The Literary Coptic manuscripts in the A.S. Pushkin State Fine Arts Museum in Moscow / / [edited] by Alla I. Elanskaya.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, v. 18
• TeilnehmendeR: Elanskai︠a︡, A. I. 1926-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1994.
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English; Coptic
• Series: Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 18.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 527 pages, 192 pages of plates) :; illustrations
• Notes: Includes facsimiles of original manuscripts, translations, and commentary.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; INTRODUCTION: COPTIC MSS. OF THE PUSHKIN STATE FINE ARTS MUSEUM /; 1. APOPHTHEGMATA PATRUM AEGYPnORUM I.l.b.649, 711, 713 (4770,4775,-) /; 2. ACTA APOSTOLORUM PETRI ET PAULI APOCRYPHA I.I.b.686 (4795, Copt. II) /; 3. ACTA THOMAE (MARTYRIUM) I.l.b.666 (4784, Copt. 13) /; 4. ACTA MARCI I.1.b.696 (4783, Copt. 12) /; 5. THE ENCOMIUM ON S VICTOR COMPILED BY JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (?) I.1.b.656 + 714 (5681, Copt. 18/1 and 18/2) /; 6. AN ENCOMIUM ON PAKHOM THE GREAT I.1.b.661 (5686, Copt. 30) /; 7. AN ENCOMIUM ON APA PETER I.1.b.715 (5693) /; 8. THE MARTYRDOM OF APA NILE BY IOULIOS OF KBAHS I.1.b.29511 2952 (5680, Copt. 16) /; 9. THE MARTYRDOM OF APA TIMOTHEOS I.1.b.651 (4776, Copt. 17) /; 10. THE MARTYRDOM OF S THEODORE THE EASTERN AND HIS COMPANIONS: SS PANEGYRIS THE PERSIAN AND LEONTIOS THE ARAB I.1.b.308 (5405, Copt. 50) /; 11. THE MARTYRDOM OF S HERACLIDES I.1.b.292 (4779, Copt. 15) /; 12. FRAGMENTS OF AN UNIDENTIFIED VITA (?) I.l.b.6302, 6303, 631, 631b (5713) /; 13. THE LIFE OF APA THOMAS (?) I.1.b.274; 63011 4; 6301 6; 633 (5664,5744,5711) /; 14. FRAGMENT OF A MARTYRDOM 1.l.b.631a; 6301 3 (5713) /; 15. FRAGMENT OF ANOTHER MARTYRDOM I.1.b.629 (5715) /; 16. PART OF THE LIFE OFJOHN CHRYSOSTOM I.1.b.662 (5687, Copt.37) /; 17. THE LEGEND OF S HILARIA I.1.b.291 (4773, Copt. 20) /; 18. THE LEGEND OF AARON I.1.b.303 (5411, Copt. 35) /; 19. A FRAGMENT OF ALEXANDER ROMANCE I.1.b.685 (4733, Copt. 52) /; 1. THE TREATISE ON THE SYMBOLICS OF BAPTISM AND THE ELEMENTS I.1.b.2721, 379-382, 384-388, 390-399,636,1020 /; 2. THE lAST BUT ONE FOLIO OF ANCORATUS BY EPIPHANIUS OF SAlAMIS I.1.b.668 (4774, Copt. 26) /; 3. THE BEGINNING OF THE CANONS OF THE APOSTLES I.1.b.712 (5679, Copt. 14) /; 4. SHENOUTE'S SERMON I.1.b.2931, 2932, 294, 301, 302 (4781, 1-5, Copt. 22, 1-5) /; 5. FRAGMENT OF SHENOUTE'S DISCOURSE I.1.b.658 (5684, Copt. 25) /; 6. FRAGMENT OF SHENOUTE'S HOMILY DE EIS QUI E MONASTERJO DISCESSERUNT I.1.b.697 and 707 (4780 and 4768, Copt. 40 and 34) /; 7. A DISCOURSE BYSHENOUTE I.1.b.710 (4771, Copt. 21) /; 8. PORTION OF SHENOUTE'S INSTRUCTION TO THE MONKS I.1.b.716 (5694, Copt. 32) /; 9. FRAGMENT OF SHENOUTE'S SERMON I.1.b.663 (5688, Copt. 38) /; 10. A DISCOURSE ON THE SPIRITUAL EDUCATION I.1.b.655 (-, Copt.33) /; 11. THE BEGINNING OF A HOMILY CONDEMNING A TRANSGRESSOR OF THE MONASTIC RULES I.1.b.657 (5682, Copt. 23) /; 12. PART OF A SERMON ON THE PUNISHMENT FOR SINS I.1.b.652 (5691, Copt. 26, same as I.1.b.668) /; 13. PART OF A SERMON DEALING WITH THE FATE OF SINNERS AND THE RIGHTEOUS I.1.b.660 (5685, Copt. 29) /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004312846
• ISSN: 0920-623X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: [edited] by Alla I. Elanskaya.

This volume contains the first complete publication of the collection of Coptic literary manuscripts now in the A.S. Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Moscow. The collection formed in 1870-1908 by Vladimir Golenischev is of great value since it covers almost the entire field of early Christian literature in Egypt and substantially aids to fill up serious lacunae in many well-known literary works, to say nothing of the texts hitherto unknown. Important is also the fact that Coptica Golenischeviana largely derives from the library of St. Shenoute's monastery at Sohag, this virtual National Library of Christian Egypt, the source of the riches of the museums and libraries of Paris, Vienna, Berlin et cetera.