Coptic texts (anonymous)

Anonymous lives, homilies and apocryphal writings that survive in Coptic, the language of Egyptian Christians, many of them put under the names of famous Fathers and some translated from Greek.

5th–8th century Armenian, Coptic, Arabic and other Eastern writers The later Fathers 7 works

Writings

English translations (older public-domain ones, and a few modern ones shared under open licences), divided into chapters and short sections, with a download for each. A modern English version and the original-language text are planned for the works that matter most.

Coptic Apocrypha in the Dialect of Upper Egypt (Budge translation) Older EnglishOCR text 5.2 h read
Coptic Homilies in the Dialect of Upper Egypt (Budge translation) Older EnglishOCR text 5.2 h read
Miscellaneous Coptic Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt (Budge translation) (part 1 of 2) Older EnglishOCR text 8.4 h read
Miscellaneous Coptic Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt (Budge translation) (part 2 of 2) Older EnglishOCR text 5.2 h read
Coptic Martyrdoms and Lives in the Dialect of Upper Egypt (Budge translation) Older EnglishOCR text 6.5 h read
New Coptic Texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius (Evelyn White translation) Older EnglishOCR text 2.7 h read
The Life of Isaac of Alexandria, by Mena of Pshati (Bohairic Coptic) Modern English 54 min read

Most translations are the older ones in the public domain (mostly the nineteenth-century Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers); a few are modern translations shared under an open licence, with the translators credited on the work’s page. Square brackets and any Greek or Latin words are as the source prints them.