THE PARADISE OF THE HOLY FATHERS, CONTAINING THE INTRODUCTION: THE LIFE OF ST. ANTHONY, BY ATHANASIUS ARCHBP OF ALEXANDRIA: HISTORIES OF THE FATHERS BY PALLADIUS BP OF HELENOPOLIS: THE RULE OF PACHOMIUS: ST JEROME'S HISTORY OF THE FATHERS
Book Details + Condition: Chatto and Windus (New York). First Edition, 1907. Complete two-volume hardcover set. Pagination: 381pp; 350 pp - with Index. Illustrated. This work was discovered and translated by famous historian and author E.A. Wallis Budge, from a Syriac manuscript in 1888. "The Paradise of the Fathers" is the compilation of the lives and teachings of the early monastic saints. It was believed that for a monastic to achieve perfection, only the Bible and the Paradise of the Fathers were required. From the title page: "The Paradise or Garden of the Holy Fathers Beginning Histories of the Anchorites Recluses Monks Coenobites and Ascetic Fathers of the Deserts of Egypt Between A.D. CCL and A.D. CCCC Circiter Compiled by Athanasius Archbishop of Alexandria: Palladius Bishop of Helenopolis: Saint Jerome and Others. Now Translated out of the Syriac with Notes and Introduction by Ernest A. Wallis Budge..." Chapters include:
- Life of St. Anthony by Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria
- The Paradise of Palladius
- The Rule of Pachomius at Tabenna, or the "Asketikon"
- The History of the Monks, by Hieronymus
- The Sayings of the Fathers
- And much more.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. For both volumes: firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; light aging and wear to boards; toning to endpapers; chafed spine ends; Parker's bookplate to inside front board and embossed stamp to half-title page; interior is clean and free of markings.
