Late Antique Historiography

Ecclesiastical history in Coptic

Title(s):
  • Ecclesiastical history in Coptic
  • ϩⲓⲥⲧⲟⲣⲓⲁ ⲛⲧⲉⲕⲕⲗⲏⲥⲓⲁ
    (historia ntekklēsia, Ecclesiastical history)
Author:
Period covered:
Christ-Timothy Aelurus (477)
Language:
Coptic
State of Preservation:
Partial
Genre:
  • Ecclesiastical history
Remarks:
The work uses only the first seven books of Eusebius' Ecclesiastical history and it can be understood as a translation and continuation of Eusebius. It is assumed to have originally been written in Greek and to have relied heavily on the History by Timothy Aelurus. Given the fragmentary state, we cannot be sure about the precise scope and date of the work.
Edition - Translation:
  • T. Orlandi (1968-1970) (ed.) Storia della Chiesa di Alessandria. Two Volumes (Testi e documenti per lo studio dell'antichità, 17 and 31) Milano - Varese.
  • D.W. Johnson (1976) 'Further Fragments of a Coptic History of the Church: Cambridge Or. 1699R'. Enchoria 6: 7-18.
  • T. Orlandi (1985) 'Nuovi frammenti della Historia ecclesiastica copta'. In: Studi in onore di Edda Bresciani, ed. Sandro F. Bondì et al. Pisa: 363-384.
  • T. Orlandi (online) 'Historia ecclesiastica coptica'. In: Corpus dei manoscritti copti letterari.
Fragments:
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Bibliography:
  • A. Boud'hors, S. Morlet (2012) 'La version copte de l'Histoire ecclésiastique'. In: Eusèbe de Césarée, Histoire ecclésiastique: Commentaire. Volume One: Études d'introduction, ed. S. Morlet - L. Perrone. Paris: 267-270.
  • H. Brakmann (1977) 'Eine oder zwei koptische Kirchengeschichte?'. Le muséon 87: 129-142.
  • W.E. Crum (1902) 'Eusebius and the Coptic church histories'. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 24: 71-72.
  • J. Den Heijer (1989) Mawhūb ibn Manṣūr ibn Mufarrij et l'historiographie copto-arabe: Études sur la composition de l'Histoire des patriarches d’Alexandrie (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 513: Subsidia, 53). Leuven.
  • J. Den Heijer (1992) 'À propos de la traduction copte de l'Histoire ecclésiastique d'Eusèbe de Césarée: Nouvelles remarques sur les parties perdues'. In: Actes du IVe Congrès international d'études coptes. Volume Two, ed. M. Rassart-Debergh - J. Ries. Leuven: 185-193.
  • P. Devos (1977) 'Note sur l'Histoire ecclesiastique copte'. Analecta Bollandiana 95: 144-151.
  • J. Gribomont (1971) 'L'historiographie du trône d'Alexandrie avec quelques remarques sur S. Mercure, S. Basile et S. Eusèbe de Samosate'. Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa 7: 478-490.
  • D.W. Johnson (1973) Coptic sources of the History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria. Diss. The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.
  • A. Boud'hors, S. Morlet (2012) 'La version copte de l'Histoire ecclésiastique'. In: Eusèbe de Césarée, Histoire ecclésiastique: Commentaire. Volume One: Études d'introduction, ed. S. Morlet - L. Perrone. Paris: 267-270.
  • T. Orlandi (1968) Studi Copti. Three Volumes. Milano-Varese.
  • T. Orlandi (1974) 'Ricerche su una Storia ecclesiastica alessandrina del IV secolo'. Vetera Christianorum 11: 269-312.
  • T. Orlandi (1994) 'La traduzione copta di Eusebio di Cesarea, Historia ecclesiastica'. Atti dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Rendiconti della Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche e Filologiche 9.5: 399-456.
  • T. Orlandi (2007) 'The Coptic ecclesiastical history: A Survey'. In: The world of early Egyptian Christianity: Language, literature, and social context. Essays in honor of David W. Johnson, ed. J.E. Goehring - J.A. Timbie. Washington D.C.: 3-24.