Manuscript Tradition
The text of the Apostolic Tradition was part of two main ancient collections of the Church Orders, the Alexandrine Sinodos and the Verona Palimpsest. The Alexandrine Sinodos was re-discovered in the 19th century: the Bohairic Coptic version was published in 1848 by Tattam, the Sahidic Coptic version was published in 1883 by Paul de Lagarde, the Ge'ez and Arabic versions in 1904 by George William Horner. The second text found in these version was named by the publishers Egyptian Church Order and corresponds to what is now usually known as Apostolic Tradition.
The text was also part of the Latin collection known as Verona Palimpsest, where it takes the third position. This version was published in 1900 by Edmund Hauler but only half of the text was preserved.
A critical edition was produced by Gregory Dix in 1937, and in 1946 by B. Botte
Fragments which contain chapter 36 of the probable Greek original text were found by M. Richard in 1975 One of this fragments includes the probable original title of the text, Diataxis (Ordinances) of the Holy Apostles.
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