The Coptic Ostraca of the Monastery of Apa Ezekiel and the Archive of Andreas of Hermonthis
No ancient title; modern siglum O.Lips.Copt. II (Coptic ostraca, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig)
· Andreas of Hermonthis and the monks of the monastery of Apa Ezekiel (various)
· 6th–7th century (Byzantine Armant/Thebes region)
· letter
no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
The edition is German: F. Krueger, Andreas von Hermonthis und das Kloster des Apa Hesekiel (De Gruyter, Archiv für Papyrusforschung Beiheft 43, 2020), 2 vols, language 'ger;cop'; the HOLLIS summary describes 'the edition of nearly 600 Coptic ostraca' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Andreas%20von%20Hermonthis&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English translation of the edition or of the archive was located; HOLLIS returns 3 records for the dossier, all German or Egyptological, none a translation.
Nearly 600 Coptic ostraca from the monastery of Apa Ezekiel near Armant, edited with German translation and a micro-history of the community. The letters and administrative notes of Andreas — priest, abbot, bishop and 'father of all the monks of the ecumene' — form one of the largest coherent monastic letter archives in Coptic after the Theban dossiers.
Existing translations recorded
None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.
Electronic text
No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).
Scanned witnesses
Scan search: no scan located. No scan of the edition or of the ostraca was located. Internet Archive advancedsearch q="Apa Hesekiel", q="koptische Ostraka" and q="O.Lips.Copt" all return 0 items. BnF SRU 'Andreas von Hermonthis' resolves only to Krueger's monograph ('Andreas von Hermonthis und das Kloster des Apa Hesekiel ... anhand der koptischen Ostraka der Universitaetsbibliothek Leipzig (O.Lips.Copt. II)', Frederic Krueger) - a 2020 De Gruyter print, no digital copy, and no DOI was verified, so no candidate is recorded for it. The Leipzig papyrus portal is unreachable from this host (papyri.uni-leipzig.de and papyrusportal.de both fail to connect, curl exit 000), and papyri.info answers with an Anubis JS challenge instead of a record, so neither the Leipzig shelfmarks nor the ostraca images could be verified. Checked and rejected as a substitute: Crum, Coptic Ostraca (IA cu31924098810959, open) - 18 hits for 'Hermonthis' and 8 for 'Ezekiel', but the Ezekiel hits are a deacon named Ezekiel and the Hermonthis hits are Theban/Djeme context; there are 0 hits for 'Hesekiel' or any Apa Ezekiel monastery text, so it is not a witness to this archive. The edition is German-only (2 vols, text + German translation), so even a future scan would not yield English.
Krueger, Frederic. "Andreas von Hermonthis und das Kloster des Apa Hesekiel : mikrohistorische Untersuchungen zu Kirchengeschichte und Klosterwesen im Gebiet von Armant (Oberägypten) in byzantinischer Zeit anhand der koptischen Ostraka der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig (O.Lips.Copt. II)." Berlin : De Gruyter, [2020…
Cite: Tergwame, “The Coptic Ostraca of the Monastery of Apa Ezekiel and the Archive of Andreas of Hermonthis”
(coptic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-andreas-hermonthis-ostraca