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Research atlas for early Christianity. Claims are tagged attested, traditional, or disputed. Copyrighted full texts, including CCEL editions, are not included.

Texts

surviving

Melitian monastic papyri (Paieous and Nepheros archives)

c. 330s–350s · Greek, Coptic

Groups: Melitians (Meletians) of Egypt

Letters of Melitian monks, including complaints of violence by Athanasius' supporters around 335. These are rare insider documents of a 'losing' church.

Where the manuscripts are now

  • British Library, London, UK

    P. Lond. VI 1913–1922 (ed. H. I. Bell, Jews and Christians in Egypt, 1924)

  • University of Trier / Heidelberg (Nepheros archive, P. Neph.), Germany

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Sources

No open translation is linked. The status note says how the text is known.

DeChurched Atlas — Early Christianity as history, from every source