St Athanasius
The Life of Antony
Translated by H. Ellershaw, 1892
What this is
The life of the first desert monk, written by the bishop of Alexandria soon after Antony died in 356, and the book that made monasticism a movement. Augustine heard it told in Milan, and it is part of the story of his conversion in the Confessions.
How it is set
One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.
What is not here
Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.