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Where each text comes from, and the licence under which it may be reused.
Miscellaneous Coptic Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt, Part 1
English translation by E. A. Wallis Budge, from Miscellaneous Coptic Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt , edited with English translations by E. A. Wallis Budge (London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1915); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1915 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. The Coptic and Ethiopic texts, the preface, the summaries, the lists of words and names and the appendix are also left out. Greek words that occur in the text are given in Latin letters; Coptic words and manuscript marks that the machine reading printed in Greek letters are left out. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1915 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.
Miscellaneous Coptic Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt, Part 2
English translation by E. A. Wallis Budge, from Miscellaneous Coptic Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt , edited with English translations by E. A. Wallis Budge (London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1915); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1915 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. The Coptic and Ethiopic texts, the preface, the summaries, the lists of words and names and the appendix are also left out. Greek words that occur in the text are given in Latin letters; Coptic words and manuscript marks that the machine reading printed in Greek letters are left out. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1915 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.
New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius
English translation by Hugh G. Evelyn White, from The Monasteries of the Wâdi ’n Natrûn, part I: New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius , edited with English translations by Hugh G. Evelyn White (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Egyptian Expedition, 1926); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1926 volume at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. The Coptic, Greek and Arabic texts, the long introduction on the library, the editor’s descriptions of the manuscripts, his notes and variant readings, the biblical fragments, the Coptic–Arabic vocabularies and the appendices are also left out. Only the English translations are given, so the fragments begin and end where the manuscripts do, and the dots and brackets are the editor’s marks for damaged places. Greek words that occur in the text are given in Latin letters; Coptic words and manuscript marks that the machine reading printed in Greek letters are left out. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1926 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.
The Life of Isaac of Alexandria, by Mena of Pshati
The Bohairic Coptic text of the Life of Isaac of Alexandria was edited and translated by the Coptic SCRIPTORIUM project, whose open corpora are published at https://github.com/CopticScriptorium/corpora. The English translation is credited in the corpus to Émile Amélineau and Amir Zeldes. SermonIndex has joined the project’s sentence-by-sentence translations into paragraphs, divided them into short sections and numbered them; the wording is the translators’ own. Square brackets and dots mark damaged or missing places in the manuscript. The Coptic text is not printed here. This translation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). You may copy and reuse it, including commercially, if you credit Émile Amélineau, Amir Zeldes and the Coptic SCRIPTORIUM project and say whether you changed it. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
The Autobiography of Ananias of Shirak
English translation by Frederick C. Conybeare, published in 1897; public domain. The text was transcribed for Roger Pearse’s collection Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts (tertullian.org/fathers). SermonIndex has removed the page numbers and the footnotes and divided the text into sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Words in square brackets were supplied by the translator. Licence: Public domain.
Ananias of Shirak: On Christmas
English translation by Frederick C. Conybeare, published in 1896; public domain. The text was transcribed for Roger Pearse’s collection Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts (tertullian.org/fathers). SermonIndex has removed the page numbers and the footnotes and divided the text into sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Words in square brackets were supplied by the translator. Greek words that occur in the text are given in Latin letters. Licence: Public domain.
Ananias of Shirak: On Easter
English translation by Frederick C. Conybeare, published in 1897; public domain. The text was transcribed for Roger Pearse’s collection Early Church Fathers – Additional Texts (tertullian.org/fathers). SermonIndex has removed the page numbers and the footnotes and divided the text into sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Words in square brackets were supplied by the translator. Greek words that occur in the text are given in Latin letters. Licence: Public domain.
The Key of Truth: a Manual of the Paulician Church of Armenia
English translation by Frederick C. Conybeare, from The Key of Truth: a Manual of the Paulician Church of Armenia , the Armenian text edited and translated with illustrative documents and introduction by Fred. C. Conybeare (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898); public domain. The text was read by machine (Mistral OCR) from a scan of the 1898 edition at the Internet Archive and has not been proofread against the printed book. SermonIndex has removed running heads and page numbers, joined words split across lines, and divided the text into chapters and short sections; the wording is the translator’s own. Footnotes and the editor’s introduction are left out. Conybeare’s long introduction, the Armenian text, the appendices of related documents and the index are also left out. The manuscript is damaged in places: chapters 11 to 13 are lost, chapters 10, 15 and 19 are partly lost, and Conybeare’s square brackets mark words he supplied. No modern English version has been made. Licence. The translation was published in 1898 and is in the public domain. Licence: Public domain.