NHC IV,2 The Gospel of the Egyptians

Source: OCR (300 dpi, psm 6 per column crop, model coptic = models/coptic.traineddata v3c) of this witness's column on pp. 991-1089 of ~/Transmission/Coptic Gnostic Library/Coptic Gnostic Library vol 2 - Unknown.pdf = *The Coptic Gnostic Library* vol. 2 (Brill 2000), a SYNOPTIC edition (49 pages carry this witness); columns cut at the measured gutter and the editors' English left out by tools/cgl_synoptic.py (corpus/incoming/coptic-gnostic-library/_logs/synoptic_pages.tsv has one row per page and column)

Attribution: Coptic text of The Gospel of the Egyptians as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 2 (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)

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

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The layers have different numbers of lines, so they are lined up page by page, and within a page line by line by letter similarity; a line one layer has and another lacks (the Cairene layer leaves out lines that are not Coptic) gets an empty cell.

L0 witness (OCR)

title

NHC IV,2 The Gospel of the Egyptians

dialect

sahidic

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OCR (300 dpi, psm 6 per column crop, model coptic = models/coptic.traineddata v3c) of this witness's column on pp. 991-1089 of ~/Transmission/Coptic Gnostic Library/Coptic Gnostic Library vol 2 - Unknown.pdf = *The Coptic Gnostic Library* vol. 2 (Brill 2000), a SYNOPTIC edition (49 pages carry this witness); columns cut at the measured gutter and the editors' English left out by tools/cgl_synoptic.py (corpus/incoming/coptic-gnostic-library/_logs/synoptic_pages.tsv has one row per page and column)

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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 Gospel of the Egyptians as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 2 (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.

OCR

mean word confidence 70.5 over 49 pages (Tesseract TSV conf, tools/cgl_synoptic.py); NOT a CER — the measured figure for this model is A2's kept-out 4.52 %

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Apocrypha & Gnostic/Nag Hammadi/Codex IV/The Gospel of the Egyptians.sahidic.cgl.L0.txt

L1 Cairene

title

NHC IV,2 The Gospel of the Egyptians — Cairene

dialect

bohairic

source

generated from The Gospel of the Egyptians.sahidic.cgl.L0.txt (OCR (300 dpi, psm 6 per column crop, model coptic = models/coptic.traineddata v3c) of this witness's column on pp. 991-1)

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Coptic text of The Gospel of the Egyptians as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 2 (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.

generated by

tools/segment_sahidic.py segment() (SC-9 c) then tools/sahidic_to_cairene.py (route D, C3a 2026-09-24; tier c, ROUTE-2 2026-09-26) then tools/cairene.py from_witness dialect=bohairic on the intermediate (L1 = Cairene(N_B(D(N_S(L0)))), RI-038; word division church); Sahidic N stage counts: abbrev=19 editorial_lacuna=84 hyphen_rejoined=1 jinkim_unified=6 l1_morphs_unsplit=1 l2_1b_cairene=10 l2_1b_sahidic_table=1 lexeme_L1-S-3=6 lexeme_open=4 n_morphs_fallback=1 numeral=11 numeral_single_ambiguous=320 stroke_kept=448 stroke_unified=799 tokens=2620

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Apocrypha & Gnostic/Nag Hammadi/Codex IV/The Gospel of the Egyptians.sahidic.cgl.L1.txt

L2 Kemetic

title

NHC IV,2 The Gospel of the Egyptians — Kemetic

dialect

bohairic

source

generated from The Gospel of the Egyptians.sahidic.cgl.L1.txt

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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Coptic text of The Gospel of the Egyptians as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 2 (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.

generated by

tools/coptic_to_kemetic.py convert() on the L1 text (letter rules of DECISIONS.md 2026-09-08)

file

Apocrypha & Gnostic/Nag Hammadi/Codex IV/The Gospel of the Egyptians.sahidic.cgl.L2.txt

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NHC IV,2 The Gospel of the Egyptians. OCR (300 dpi, psm 6 per column crop, model coptic = models/coptic.traineddata v3c) of this witness's column on pp. 991-1089 of ~/Transmission/Coptic Gnostic Library/Coptic Gnostic Library vol 2 - Unknown.pdf = *The Coptic Gnostic Library* vol. 2 (Brill 2000), a SYNOPTIC edition (49 pages carry this witness); columns cut at the measured gutter and the editors' English left out by tools/cgl_synoptic.py (corpus/incoming/coptic-gnostic-library/_logs/synoptic_pages.tsv has one row per page and column). Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/apocrypha-and-gnostic/nag-hammadi/codex-iv/the-gospel-of-the-egyptians.sahidic.cgl/. Coptic text of The Gospel of the Egyptians as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 2 (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.