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Life of Hilaria

Life of Hilaria (fragmentary; no ancient title preserved) · Anonymous · composition date unknown; fragments in BnF Copte 132.1 ff. 19-20, Copte 78 f. 39, Leiden… · hagiography

Coptic · domain: hagiography · researched 2026-11-13

partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.

Why this is in the register

The Coptic fragments were first published, with a French translation, by Noël Giron, Légendes coptes: fragments inédits, publiés, traduits et annotés (Paris: Geuthner, 1907) (https://archive.org/details/lgendescoptesfr00revigoog). The only English version located is James Drescher, Three Coptic Legends: Hilaria, Archellites, The Seven Sleepers (Cairo: IFAO, 1947): the Harvard record's language fields are English/Coptic/Greek and its subject heading is 'Coptic Christian saints -- Legends -- Translations', i.e. the volume supplies an English translation of the fragments (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Three%20Coptic%20legends%20Hilaria%20Archellites&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 A HOLLIS search for a modern English 'Life of Hilaria' returns 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Life%20of%20Hilaria%20Coptic&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Coptic Scriptorium's five TEI files (2,770 Coptic word tokens) carry translation 'none'.

Status 'partial' rather than 'none': Drescher 1947 does translate the surviving fragments into English, but the text is fragmentary (five witnesses, c. 2,770 Coptic tokens), the translation is a 1947 IFAO cahier long out of print and not a critical edition with apparatus, and there is no modern English translation of the legend. The Greek 'Life of Hilaria' (a transvestite-saint legend) is a related but distinct text.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Three Coptic Legends: Hilaria, Archellites, The Seven Sleepers · Supplément aux Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, Cahier 4 · James Drescher · 1947

Electronic text

Source and licence
Coptic Scriptorium · TEI XML · CC-BY 4.0
urn:cts:copticLit:lives.hilaria.clm1791 / clm1792 / monbec

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Life of Hilaria — 151 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

RecordCitation
Threads of my life : the story of Hilaria Supa Huamán, a rural Quechua woman
Supa Huamán, Hilaria · 2008 · eng
Supa Huamán, Hilaria. "Threads of my life : the story of Hilaria Supa Huamán, a rural Quechua woman." [Penticton, BC] : Theytus Books, c2008. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990114470280203941
Hilaria : récits intimes pour un féminisme révolutionnaire
Irene · 2022 · fre
Irene. "Hilaria : récits intimes pour un féminisme révolutionnaire." Paris : Editions Divergences, 2022. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99156831953203941
Hilos de mi vida
Supa Huamán, Hilaria · 2010 · spa
Supa Huamán, Hilaria. "Hilos de mi vida." Lima : Ediciones del Congreso del Perú, 2010. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990137706910203941
Screening the crisis : US cinema and social change in the wake of the 2008 crash
· 2022 · eng
"Screening the crisis : US cinema and social change in the wake of the 2008 crash." London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99162318950903941
Leyendas yucatecas
· 2003 · spa
"Leyendas yucatecas." Mérida, Yucatán, México : Ediciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, 2003. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990093854300203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Hilaria” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-anon-life-hilaria