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Discourse on the Virgin Mary

· Pseudo-Cyril of Alexandria (attributed to Cyril, archbishop of Rakote) · Coptic version of uncertain date (MS MERC.AL, British Library Or. 6782); attribution to C… · homily

Coptic · domain: homilies · 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

SCRIPTORIUM TEI header again records 'translation: none' (https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/pseudocyrilalexandria/homily-on-the-virgin-mary-budge-ed/), while Budge 1915 prints both text and English: contents leaf 'V. The Discourse of Saint Cyril, Archbishop of Rakote, on the Virgin Mary. Coptic Text 139 / Translation 717' (https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouscop00budguoft). That 1915 rendering (pp. 717-724) is the only English version found: HOLLIS 'Cyril Rakote Virgin Mary discourse Coptic' = 0 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Cyril%20Rakote%20Virgin%20Mary%20discourse%20Coptic&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 HOLLIS 'Cyril of Alexandria Coptic homily Virgin Mary' = 0 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Cyril%20of%20Alexandria%20Coptic%20homily%20Virgin%20Mary&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The Coptic Marian homilies in the Milan edition 'Omelie copte sulla Passione, sulla Croce e sulla Vergine' (Cisalpino-Goliardica, 1980; HOLLIS record with language 'cop') are not an English translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Omelie%20copte%20sulla%20Passione%20sulla%20Croce%20e%20sulla%20Vergine&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0

3,219 Coptic word tokens in the TEI (extent estimated at c.1.3 English words per token). SCRIPTORIUM's metadata field is misleading for this text: 'translation: none' means only that Budge's English was not keyed in. Distinguish from Ps.-Cyril of Jerusalem's 'Life and Passion of Christ', which does have a modern English translation (R. van den Broek, Brill 2013).

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Miscellaneous Coptic Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt · E. A. Wallis Budge · 1915

Electronic text

Source and licence
Coptic Scriptorium · TEI XML · CC-BY 4.0
urn:cts:copticLit:pscyrila.mary.budge:1-10

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: Pseudo-Cyril of Alexandria — 5 record(s); match basis author_only.

RecordCitation
Pseudo-Cyril of Alexandria : commentary on the apocalypse. Introduction, translation, and transcription of a lecture on Revelation 7-12 from sixth-century Egypt
Gumerlock, Francis X · 2021 · eng
Gumerlock, Francis X. "Pseudo-Cyril of Alexandria : commentary on the apocalypse. Introduction, translation, and transcription of a lecture on Revelation 7-12 from sixth-century Egypt." Middletown, RI : Stone Tower Press, [2021]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99156152682803941
Eastern Christianity : a reader
· 2021 · eng
"Eastern Christianity : a reader." Grand Rapids, Michigan : William. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2021. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155842375203941
Early Christian authors on Samaritans and Samaritanism : texts, translations, and commentary
· 2002 · mul, eng
"Early Christian authors on Samaritans and Samaritanism : texts, translations, and commentary." Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2002. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990090145640203941
Demons in early Judaism and Christianity : characters and characteristics
· 2022 · eng
"Demons in early Judaism and Christianity : characters and characteristics." Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99156610967703941
Hope for the suffering ecosystems of our planet : the contextualization of christological perichoresis for the ecological crisis
Sahinidou, Ioanna, 1947- · 2014 · eng
Sahinidou, Ioanna, 1947-. "Hope for the suffering ecosystems of our planet : the contextualization of christological perichoresis for the ecological crisis." Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : Peter Lang Edition, 2014. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153703522603941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Discourse on the Virgin Mary” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-pseudo-cyril-alexandria-mary