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32 lines · a line number is a link to itselfA part of a container file (WORK-9): lines 9,329–9,366, pdf pp. 133-133 of New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius (Evelyn-White 1926) — a witness of Encomium on the Three Children (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) |
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| 1 | ⲭⲏ. ENCOMIUM ON THE THREE CHILDREN |
| 2 | Parchment. Two leaves (Cairo, nos. 18, ⲓⲑ) from one Ms., measuring 29 xX 21 and 29.5 x 21 cm. No |
| 3 | page or folio numbers are distinguishable. Large fragments have been torn off the upper right and lower left |
| 4 | corners of the second leaf. Both are stained a deep brown, having apparently been soaked in oil, and when |
| 5 | found were caked with mud. The hand is a good-sized uncial probably of the tenth or eleventh century. The |
| 6 | only stop used is a high = (black ink). |
| 7 | Other fragments of the same ms. are extant. (1) Two leaves (forming a single sheet), 29.5 x 23 cm., were |
| 8 | in Sept. 1908 in the possession of a Spanish duke.! The first leaf begins: ⲛⲑⲟⲕ ⲇⲉ ⲁⲣⲉϩ ⲉⲣⲱⲟⲩ .....] |
| 9 | ⲡⲉⲕⲙⲱⲓⲧ ⲉⲧϩⲏⲡ [.. Jor ⲛⲉⲙⲱⲟⲩ ⲁⲛ ⲉ ⲡⲧⲏ[ⲣϥ]- ϫⲉ ϧⲉⲛ ⲡⲓⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲉⲧ [ⲁⲕ|ⲛⲁⲟⲓⲧⲟⲩ ⲛⲱⲟⲩ ~ [ⲉⲛ ⲟⲩⲙⲟⲩ ⲭⲛⲁⲙⲟⲩ |
| 10 | ⲛⲑⲟⲕ. “And thus Nebuchadnezzar took them to Babylon, put them in his treasury and sealed them with his |
| 11 | seal (woowp). So he took Joakim and Jekonias to Babylon. And when the King had regained his calm |
| 12 | (ⲉⲣⲛⲏⲫⲓⲛ), he bade ⲙⲁⲛⲏ, his chief eunuch (cp. Dan. 1, 11), to bring him chosen royal youths from the |
| 13 | Judaean captives. Thus were the Three Holy Children brought to him ; and Nebuchadnezzar rejoiced at their |
| 14 | disposition and knowledge. He bade give them of the perfumed wine which he himself drank and of the royal |
| 15 | food; but they decided not to eat of such meat. ..”’* In the second leaf (numbered on the verso A) the Devil |
| 16 | urges the King to fashion his image ⲧⲉⲕϩⲓⲕⲱⲛ ⲛⲉⲙ ⲧⲉⲕⲥⲧⲩⲗⲏ) and set it up in the ⲕⲟⲓⲛⲏⲣⲁ ⲕⲟⲓ finpa |
| 17 | “the field of Ur”)* in the land of Babylon and command all men to worship it. The leaf ends: ⲡⲁⲓⲣⲏϯ ⲁ |
| 18 | ⲡⲟⲩⲣⲟ ⲧⲁϩⲟ. (2) Two leaves at Leipzig (Cod. Tisch. xxvii, 5, 6)° belong to the same Ms. On their relation |
| 19 | to the new fragments see below. |
| 20 | In our Frag. 1 the Three refuse to worship the image of the King, who in his anger orders their punishment. |
| 21 | The text begins—mergwit ⲧⲉⲛⲛⲁϫⲟⲕϥ ⲉⲃⲟⲗ ⲁⲛ, and ends—rvoTe ⲛⲁⲃ[ⲟϯⲩⲭⲟⲇⲟⲛⲟⲥⲟⲣ ⲁϥⲟⲩⲁϩ[ⲥⲁ]ϩⲛⲓ ⲛϩⲁⲛⲣⲱⲙⲓ |
| 22 | ⲛ̄ϫⲱⲣⲓ [ⲡⲓⲣⲉⲙ ⲛ̄ⲛⲟⲙϯ ⲡⲉⲙ ef... ⲙⲁ]ϣⲱ ⲉⲑⲣⲟ[ⲩ....... Je ⲥⲉⲇⲣⲁⲕ ...... ⲁⲃⲉⲇ]ϯⲛⲁⲅⲱ, This leaf must have |
| 23 | been directly followed by Cod. Tisch. xxvii, 6, which begins ⲉⲑⲣⲟⲩϩⲓⲧⲟⲩ ⲉ ⲑⲙⲏϯ i[tepw ⲛ̄ⲭⲣⲱⲙ ⲉⲑⲙⲟϩ. |
| 24 | The following gloss incorporated in the text (verso ll. 16 ff.) may be quoted: ⲡⲓϫⲁϫⲓ ⲑⲱⲗ ⲉ̀ⲧⲉ ⲫⲁⲓ ⲡⲉ ⲡⲓⲧⲟϩ |
| 25 | ⲉⲑⲛⲏⲟⲩ ⲉⲃⲟⲗϧⲉ(ⲛ) ⲡⲓⲙⲁϩⲓ. |
| 26 | Frag. 2 deals with the death of the Three (Pashons 10) after receiving promise from God of the honors |
| 27 | to be paid them after death. The text begins—(l. 8) ⲟⲩⲟⲛ ⲛⲓⲃⲉⲛ [ⲉⲑⲛⲁϣⲱⲡⲓ] ϧⲉⲛ ⲁⲛⲁⲅⲕⲏ [ⲛ̄ⲧⲟⲩ]ϫⲟⲥ [ϫⲉ] |
| 28 | ⲫ︦ϯ︦... and ends (verso) [ⲧⲟⲧⲉ ⲡⲟⲩⲣⲟ ⲁϥⲧⲱⲛϥ ϧⲉ[ⲛ] ⲟⲩⲓ̄ⲱⲥ ⲛⲉⲙ ⲛⲉϥⲛⲓϣϯ ⲧⲏⲣⲟⲩ ⲁϥⲓ̄ ⲉ̄ [ⲡⲓⲙⲁ elpe ⲛⲓⲥⲱⲙⲁ, |
| 29 | followed by slight fragments of four further lines. This leaf was immediately preceded by Cod. Tisch. xxvii, |
| 30 | 5, which ends: se ⲛ̄ⲧⲉϥⲓ̄ⲣⲓ ⲛⲟⲩⲙⲉⲧⲛⲁⲏⲧ ϧⲉⲛ ⲡⲉⲧⲉⲛⲣⲁⲛ. |
| 31 | The complete text is extant (Cod. Vai. Copt. Lx1X, 5 7). The volume to which these leaves belonged was |
| 32 | perhaps deliberately discarded as a duplicate not worth repair, |
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- 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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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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Cite as:
XII. Encomium on the Three Children — lines 9329–9366, pdf pp. 133-133 (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/L9329-9366/.
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