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23 lines · a line number is a link to itselfA part of a container file (WORK-9): lines 9,484–9,517, pdf pp. 135-135 of New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius (Evelyn-White 1926) — a witness of Martyrdom of James the Persian (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 | XIV. THE MARTYRDOM OF JAMES THE PERSIAN |
| 2 | Parchment. Three complete leaves (Cairo, no. 51) from one Ms., each 28 x 21 cm. Frag. ⲓ is the outermost |
| 3 | sheet of quire & comprising two leaves paged respectively Ax, Aa and (WY), ⲙ︦ⲏ︦. The initial and |
| 4 | final quire-headings are: v—nas—(Ornament)—nan—Aaw, and ⲙ︦ⲏ︦- ⲓ︦ⲏ︦ⲥ︦- (Ⲟⲅⲡⲁⲡⲡ)-ⲛⲭ︦ⲥ︦-ⲅ̄. The first |
| 5 | two quires therefore contained eight leaves each; the third, only six. Frag. 2 is paged -ⲝⲃ without other |
| 6 | heading. The hand in all three leaves (see Plate XII A) is the same rather rough script found in No. viii ⲥ |
| 7 | Identity of script, size, and contents proves that the following leaves belonged to the same ms. :—Cod. Tisch. |
| 8 | xxvi, 15 (paged —x8); xxvi, 16 (paged -ⲙ︦ⲅ︦, and therefore immediately preceding the new-found leaf |
| 9 | (ⲛ︦ⲍ︦). ⲙ︦ⲏ︦) ⲁⲡ xxvi, 2 (verso headed ⲛ̄- ⲓ︦ⲏ︦ⲥ︦- (Ⲟⲡⲧⲉⲛ )-ⲡⲭ︦ⲥ︦-[ⲏ︦) Cod. Tisch. xxv, 4° (recto |
| 10 | headed ⲅ̄- ⲛⲁⲓ- (Ⲟⲓⲡⲁⲡⲓⲉⲡ)-ⲛⲁⲛ- ⲗ︦), though part of the same work, comes from a different copy. |
| 11 | All these leaves belong to the Martyrdom of Saint James the Persian, the complete text of which is extant |
| 12 | in Cod. Vat. Copt. ⲭ, 1, which was brought from the Monastery of Macarius by Assemani: the divergence |
| 13 | of the fragments from this copy are so slight that neither copy nor collation is here given. The following |
| 14 | table will show the correspondence between the fragments and the Vatican text: |
| 15 | (1) Pp. --ⲕ︦ⲃ︦ ⲛⲓⲙⲏϣ ⲁϥⲉⲣⲕⲉⲗⲉⲩⲓⲛ ... ⲉⲑⲃⲉ ϫⲉ ⲥⲉⲥⲱⲟⲩⲛ pp. ⲣ︦ⲝ︦ⲏ︦ . 14—pze L 10. |
| 16 | (2) Pp. --ⲗ︦ⲅ︦ -ⲇ︦ⲇ︦ -ⲧⲉϥ ade ⲛⲧⲥⲏϥⲓ... ⲉⲧⲁϥϫⲟⲩϣⲧ ⲇⲉ € ⲛⲓⲙⲁ ⲛ. pp. poa . 20—(poe) 1. 23. |
| 17 | (3) Pp. -ⲙ︦ⲋ︦ : ⲡⲉϫⲱⲟⲩ ⲛⲁϥ ϫⲉ... ⲁⲩϧⲱⲛⲧ ⲇⲉ ⲉⲣ[ⲟⲩ|ⲛ epog= Fat. pu I. 3--(︦︦︦︦︦) 1. 18. |
| 18 | (4) Pp. -ⲙ︦ⲏ︦ ⲉ̄ ϣⲱⲧ ⲛ̄ⲛⲓⲧⲏⲃ. ..ϯⲛⲟⲩ ϫⲉ ⲁⲛⲟⲕ ϩⲱ ϯϣⲉⲡ- ⲣ︦ⲛ︦ⲁ︦ 1. ⲓⲑ-ⲣ︦ⲛ︦ⲃ 1. 20. |
| 19 | (5) Pp.—ac (Cod. Tisch. XXv, 4): ⲉ ϯⲙⲉⲧⲟⲩⲣⲟ ⲛ̄ⲧⲉ ⲛⲓⲫⲏⲟⲩⲓ... (end of text illegible) = Vat. ⲣ︦︦︦ⲇ︦ . 2- |
| 20 | prc 1 21. |
| 21 | (6) Pp. -ⲝ︦︦︦ : ϣⲱⲧ Amman. ..ovop ϯⲡⲁⲉⲣⲯⲁⲗⲓⲡ ⲉ̀. pun |. 33—pq 1. 3. |
| 22 | (7) Pp. ⲛ̄. ⲉ. W7e... ⲕⲉⲣⲙⲓ ⲉ ⲡⲧⲏⲣϥ... ⲉ ⲡϣⲏⲣⲓ ⲡⲉ ⲛ̄ⲡⲓⲟⲩⲣⲱⲟⲩ ⲛ̄ⲧⲉ ⲛⲓⲩ︦ⲃⲉⲣⲟⲥ ⲉ̄ ⲁⲩⲧⲏⲓϥ ⲉ . ⲟⲩⲱ |
| 23 | ⲙⲡⲓⲟⲩⲣⲟ. ⲣ︦ϥ︦- ⲥ︦. |
Provenance
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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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- 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:
XIV. The Martyrdom of James the Persian — lines 9484–9517, pdf pp. 135-135 (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/L9484-9517/.
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