This is the English edition of a book published in the USA in 2011 by Cascade Books. According to the author it was written about twenty years earlier (so c. 1980). It also contains as an appendix a shorter presentation of the same material first published in The Pachomian monastic library at the Chester Beatty Library and the Bibliothèque Bodmer (Occasional Papers of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, 19) (Claremont 1990). There are two main aims to the book. The first is to produce evidence that manuscripts from a number of other collections, including the Chester Beatty Library, are part of the same find as nearly all the Bodmer papyri. The second is to argue that this find was made in the neighbourood of Dishnā and that it represents the library of a Pachomian monastery. The book is divided into two parts, but they do not reflect these two goals. The first part, of two chapters, deals with material in the Bodmer and Chester Beatty collections. The first chapter of the second part discusses manuscripts in other locations. On the whole these chapters depend on hypotheses based on scanty evidence which is all that one can expect from the secretive world of dealings in manuscripts. Some of the material provides background or attempts to draw connections with varying degrees of success. The tone of the book changes in the fourth chapter, which is a report of the finding and subsequent sale to dealers of the Dishnā papers. The evidence seems to be based upon interviews with a number of people conducted by the author at several dates between 1975 and 1981. Whatever its accuracy, it remains oral testimony with for the most part no documentary attestation, recordings or transcriptions. Fascinatingly, it includes many of the themes of earlier reports of manuscript finds, including the ignorance of the ‘peasants’ who found them and the burning of some pages (see p. 110), along with the unnecessary destruction of others. The last chapter of the book produces the evidence that the collection, which contains Pachomian material, is from a monastic library. There is also at the end a list of editions of the manuscripts considered by Robinson to be from the find (date of most recent publication 1991), a dramatis personae, a glossary, bibliography (date of most recent publication 1993) and indices. The book is not particularly well produced. There is no page 82, so that all subsequent odd numbers are on verso pages.