Rule

Regula Pachomii

Written about 320 to 346, probably in Pbow (now Faw Qibli, Egypt). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

The first rule for monks who live together.

Rule · first written in Coptic (whole text only in the Latin of Jerome, 404) · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable: The rules grew from the first monastery (about 320) to his death in 346, and after (Veilleux, Pachomian Koinonia vol. 2, 1981)
Place written probable: Pbow was the head house from about 337; the first rules were for Tabennesi (Veilleux 1981)
Begun at Tabennesi, a few kilometres away.