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Guest Post: Anthony Alcock - Triadon. English version of a 14th cent....
Reblogged from Alin Suciu: Anthony Alcock has prepared a new translation of an interesting Coptic text, the Triadon. You can download the first part of his translation HERE. An important Coptic poem...
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COPTIC DEATH AND AFTERLIFE 1: THE COPTIC UNDERSTANDING OF DEATH, INTERMEDIATE...
Figure 1: Fayum mummy portrait of a youth from Hawara; A.D. 80-100 (in the Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC). How did he die? How did death present to him? Where did he (his soul) go after death? Where...
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COPTIC DEATH AND AFTERLIFE 2: COPTIC PURGATORY: THE DESTINY OF ALL FLESH? THE...
Figure 1: The Life of Apa Cyrus, by Pambo (Brit. Mus. MS. Oriental No. 6783. fol. 23 a). In 1914, E. A. Wallis Budge published the texts of some of the most interesting Coptic manuscripts which came...
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COPTIC DEATH AND AFTERLIFE 3: TEMPORARY REST FOR SINNERS IN HADES: A COPTIC...
Figure 1: The sufferers in Hades get temporary rest when visited by Christ (from Dante’s Inferno). We have seen in our previous article “Coptic Purgatory: The Destiny of All Flesh? The Verdict of Apa...
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COPTIC DEATH AND AFTERLIFE 4: REST TO THE SOUL OF THE GLASSBLOWER FROM ASYUT:...
Figure 1: The Gebelein Man (a naturally preserved mummy from the Predynastic period, around 3500 BC, in the British Museum). The Life of Shenoute by Besa[1] is a book that tells us a few of the...
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COPTIC DEATH AND AFTERLIFE 5: SAINT PISENTIUS ENCOUNTER WITH A HELLENE MUMMY...
Figure 1: The Mummy of Artemidorus, AD 100-120 (In the British Museum). The Life of Bishop Pisentius is very important in many ways not least because it sheds some light on what Copts of the Classic...
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THE EDFÛ MANUSCRIPTS AND THE PHILOCOPT SIR ERNEST ALFRED THOMPSON WALLIS BUDGE
Figure 1: Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge by Bassano, in the National Portrait Gallery, London. The British Orientalist, Egyptologist and Coptologist Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge,...
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THE EARLIEST KNOWN COMPLETE COPTIC PSALTER IN THE DIALECT OF UPPER EGYPT
Figure 1: The Coptic title of Brit. Mus. Oriental 5000, which means The Psalter Book. Figure 2: The title page of Budge’s book (1898). Only 250 copies were printed. Figure 3: Sir Earnest Alfred...
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THE OLDEST COMPLETE COPTIC PSALTER EVER FROM THE FOURTH CENTURY: THE MUDIL...
Figure 1: The Mudil Codex (The Coptic Psalter in the dialect of Middle Egypt) – the oldest Coptic psalter ever discovered. It is kept in the Coptic Museum in Old (Coptic) Cairo. In a previous...
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ROWAN WILLIAMS ON THE COPTIC LIFE OF SAINT ANTONY AND THE POWER OF FAITH OVER...
Figure 1: Rev. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury (2002-2012). Many of you would know Rowan Williams (b. 1950) as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury (2002 – 2012) and a man of intellect whose...
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THE GREAT ENGLISH PHILOCOPT WOMAN WRITER, EDITH LOUISA BUTCHER
Figure 1: A wedding group photo, at All saints Church, showing Mr And Mrs Butcher third and forth to the right of the bride in the centre. The photo is believed to include other prominent Anglican...
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HOW THEY SAW THE COPTS: COPTIC WOMAN (KOPTISCHE VROUW) BY THE DUTCH ARTIST...
Figure 1: Coptic Woman (Koptische Vrouw) by Charley Toorop, date unknown. Charley Toorop, or Annie Caroline Pontifex Fernhout-Toorop (1891 – 1955), was a Dutch painter and lithographer. She is...
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HOW THEY SAW THE COPTS: COPTIC BATISMAL PROCESSION BY THE BRITISH ARTIST...
Figure 1: Coptic Baptismal Procession by Simeon Solomon, 1865 (at the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, UK). Simeon Solomon (1840 – 1905) was an English painter, from a Jewish family, whose work is...
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HOW THEY SAW THE COPTS: THE MEYERS KONVERSATIONS-LEXIKON (OR MEYERS LEXIKON)
Figure 1: Afrikanische Völker: from the Meyers encyclopedia, (Leipzig and Vienna , the Bibliographic Institute, Fourth Edition, 1885-1892; 1888). Showing: 1 & 2, Mpongwe from Gabon; 3, Arab from...
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HOW THEY SAW THE COPTS: “PANORAMA OF NATIONS” ON THE COPTS
In 1888 a great American book, by by H. G. Cutler and L. W. Yaggy, “Panorama of Nations or, Journeys Among The Families Of Men” was published,[1] which the reader can access here. Among the countries...
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COPTIC MOTIFS AND POTTERY
The following lovely Coptic mosaic motifs from the Coptic Period, 3rd to 7th centuries (plates XX and XXI) and pottery from the Saitic and Coptic periods (plate XIX) are coloured lithographs printed by...
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HOW THEY SAW THE COPTS: COPTIC MAIDEN BY THE GERMAN ARTIST GUSTAV RICHTER
Figure 1: Coptic Maiden by Gustav Richter as it appears in Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, And Picturesque (Aegypten in Bild und Wort) by George Ebers. Translated from the Original German By Clara...
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HOW THEY SAW THE COPTS: COPTIC WOMAN BY GEORGES MONTBARD IN THE ILLUSTRATED...
The Illustrated London News was the world’s first illustrated weekly newspaper that lasted from 1842 until 2003,[1] and covered many interesting topics. Collectors pay a lot of money to get hold of...
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MORE TO BE DISCOVERED IN THE MOUNTAIN OF TJÎMI, WEST OF LUXOR, WHERE COPTIC...
Figure 1: Topographic map of western Luxor, showing the Vally of the Queens and the mountains west to it. In my studies about Apa Pisentius (548 – 632 AD) I mentioned that he was bishop of Coptos[1]...
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FREYA STARK: EAST IS WEST: AND THE COPTS (I): AND THE INUUENDO ABOUT THE JEWS
Figure 1: Freya Stark in 1928. The casual reader of the following passage in Freya Stark’s book East Is West,[1] in which she mentions the Copts for the first time, may not immediately understand the...
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