Life of Maximus and Domitius

Vie de saint Maxime et Domèce (in Amélineau, Histoire des monastères de la Basse-Égypte) · Anonymous (Coptic Life) · 4th-century subjects (sons of the emperor, monks of Scetis); Coptic Life composed later,… · 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 Coptic Life was edited with a French translation in E. Amélineau, Histoire des monastères de la Basse-Égypte: vies des saints Paul, Antoine, Macaire, Maxime et Domèce, Jean le Nain, &c.: texte copte et traduction française, Annales du Musée Guimet 25 (Paris: Leroux, 1894); the Harvard record gives language Coptic/French and the contents name Maxime et Domèce (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Histoire%20des%20monasteres%20de%20la%20Basse-Egypte&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 HOLLIS searches for an English version return nothing relevant: 'Life of Maximus and Domitius' returns only Roman-history items (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Life%20of%20Maximus%20and%20Domitius&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and 'Vita Maximi et Domitii' returns 0 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Vita%20Maximi%20et%20Domitii&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The anecdote also circulated in Arabic and Ethiopic; an Italian rendering exists in B. Pirone, Vite di santi egiziani (2012), which confirms the absence of an English counterpart rather than supplying one.

Caveat on the check's scope: for this title only Harvard HOLLIS, Coptic Scriptorium, Budge's two Coptic corpora and the known Italian/German alternatives were searched; Brill/Peeters/Gorgias catalogues were not searched title-by-title, so treat 'none' as 'none located in the standard outlets checked'. Extent not verified. Note that the ATLA microfiche record of the Amélineau volume is tagged 'eng' in HOLLIS, which is a catalogue artefact (microfiche series language), not evidence of an English translation.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Histoire des monastères de la Basse-Égypte: vies des saints Paul, Antoine, Macaire, Maxime et Domèce, Jean le Nain · Annales du Musée Guimet 25 · Émile Amélineau (edition with French translation) · 1894

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: open scan — 2 candidate(s). This is the one target with both a clean machine text and a page-image scan. The Coptic Scriptorium OCR is the more useful asset (0.697 lexicon match on Bohairic, folio markers preserved, 53 pages covering the Life); Amelineau's IA scan supplies page images for checking and the French translation as a crib, but its own text layer has zero Coptic. Note the script is Bohairic in both witnesses, although the dossier describes the print as 'texte copte' without dialect: the incipit is unequivocally Bohairic, so a translation should be checked against the Sahidic tradition before assuming overlap.

Scan / witness	Format	Pages	Rights	OCR	Evidence
Machine OCR of the Coptic Life of Maxime and Domece (Amelineau, Monuments pour… other · CopticScriptorium/OCR -> 'Amelineau Monks of Egypt OCR Results/Life of Maxime and Domece Results/Life of Maxime and Domece OCR Output/complete.txt'	djvu	53	open-license	good	HTTP 200 on raw.githubusercontent.com (128,195 B, 50,860 chars, 35,742 Coptic codepoints). Measured: script ratio 0.703; 10,376 Coptic tokens, 69.7% of them found in a 14,260-form lexicon built from 700 project CONLLU f…
E. Amelineau, Monuments pour servir a l'histoire de l'Egypte chretienne: Histoi… internet-archive · monumentspourser00amel_0	pdf	514	public-domain	poor	HTTP 200 on https://archive.org/download/monumentspourser00amel_0/monumentspourser00amel_0_djvu.txt (1,520,023 B). Text contains the running head 'VIE DES SAINTS MAXIME ET DOMECE' plus the French translation ('eleve bel…

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Life of Maximus and Domitius — 3 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Record	Citation
Sources religieuses romaines : histoire et documents Rey, Sarah · 2017 · fre	Rey, Sarah. "Sources religieuses romaines : histoire et documents." Arles : Éditions Errance, [2017]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990151708090203941
The great fire of Rome : the fall of the emperor Nero and his city Dando-Collins, Stephen · 2010 · eng	Dando-Collins, Stephen. "The great fire of Rome : the fall of the emperor Nero and his city." Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, c2010. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990125727400203941
The Oxford book of Latin verse, from the earliest fragments to the end of the vth century A.D · 1912 · lat, eng	"The Oxford book of Latin verse, from the earliest fragments to the end of the vth century A.D." Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1912. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990008991470203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Maximus and Domitius” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-anon-vita-maximi-et-domitii