NHC V,2 The Apocalypse of Paul

Source: OCR (300 dpi, psm 6 per crop of the Coptic block, model coptic = models/coptic.traineddata v3c) of pp. 462-472 of ~/Transmission/Coptic Gnostic Library/Coptic Gnostic Library vol 3 - Unknown.pdf = *The Coptic Gnostic Library* vol. 3 (Brill 2000); the Coptic text pages tools/cgl_stage.py selected (6 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 (2.74 % -> 2.71 % disagreement; corpus/incoming/coptic-gnostic-library/_logs/reread.tsv)

Attribution: Coptic text of The Apocalypse of Paul as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 3 (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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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 V,2 The Apocalypse of Paul

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sahidic

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OCR (300 dpi, psm 6 per crop of the Coptic block, model coptic = models/coptic.traineddata v3c) of pp. 462-472 of ~/Transmission/Coptic Gnostic Library/Coptic Gnostic Library vol 3 - Unknown.pdf = *The Coptic Gnostic Library* vol. 3 (Brill 2000); the Coptic text pages tools/cgl_stage.py selected (6 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 (2.74 % -> 2.71 % 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 Apocalypse of Paul as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 3 (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 75.5 over 6 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 2.71 % disagreement (the B18c re-read read it replaced: 2.74 %)

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Apocrypha & Gnostic/Nag Hammadi/Codex V/The Apocalypse of Paul.sahidic.cgl.L0.txt

L1 Cairene

title

NHC V,2 The Apocalypse of Paul — Cairene

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bohairic

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generated from The Apocalypse of Paul.sahidic.cgl.L0.txt (OCR (300 dpi, psm 6 per crop of the Coptic block, model coptic = models/coptic.traineddata v3c) of pp. 462-472 of ~/Tran)

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Coptic text of The Apocalypse of Paul as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 3 (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=5 editorial_lacuna=12 hyphen_rejoined=1 jinkim_unified=9 l2_1b_cairene=4 lexeme_L1-S-3=4 numeral=1 numeral_single_ambiguous=61 stroke_kept=115 stroke_unified=171 tokens=812

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Apocrypha & Gnostic/Nag Hammadi/Codex V/The Apocalypse of Paul.sahidic.cgl.L1.txt

L2 Kemetic

title

NHC V,2 The Apocalypse of Paul — Kemetic

dialect

bohairic

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generated from The Apocalypse of Paul.sahidic.cgl.L1.txt

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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Coptic text of The Apocalypse of Paul as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 3 (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 V/The Apocalypse of Paul.sahidic.cgl.L2.txt

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NHC V,2 The Apocalypse of Paul. OCR (300 dpi, psm 6 per crop of the Coptic block, model coptic = models/coptic.traineddata v3c) of pp. 462-472 of ~/Transmission/Coptic Gnostic Library/Coptic Gnostic Library vol 3 - Unknown.pdf = *The Coptic Gnostic Library* vol. 3 (Brill 2000); the Coptic text pages tools/cgl_stage.py selected (6 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 (2.74 % -> 2.71 % 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-v/the-apocalypse-of-paul.sahidic.cgl/. Coptic text of The Apocalypse of Paul as printed in *The Coptic Gnostic Library*, gen. ed. James M. Robinson, vol. 3 (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.