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Coptic Life (legend) of John Chrysostom

Life of John Chrysostom (Coptic legend; Giron's fragment) · Anonymous (Coptic legend) · composition date unknown; single fragment, BnF Copte 129.17 ff. 2-3 (White Monastery prov… · hagiography

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

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 text is known only from Giron's 1907 publication of BnF fragments with a French translation (https://archive.org/details/lgendescoptesfr00revigoog). HOLLIS keyword searches return nothing in English ('John Chrysostom Coptic legend Giron', 0 records: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,John%20Chrysostom%20Coptic%20legend%20Giron&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Budge's Miscellaneous Coptic Texts (1915), the other main home of Coptic Chrysostomiana, contains only the Encomium on the Archangel Raphael attributed to John Chrysostom (table of contents, https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouscop00budguoft). Coptic Scriptorium's TEI records translation 'none' (https://github.com/CopticScriptorium/corpora/tree/master/life-chrysostom).

Only a fragment survives (c. 1,090 Coptic tokens); the CS title links it to the codex containing the Sacrifice of Abraham. The Greek Chrysostom biographies are translated into English, but this Coptic legendary Life is not; its fragmentary state should be stated wherever the gap is advertised.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Légendes coptes: fragments inédits, publiés, traduits et annotés · Noël Giron · 1907

Electronic text

Source and licence
Coptic Scriptorium · TEI XML · CC-BY 4.0
urn:cts:copticLit:lives.chrysostom.giron_ed

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: Coptic Life of John Chrysostom — 12 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

RecordCitation
Coptic apocrypha in the dialect of upper Egypt
Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934 · 1913 · eng
Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934. "Coptic apocrypha in the dialect of upper Egypt." London : Printed by order of the Trustees, sold at the British museum [etc.], 1913. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990063465780203941
Coptic apocrypha in the dialect of Upper Egypt
· 1977 · eng
"Coptic apocrypha in the dialect of Upper Egypt." New York : AMS Press, 1977. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990007437950203941
Severus of Antioch : his life and times
· 2016 · eng, fre
"Severus of Antioch : his life and times." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990146913630203941
Ifraḥū : riḥlah rūḥīyah fī risālat Fīlibbī
Tawāḍrūs II, Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria, 1952- · 2022? · ara
Tawāḍrūs II, Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria, 1952-. "Ifraḥū : riḥlah rūḥīyah fī risālat Fīlibbī." al-Qāhirah : Baṭrayarkīyat al-Aqbāṭ al-Urthūdhuks bi-al-Qāhirah, [2022?]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99157001765203941
Philologie, herméneutique et histoire des textes entre Orient et Occident : mélanges en hommage à Sever J. Voicu
· 2017 · fre, eng, ita, spa
"Philologie, herméneutique et histoire des textes entre Orient et Occident : mélanges en hommage à Sever J. Voicu." Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2017. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990151923630203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Coptic Life (legend) of John Chrysostom” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-anon-life-john-chrysostom-legend