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The Church Fathers · c. 620
The Pandects of Holy Scripture
Antiochus of Palestine · 7th century
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What it is
A hundred and thirty short chapters on the virtues and vices, compiled at the monastery of Mar Saba for monks scattered by the Persian sack of Jerusalem.
Why it lasted
A portable substitute for a monastic library at a moment when the libraries themselves had been burned.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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