NHC IX,1 Melchizedek

Source: OCR (300 dpi, psm 6 per crop of the Coptic block, model coptic = models/coptic.traineddata v3c) of pp. 94-114 of ~/Transmission/Coptic Gnostic Library/Coptic Gnostic Library vol 5 - Unknown.pdf = *The Coptic Gnostic Library* vol. 5 (Brill 2000); the Coptic text pages tools/cgl_stage.py selected (7 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 B18 psm-3 read because the collation with Marcion improved (16.48 % -> 4.44 % disagreement; corpus/incoming/coptic-gnostic-library/_logs/reread.tsv)

Attribution: Coptic text of Melchizedek as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 5 (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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L0 witness (OCR)

title

NHC IX,1 Melchizedek

dialect

sahidic

source

OCR (300 dpi, psm 6 per crop of the Coptic block, model coptic = models/coptic.traineddata v3c) of pp. 94-114 of ~/Transmission/Coptic Gnostic Library/Coptic Gnostic Library vol 5 - Unknown.pdf = *The Coptic Gnostic Library* vol. 5 (Brill 2000); the Coptic text pages tools/cgl_stage.py selected (7 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 B18 psm-3 read because the collation with Marcion improved (16.48 % -> 4.44 % 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 Melchizedek as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 5 (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 73.1 over 7 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 4.44 % disagreement (the B18 psm-3 read it replaced: 16.48 %)

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Apocrypha & Gnostic/Nag Hammadi/Codex IX/Melchizedek.sahidic.cgl.L0.txt

L1 Cairene

title

NHC IX,1 Melchizedek — Cairene

dialect

bohairic

source

generated from Melchizedek.sahidic.cgl.L0.txt (OCR (300 dpi, psm 6 per crop of the Coptic block, model coptic = models/coptic.traineddata v3c) of pp. 94-114 of ~/Trans)

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Coptic text of Melchizedek as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 5 (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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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=1 editorial_lacuna=41 jinkim_unified=5 l2_1b_cairene=1 lexeme_L1-S-3=4 lexeme_L1-S-8=1 numeral_single_ambiguous=79 stroke_kept=63 stroke_unified=219 tokens=576

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Apocrypha & Gnostic/Nag Hammadi/Codex IX/Melchizedek.sahidic.cgl.L1.txt

L2 Kemetic

title

NHC IX,1 Melchizedek — Kemetic

dialect

bohairic

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generated from Melchizedek.sahidic.cgl.L1.txt

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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Coptic text of Melchizedek as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 5 (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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tools/coptic_to_kemetic.py convert() on the L1 text (letter rules of DECISIONS.md 2026-09-08)

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Apocrypha & Gnostic/Nag Hammadi/Codex IX/Melchizedek.sahidic.cgl.L2.txt

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NHC IX,1 Melchizedek. OCR (300 dpi, psm 6 per crop of the Coptic block, model coptic = models/coptic.traineddata v3c) of pp. 94-114 of ~/Transmission/Coptic Gnostic Library/Coptic Gnostic Library vol 5 - Unknown.pdf = *The Coptic Gnostic Library* vol. 5 (Brill 2000); the Coptic text pages tools/cgl_stage.py selected (7 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 B18 psm-3 read because the collation with Marcion improved (16.48 % -> 4.44 % 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-ix/melchizedek.sahidic.cgl/. Coptic text of Melchizedek as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 5 (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.