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Title: Besa
Alternative Title: The Coptic encyclopedia, volume 2
Creator: Kuhn, K.H
Contributor: Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988 (editor-in-chief)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1991
Publication Information: Macmillan
Claremont Graduate University. School of Religion
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia
Rights Information: Copyright 1991 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
Type: text
Format: application/pdf
Identifier: cce00300.pdf
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cce/id/345
Language: English
Subject: Besa, Abbot of Athripe, active 5th century
Coptic Christian Saints
Abbots
Asceticism
Coptic language - Bohairic dialect
Coptic language - Sahidic dialect
Literature
Manuscripts
Monks
Monasteries
Shenute, ca. 348-466
The White Monastery
Titles of honor and nobility
Dayr al-Abyaḍ (Sūhāj, Egypt)
Coptic monasteries
Eulogies
Source: The Coptic encyclopedia, volume 2, (CE:378a-379a). Originally published in print by Macmillan, reproduced with permission.
Relation: Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia - http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/cce

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