NHC I,1 The Prayer of the Apostle Paul

Source: OCR (300 dpi, psm 6 per crop of the Coptic block, model coptic = models/coptic.traineddata v3c) of pp. 48-48 of ~/Transmission/Coptic Gnostic Library/Coptic Gnostic Library vol 1 - Unknown.pdf = *The Coptic Gnostic Library* vol. 1 (Brill 2000); the Coptic text pages tools/cgl_stage.py selected (1 pages in all), each re-read by tools/cgl_reread.py — the block cropped on the PDF text layer with the printed line numbers left outside, the editors' square brackets taken out of the image and put back as [ ] — and filed in place of the B18c re-read read because the collation with Marcion improved (1.08 % -> 0.96 % disagreement; corpus/incoming/coptic-gnostic-library/_logs/reread.tsv)

Attribution: Coptic text of The Prayer of the Apostle Paul as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2000; reprint of the Nag Hammadi Studies edition), read by OCR. The ancient Coptic text is public domain; the edition's apparatus, notes and English translation are Brill's and are not reproduced. OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.

Licence: public domain — the ancient Coptic text of the Nag Hammadi codices (4th century), which no modern edition can bring back into copyright. The EDITION IS IN COPYRIGHT: *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, general editor J. M. Robinson, Brill 2000 (paperback reprint of Nag Hammadi Studies / Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 1975-1995), © Koninklijke Brill NV — its apparatus, notes, introductions and English translation are NOT reproduced in this repository and stay internal. RULED by Yousef 2026-09-12: "the ancient Coptic text is PD; the edition's apparatus, translation and notes are not" (outputs/TERMS_NOTES.md §B; LICENCES.md §12.7)

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NHC I,1 The Prayer of the Apostle Paul

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OCR (300 dpi, psm 6 per crop of the Coptic block, model coptic = models/coptic.traineddata v3c) of pp. 48-48 of ~/Transmission/Coptic Gnostic Library/Coptic Gnostic Library vol 1 - Unknown.pdf = *The Coptic Gnostic Library* vol. 1 (Brill 2000); the Coptic text pages tools/cgl_stage.py selected (1 pages in all), each re-read by tools/cgl_reread.py — the block cropped on the PDF text layer with the printed line numbers left outside, the editors' square brackets taken out of the image and put back as [ ] — and filed in place of the B18c re-read read because the collation with Marcion improved (1.08 % -> 0.96 % disagreement; corpus/incoming/coptic-gnostic-library/_logs/reread.tsv)

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public domain — the ancient Coptic text of the Nag Hammadi codices (4th century), which no modern edition can bring back into copyright. The EDITION IS IN COPYRIGHT: *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, general editor J. M. Robinson, Brill 2000 (paperback reprint of Nag Hammadi Studies / Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 1975-1995), © Koninklijke Brill NV — its apparatus, notes, introductions and English translation are NOT reproduced in this repository and stay internal. RULED by Yousef 2026-09-12: "the ancient Coptic text is PD; the edition's apparatus, translation and notes are not" (outputs/TERMS_NOTES.md §B; LICENCES.md §12.7)

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Coptic text of The Prayer of the Apostle Paul as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2000; reprint of the Nag Hammadi Studies edition), read by OCR. The ancient Coptic text is public domain; the edition's apparatus, notes and English translation are Brill's and are not reproduced. OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.

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mean word confidence 67.9 over 1 pages (hOCR x_wconf per crop, tools/cgl_reread.py); NOT a CER — the measured figure for this model is A2's kept-out 4.52 %; against Marcion 0.96 % disagreement (the B18c re-read read it replaced: 1.08 %)

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Apocrypha & Gnostic/Nag Hammadi/Codex I/The Prayer of the Apostle Paul.lycopolitan.cgl.L0.txt

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NHC I,1 The Prayer of the Apostle Paul. OCR (300 dpi, psm 6 per crop of the Coptic block, model coptic = models/coptic.traineddata v3c) of pp. 48-48 of ~/Transmission/Coptic Gnostic Library/Coptic Gnostic Library vol 1 - Unknown.pdf = *The Coptic Gnostic Library* vol. 1 (Brill 2000); the Coptic text pages tools/cgl_stage.py selected (1 pages in all), each re-read by tools/cgl_reread.py — the block cropped on the PDF text layer with the printed line numbers left outside, the editors' square brackets taken out of the image and put back as [ ] — and filed in place of the B18c re-read read because the collation with Marcion improved (1.08 % -> 0.96 % disagreement; corpus/incoming/coptic-gnostic-library/_logs/reread.tsv). Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/apocrypha-and-gnostic/nag-hammadi/codex-i/the-prayer-of-the-apostle-paul.lycopolitan.cgl/. Coptic text of The Prayer of the Apostle Paul as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2000; reprint of the Nag Hammadi Studies edition), read by OCR. The ancient Coptic text is public domain; the edition's apparatus, notes and English translation are Brill's and are not reproduced. OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.