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Fragment of part of the Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum)<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Today our featured book is the two volume set “The paradise or garden of the holy fathers : being histories of the Anchorites, recluses, monks, coenobites and ascetic fathers of the deserts of Egypt between A.D. CCL and A.D. CCCC circiter”<\/em> compiled by Athanasius archbishop of Alexandria, Palladius bishop of Helenopolis, Saint Jerome and others.<\/p>\n

In 1888, while on a visit to the ancient city of Nineveh, current day M\u014d\u1e63ul, Wallis Budge was shown a very ancient (13th or 14th century) Syriac manuscript of the Book of Paradise by the seventh century monk \u00c2n\u00e2n-\u00cesh\u00f4. Upon examination Budge found that this volume contained a collection of works on the history of Christian monasticism in Egypt. Given permission to have a copy made he returned to the British Museum and translated the works into the two volume set found in our library. Truly an adventure worthy of Indiana Jones.<\/p>\n

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\nDLWA Call Number: BX2734 .A619 1907<\/p>\n

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