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Licence: public domain — Hugh G. Evelyn-White (d. 1924), completed by W. Hauser (d. 1959) and W. E. Crum (d. 1944), The Monasteries of the Wâdi ’n Natrûn, Part I: New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition 1926; public domain in the United States by age (published before 1930) AND in Canada by the LICENCES.md §7 author-death-year rule (died ≤ 1971); scan from archive.org, identifier monasteriesofwdi01evel, fetched 2026-09-23; the item states: nothing — no licenseurl, no rights, no possible-copyright-status (Princeton Theological Seminary Library scan; the alternate copy monasteriesofwad0000evel states nothing either; the Met's own MetPublications page could not be read by script, HTTP 429)
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33 lines · a line number is a link to itselfA part of a container file (WORK-9): lines 7,404–7,448, pdf pp. 111-111 of New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius (Evelyn-White 1926) — a witness of Mysteries of John (ruling WORK-1: a container is read inside the compositions it holds). Only this range is shown here; the whole file holds every part.
| ref | L0 witness (OCR) |
|---|---|
| 1 | VII. THE MYSTERIES OF SAINT JOHN |
| 2 | Parchment. A single fragment (Cairo, no. 47), 11 x 15 cm., from a small leaf of which neither the top |
| 3 | nor bottom is preserved. The hand (distinguished especially by the forms of ⲙ 3, ⲩ =, ϩ) is identical with |
| 4 | that of No. xxx (cp. Plate XI A): the only stop used is = (black; by first hand). |
| 5 | The text, though small, is important as establishing the existence of a Bohairic version of the Mysteries |
| 6 | of S. Jobn, whereof the Sahidic version was published (from B.M. Or. 7026) by Dr Budge in 1913.1 The frag- |
| 7 | ment corresponds to the lower part of ⲣ. 70 in that edition and to parts of pp. Re—A= in the Sahidic ms. |
| 8 | * ⲙⲉ ⲙ |
| 9 | ....]ⲛⲓⲟⲩⲧ[ⲁϩ ⲙⲡⲕⲁϩⲓ ⲟⲩ]ⲟϩ |
| 10 | ⲡⲧ]ⲟⲩⲁ̃ϣⲁⲓ̄ |
| 11 | Ⲉϣⲱⲡ] fine ⲧ[ⲥ]ⲁⲗⲡⲓⲛⲝ ⲙⲟⲩϯ |
| 12 | ϣⲁⲣⲉ] ⲟⲩⲥⲙⲏ ϣⲱⲡⲓ ⲛⲧⲉ ⲡⲓ- |
| 13 | ⲙⲟⲩⲛ]ϩⲱⲟⲩ ⲉϫⲉⲛ ⲡⲓⲛⲁϯϩ |
| 14 | Ⲉ]ⲣⲉ ⲛⲛ̄ⲟⲩⲧ[ⲁ]ϩ afai-e[pe ⲡⲓ‐ |
| 15 | ⲙⲟⲩⲛϩⲱⲟⲩ ϣⲁϥⲑⲣⲟ[ⲩ ⲧⲏⲣⲟⲩ |
| 16 | * * * |
| 17 | ⲥⲧ Joo |
| 18 | ⲁⲩ[ ..ⲉ̄ ⲡϣⲱ ⲛ̄]ⲛⲓⲫⲟⲩ[ⲓ |
| 19 | Ϩⲏⲡⲡⲉ ⲁⲓ̄ⲧⲁⲙ[ⲟⲕ] ⲉ ⲛⲓⲙⲧ[ⲥⲧⲏⲣⲓⲟⲛ |
| 20 | ⲧⲏⲣⲟⲩ ⲛ̄ⲧⲉ ⲛⲓⲫⲏⲟ[ⲩⲓ ⲱ ⲓⲱⲁⲛ‐ |
| 21 | ⲛⲏⲥ |
| 22 | Ⲡⲉ]ϫⲏⲓ ⲛ̃ⲡⲓⲭⲉⲣⲟⲩⲃⲓⲛ ϫⲉ[ⲡⲁ‐ |
| 23 | ST ϯⲟⲩⲱϣ ⲉ̄ Emi ϫⲉ ⲟ[ⲩ ⲡⲉⲧϥⲁⲓ |
| 24 | €] ⲁϣⲁⲓ̄ ⲛⲓϧⲁⲣⲁ[ⲃⲁⲓ ϩⲱⲟⲩ ⲉⲧⲉ ⲉϩⲣⲏⲓ] ϧⲁ ⲧⲣⲉ ⲉ̀ⲥⲁϣ[ⲓ |
| 25 | ϣⲁ]ⲣⲉ ⲛⲓⲣ[ⲱⲙⲓ] ⲉⲣϩⲟϯ ⲛϧⲏⲧⲟⲩ Ⲟⲩⲟϩ ⲡ]ⲉ[ϫⲉ ⲛ̄ϫ]ⲉ ⲡⲓⲭ [ⲉⲣⲟⲩⲃⲓⲛ |
| 26 | * * * * * * |
| 27 | *[The dew cometh upon the earth and causeth to grow] the fruits of the earth, and to increase. If the |
| 28 | trumpet? doth not sound, there is a sound of rain upon the earth; and the fruits spring up, the rain causing |
| 29 | them all to increase. The thunders also whereof men are afraid. . . |
| 30 | ..Ⲡⲉ waters which are] above the Heavens. Lo, | have declared unto thee all the mysteries of the |
| 31 | Heavens, O John.” |
