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14 lines · a line number is a link to itselfA part of a container file (WORK-9): lines 9,164–9,185, pdf pp. 131-131 of New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius (Evelyn-White 1926) — a witness of Sermon on the Archangel Gabriel by Archelaus (ruling WORK-1: a container is read inside the compositions it holds). Only this range is shown here; the whole file holds every part. Fragment only: this is the only copy of the work served on this site, and it is a fragment of the work.
| ref | L0 witness (OCR) |
|---|---|
| 1 | X. ENCOMIUM ON THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL |
| 2 | Parchment. Single leaf (Cairo, no. 39), 26.2 x 20 cm., numbered ⲕ︦ⲇ︦. The hand is a good-sized, rounded |
| 3 | uncial, perhaps the same as the hand of No. x11. The leaf has been exposed to rain and much of the text is |
| 4 | indecipherable, |
| 5 | The text deals with the Archangel Gabriel and may be from the Encomium by Archelaus, extant in Cod. |
| 6 | Vat. Copt. L1x. No doubt the leaf at Leipzig (Cod. Tisch. xxvi1, 21), paged ⲓ︦ⲍ︦, Ti, belonged to the same ms. |
| 7 | The following passages may lead to the identification of the fragment. |
| 8 | Recto 1-8: |
| 9 | ⲟⲩⲟϩ ⲛⲉⲁⲩϫⲱ ⲙⲙⲟⲥ ⲇⲉ ⲁ̀ⲗⲏⲑⲱⲥ ⲟⲩⲛⲓϣϯ ⲧⲉ ⲧϫⲟⲙ ⲙ̃ⲡⲓⲁⲣⲭⲏⲁⲅⲅⲉⲗⲟⲥ ⲉⲑⲟⲩⲁⲃ ⲅⲁⲃⲣ[ⲡ]ⲏⲗ ⲟⲩⲟϩ a ⲫ︦ϯ︦ |
| 10 | ⲓ̄ⲣⲓ ⲛ̄ⲟⲩⲥ[ⲟⲃ]ϯ ⲛⲉⲙⲁⲛ ϩⲓⲧⲉⲛ ⲡⲉϥⲁⲣⲭⲏⲁⲅⲅⲉⲗⲟⲥ ⲉⲑⲟⲩⲁⲃ. |
| 11 | Verso 1-6: |
| 12 | ⲁⲥϣⲱⲡⲓ ⲇⲉ ⲟⲛ ϧⲉⲛ [ⲛϫ]ⲓⲛ[ⲑⲣ]ⲟⲩⲕⲱⲧ ⲙⲡⲥⲟⲃⲧ ⲛⲧⲉ ϯⲉⲕⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ̀ ⲉⲑⲟⲩⲁⲃ ⲛⲉⲙ ⲡⲉ[ⲥⲁⲅⲓⲟⲛ ⲛⲑⲩⲥⲓⲁⲥⲧⲏⲣⲓⲟⲛ |
| 13 | ⲁⲩϩⲓⲧⲟⲧⲟⲩ] ⲉ ⲧⲁϩⲟ... 4-7. ⲁϥⲓ̄ ⲉϧⲟⲩⲛ ⲛ̄ϫⲉ ⲟⲩ ϧⲉⲗϣⲏⲣⲓ ⲛⲁⲫⲑⲁⲣⲧⲟⲥ ⲁϥⲟϩⲓ ⲉⲣⲁⲧϥ ⲁϥϫⲟⲩϣⲧ ⲉⲣⲱⲟⲩ ... |
| 14 | 1 See Leipoldt, ap. Vollers, Kat., p. 416. |
Provenance
- title
- Evelyn-White, The Monasteries of the Wâdi ’n Natrûn, Part I: New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius (1926) — OCR
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- 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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- 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:
X. Encomium on the Archangel Gabriel (Archelaus) — lines 9164–9185, pdf pp. 131-131 (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/L9164-9185/.
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