Life of Paul of Tamma

Life of Apa Paul of Tamma (Coptic; fragmentary) · anonymous (Life of Paul of Tamma) · 4th c. (subject; text transmitted fragmentarily) · hagiography

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

Why this is in the register

Coptic Scriptorium's TEI header records translation 'none' (urn:cts:copticLit:lives.paul_tamma.paths_ed:1-10). HOLLIS 'Paul of Tamma' returns the Italian edition Opere (Rome: C.I.M., 1988; languages cop;ita; HOLLIS alma990044822230203941) and Harmless, Desert Christians (2004), whose Appendix 8.2 prints an excerpt of Paul of Tamma's treatise On the Cell, not the Life. Crossref finds a French translation of the short recension: 'Traduction de la Recension breve de la vie de Paul de Tamma', Studia Orientalia Christiana (2008), DOI 10.1484/j.socc.3.280. HOLLIS 'Paul of Tamma English' (3 hits) contains no translation. No English translation located.

c. 4,100 Coptic tokens across 2 TEI files; the text survives only in fragments (Amelineau 1888 pp. 759-769; Orlandi 1974 pp. 154-161; further unpublished folios, per the TEI bibl). Any English translation would be of a partly reconstructed Life.

Existing translations recorded

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

Electronic text

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: "Life of Paul of Tamma" — 1 record(s); match basis author_title.

Sources checked

• https://api.crossref.org/works?query.bibliographic=Life%20of%20Paul%20of%20Tamma&rows=5
• https://data.copticscriptorium.org/urn:cts:copticLit:lives.paul_tamma.paths_ed:1-10
• https://github.com/copticScriptorium/corpora/tree/master/life-paul-tamma
• HOLLIS search — Paul of Tamma English
• HOLLIS search — Paul of Tamma

Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Paul of Tamma” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-paul-of-tamma-life