Coptic Scriptorium's Sahidic Apophthegmata corpus (126 sections digitised from the dispersed MONB.EG codex (leaves now in Naples, Vienna, Paris and the British Library)) carries English translations credited to C. Luckritz Marquis and A. Zeldes (urn:cts:copticLit:ap.1.monbeg), i.e. only the digitised excerpts. The standard English Desert Fathers volumes translate the Greek collections, not the Sahidic one: Ward, The Desert Christian (1975/1980; HOLLIS alma990010002180203941), Wortley, The Book of the Elders (2012, systematic Greek collection) and The 'Anonymous' Sayings (2013). J. Wortley (ed.), More Sayings of the Desert Fathers (CUP 2019; HOLLIS alma99153808297703941) has a Coptic section translated by Tim Vivian but is a cross-language supplement, not the Sahidic collection. HOLLIS 'Sahidic Apophthegmata' (4 hits: editions/studies incl. Chaine 1960 and a 1969 dissertation) and 'Apophthegmata Patrum Sahidic English' (1 unrelated miscellany) show no complete English translation. Partial only.
126 sections, c. 14,300 Coptic tokens in the local mirror (all from codex MONB.EG, whose leaves are split between Naples, Vienna, Paris and the British Library) - a small fraction of the Sahidic apophthegmata, so the digitised English covers only excerpts. The Sahidic collection differs from and often precedes the Greek alphabetical/systematic collections; a complete English translation of it would be a substantial new resource.
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| The sayings of the Desert Fathers : the alphabetical collection | "The sayings of the Desert Fathers : the alphabetical collection." Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications, 1984, c1975. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990073860120203941 |
| The sayings of the Desert Fathers : the alphabetical collection | "The sayings of the Desert Fathers : the alphabetical collection." London : Mowbrays, 1975. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990008435830203941 |
| The sayings of the Desert Fathers : the alphabetical collection | "The sayings of the Desert Fathers : the alphabetical collection." London : Mowbray, 1981. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990001885290203941 |
| The "Anonymous" sayings of the Desert Fathers : a select edition and complete English translation | "The "Anonymous" sayings of the Desert Fathers : a select edition and complete English translation." New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990137169530203941 |
| More sayings of the Desert Fathers : an English translation and notes | "More sayings of the Desert Fathers : an English translation and notes." Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153808297703941 |