Canons of Apa John the Archimandrite

Apa Johannes Canons (Coptic; transmitted in codex MONB.FA, no standard original-language title) · Apa John the Archimandrite (attributed) · unknown · canon law

Coptic · domain: monastic · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

Coptic Scriptorium's TEI header for all 14 MONB.FA sections records the translation field as 'none' (urn:cts:copticLit:johannes.canons.monbfa:308-330; checked in the local mirror /srv/christian-corpus/coptic/johannes-canons and at https://data.copticscriptorium.org/urn:cts:copticLit:johannes.canons.monbfa:308-330). HOLLIS Primo searches: 'Canons of Apa John' (3 hits, none a translation or edition of the work), 'Apa John Archimandrite canons' (0), 'Apa Johannes canons monastery' (1, a papyrology congress volume) - no English translation. archive.org full-text search for 'canons of apa john' returned 0 items. The text is published by D. Atanassova's FWF project P22641 (DOI 10.55776/p22641); no English translation was found attached to it. No translation located anywhere.

14 TEI files, c. 20,500 Coptic tokens in the local mirror; codex MONB.FA (Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, Cass. I.B.10 fasc. 419). A monastic canon collection (rules on obedience, hospitality, theft, dress, etc.), one of the few Coptic monastic rule corpora besides Shenoute's Canons (Layton 2014) and the Pachomian rules (Veilleux 1981).

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
Coptic Scriptorium · TEI XML · CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported urn:cts:copticLit:johannes.canons.monbfa:308-330

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Apa John the Archimandrite — 2 record(s); match basis author_only.

Record	Citation
Christianity and monasticism in northern Egypt : Beni Suef, Giza, Cairo, and the Nile Delta · 2017 · eng	"Christianity and monasticism in northern Egypt : Beni Suef, Giza, Cairo, and the Nile Delta." Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2017]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990151195390203941
Christianity and monasticism in Middle Egypt · 2015 · eng	"Christianity and monasticism in Middle Egypt." Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2015]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990145043840203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Canons of Apa John the Archimandrite” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-apa-john-canons