Stories of the holy fathers, being histories of the anchorites, recluses, monks, coenobites and ascetic fathers of the deserts of Egypt, between A.D. 250 and A.D. 400 circiter. / Compiled by Athanasius, Palladius, Saint Jerome, and others. Now translated out of the Syriac with notes and introduction by Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

ʻAnân-Îshôʻ, active 7th century, compiler.

Contributor:

Palladius, Bishop of Aspuna, -approximately 430.

Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, -373.

Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.

Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934, translator.

Language:

English

Syriac, Modern

Subjects (All):

Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, approximately 250-355 or 356.

Anthony.

Monasticism and religious orders--Egypt.

Monasticism and religious orders.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 511 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Oxford Univ. Press, H. Milford, 1934.

Notes:

A revised translation of the first part of the "Book of paradise" as compiled by \Anān Īshō\, the second part being simultaneously published in a revised translation under the title "The wit and wisdom of the Christian fathers of Egypt". Both parts were originally published in an English translation in 1904, under the title "Book of paradise".

"The life of Saint Anthony, by Athanasius": p. 5-102.

OCLC:

1028944