Incipit: ἀμμώνιος μὲν ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεὺς πολλήν
Date: undated
CPG: 3465
TLG: 2018.013
Earliest ms.:
Text: E. Nestle – K. Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, p. 84*-89*.
English Translation: www.tertullian.org has the letter to Carpianum and the Canons
Notes: The letter to Carpianus explains why Eusebius devised his “Canons.” The letter often precedes the actual canons in manuscripts. Both parts are preserved in Greek, Latin, Coptic, Syriac, and Armenian.
Bibliography: Grafton, Anthony. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
Crawford, Matthew R. “Ammonius of Alexandria, Eusebius of Caesarea and the Origins of Gospels Scholarship.” New Testament Studies 61 (2015): 1–29.

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