Henry Tattam

Henry Tattam (28 December 1789 – 8 January 1868, Stanford Rivers, Essex) was a Church of England clergyman and Coptic scholar.

[1] He was Archdeacon of Bedford from 1845 to 1866, Rector of Stanford Rivers, Essex from 1849, and a Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the Queen from 1853.

[2] Tattam was the author of various theological and philological works, including several editions and translations of Coptic texts.

Tattam visited Egypt and the Holy Land in 1838–9, meeting the patriarch and acquiring Coptic and Syriac manuscripts for the British Museum (manuscripts now in the British Library).

[3] In 1848 Tattam published The Apostolical Constitutions, or Canons of the Apostles,[4] which includes the so-called Alexandrine Sinodos (or Clementine Heptateuch) made of the Apostolic Church-Ordinance, the Egyptian Church Order and a free version of the eighth book of the Apostolic Constitutions.