| 32 | I said unto the Cherubim: “My Lord, | desire to know what it is that beareth up the Heaven so that it |
| 33 | is suspended.” And the Cherubim said. . . |
Provenance
- title
- Evelyn-White, The Monasteries of the Wâdi ’n Natrûn, Part I: New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius (1926) — OCR
- dialect
- mixed
- source
- corpus/incoming/w-boh-evelyn-white-wadi-natrun-i-1926/monasteriesofwdi01evel.pdf (staged 2026-09-23 by worker W-BOH; provenance, terms as fetched and SHA-256 in corpus/incoming/w-boh-evelyn-white-wadi-natrun-i-1926/README.md); OCR by tools/batch_ocr.py (A5d, tools/run_a5d.sh), model coptic+eng; page files: L0/ocr/Incoming/monasteriesofwdi01evel/pages
- licence
- public domain — Hugh G. Evelyn-White (d. 1924), completed by W. Hauser (d. 1959) and W. E. Crum (d. 1944), The Monasteries of the Wâdi ’n Natrûn, Part I: New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition 1926; public domain in the United States by age (published before 1930) AND in Canada by the LICENCES.md §7 author-death-year rule (died ≤ 1971); scan from archive.org, identifier monasteriesofwdi01evel, fetched 2026-09-23; the item states: nothing — no licenseurl, no rights, no possible-copyright-status (Princeton Theological Seminary Library scan; the alternate copy monasteriesofwad0000evel states nothing either; the Met's own MetPublications page could not be read by script, HTTP 429)
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- OCR
- tesseract coptic+eng (models/coptic.traineddata v3c), 300 dpi, psm 3, 476 of 476 pages, mean word confidence 80.8 (Tesseract's own figure — NOT a CER, CLAUDE.md §1.3); apparatus language eng (genre_map). Raw page text: the edition's apparatus, translation and running heads are interleaved with the Coptic, and a Greek or Latin word can come out as Coptic letters. `=== page N ===` markers are PDF pages
- file
- Hagiography/New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius (Evelyn-White 1926)/Evelyn-White, The Monasteries of the Wâdi ’n Natrûn, Part I- New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius (1926.ocr.L0.txt
L0 witness (OCR)
Cite as:
VII. The Mysteries of Saint John — lines 7404–7448, pdf pp. 111-111 (Evelyn-White, The Monasteries of the Wâdi ’n Natrûn, Part I: New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius (1926) — OCR). corpus/incoming/w-boh-evelyn-white-wadi-natrun-i-1926/monasteriesofwdi01evel.pdf (staged 2026-09-23 by worker W-BOH; provenance, terms as fetched and SHA-256 in corpus/incoming/w-boh-evelyn-white-wadi-natrun-i-1926/README.md); OCR by tools/batch_ocr.py (A5d, tools/run_a5d.sh), model coptic+eng; page files: L0/ocr/Incoming/monasteriesofwdi01evel/pages. Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/hagiography/new-coptic-texts-from-the-monastery-of-saint-macarius-evelyn-white-1926/evelyn-white-the-monasteries-of-the-wadi-n-natrun-part-i-new-coptic-texts-from-t-69082f/L7404-7448/.
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