Martyrdom of Apa Epima

Le martyre d'Apa Epima (ed. Togo Mina 1937) · Anonymous (Coptic martyrdom) · saint active 3rd-4th century (per the catalogue's subject heading); Coptic passio compose… · hagiography

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 Togo Mina (ed.), Le martyre d'Apa Epima (Cairo: Imprimerie nationale, Boulâq, 1937), French-language publication of the Coptic martyrdom; the Harvard record lists language French and subject 'Epima, Saint, active 3rd century-4th century -- Legends' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,martyre%20d%27Apa%20Epima&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 HOLLIS searches for English material return 0 records ('Epima Coptic martyr', https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Epima%20Coptic%20martyr&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 'Life of Epima Coptic martyrdom', 0 records). The martyrdom is not in Budge's Coptic Martyrdoms (1914) table of contents (Victor, Eustathius/Theopiste, Apa Cyrus, Demetrius, Ephraim, John the Monk, Onnophrius, Abbaton).

Coptic passio of Apa Epima, one of the Egyptian martyrs of the Diocletianic persecution venerated at Panopolis/Akhmim; French edition only, no English translation located, and no digital Coptic text in Coptic Scriptorium. Extent not verified.

Existing translations recorded

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

Edition / series
Le martyre d'Apa Epima · Togo Mina (edition with French translation) · 1937

Scan search: open scan — 1 candidate(s). The edition itself is on IA, openly downloadable, and the images are 600 dpi - so this is an 'images good, text hopeless' case rather than a missing scan. Mina prints the Sahidic text with French translation (he says so in the avant-propos: 'Le manuscrit copte sahidique qui renferme les Actes du martyre', thanking Hyvernat for permission to publish it). Coptic Scriptorium's OCR repository was checked: github.com/CopticScriptorium/OCR lists Amelineau (Lausiac History, Monks of Egypt, Vita Isaac), Budge (Apocryphon of Bartholomew, Miscellaneous, Athanasius prayer, Pseudo-Theophilus), De Vis (Homelies coptes de la Vaticane 1922), Giron (Legendes coptes), Hyvernat/Balestieri (Martyrdoms) and a 'Processed OCR' folder - no Epima edition, so no pre-made re-OCR exists. No second copy of Mina 1937 was located.

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Sources checked

Scan / witness	Format	Pages	Rights	OCR	Evidence
Togo Mina, Le martyre d'Apa Epima, Le Caire: Imprimerie nationale, Boulâq, 1937… internet-archive · Mina1937	pdf	88	unknown	poor	PDF HTTP 200, 28,399,744 B; scandata.xml leafCount 88, dpi 600 ('LR' = large-resolution derivative); text derivative 364,827 B. Identity confirmed from the OCR'd front matter: 'SERVICE DES ANTIQUITES DE L'EGYPTE ... LE…

Cite: Tergwame, “Martyrdom of Apa Epima” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-mina-martyrdom-apa-epima