Unione Accademica Nazionale * Hiob Ludolf Zentrum, Universität Hamburg * Istituto Patristico Augustinianum

CMCL
Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari

Direttore: Tito Orlandi

NOTE: the sections clavis coptica and manuscripts are constantly updated. Last June 4, 2023
NEW 24.4.2021: records from #b270 to b635 have been added to the Bibliography, mainly for the year 2018-2020.
NEW 17.11.2019: records from #a943 to b269 have been added to the Bibliography, mainly for the year 2017-18.
NEW 22.8.2016: records from #a879 to #a942 have been added to the Bibliography, mainly for the year 2016.
25.8.2015: records from #a621 to #a878 have been added to the Bibliography, mainly for the years 2011-2015.
22.5.2006: In the "Manuscripts, Collections" section the following collections have been added: Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin), Staatliche Museen, Aegyptisches Museum, Papyrussammlung (Berlin), Egypt, Cairo, Coptic Museum, Cambridge University Library, Napoli Biblioteca Nazionale, St. Petersbourg M.E. Saltykov-Scedrin State Public Library, British Library.
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Clavis Patrum Copticorum: list of the authors and works of the Coptic literature with information on manuscripts, content, and critical problems
Manuscripts: list (a) of the individual collections, (b) of the Coptic codices either well preserved or reconstructed, especially from the Monastery of St. Shenoute, Atripe (White Monastery)
Texts: electronic edition of Coptic texts with Italian translation. A full edition consists of: reproduction of the manuscripts, diplomatic edition of the manuscripts, critical edition of the text, with translation, index of the words with grammatical explanation, linguistic analysis.
History of literature: chronological description of the development of the Coptic literature in 12 parts. Only parts 1, 4, 7 are currently available.
Grammar: a computational grammar of Sahidic with a list of words according to the grammatical categories.
Bibliography. Complete bibliography for Coptic studies. Some of the subjects are complete from the beginning of the studies: Bibbia; Gnosticismo; Apocrypha; Letteratura; Agiografia; Storia; Generalia (partially); Manoscritti (partially). The other subjects (Linguistica; Archeologia, and parts of Generalia, Manoscritti and Storia) start from 1980, and the previous titles will be completed in the future.