canons and the Discourses. With some exceptions, the Canons offer rules related to the governance of Shenoute’s Federation, while the Discourses, such as the one shown here, compile Shenoute’s public sermons of a liturgical nature.
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