Encomium on Saint Michael the Archangel

· Theodosius of Alexandria (attributed) · Coptic version of uncertain date; the Sahidic text is preserved in two manuscripts (Londo… · 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

Coptic SCRIPTORIUM has digitised nine fragments of the two manuscripts (urn:cts:copticLit:theodosiusalex.michael.budge_al_ed, https://data.copticscriptorium.org/texts/theodosiusalexandria/encomium-on-michael-the-archangel-budge-ed-mercal-part-1/), with the TEI header recording 'translation: none'. Two old English versions exist: Budge, Saint Michael the Archangel: Three Encomiums by Theodosius, Severus, and Eustathius (London 1894; HOLLIS record with languages eng;cop, https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Saint%20Michael%20the%20archangel%20three%20encomiums%20Theodosius%20Severus%20Eustathius&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and the re-edited text/translation in Budge 1915 ('XIII ... Coptic Text 321 / Translation 893', https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouscop00budguoft). No modern critical translation located; HOLLIS 'Theodosius of Alexandria Coptic encomium Michael' returns only Budge 1894/1915 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Theodosius%20of%20Alexandria%20Coptic%20encomium%20Michael&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0

Extent is the sum of the two manuscript versions digitised by SCRIPTORIUM (42,236 Coptic word tokens; c.1.3 English words per token), not a single text. The attribution to Theodosius is that of the manuscripts and is debated; the SCRIPTORIUM corpus labels it 'Theodosius of Alexandria' without 'pseudo'.

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Saint Michael the Archangel: Three Encomiums by Theodosius, Severus, and Eustathius · E. A. Wallis Budge · 1894
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:theodosiusalex.michael.budge_al_ed:9-30

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: Theodosius of Alexandria Encomium on Saint Michael the Archangel — 1 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

Record	Citation
Saint Michael the archangel: three encomiums by Theodosius, archbishop of Alexandria, Severus, patriarch of Antioch, and Eustathius, bishop of Trake; the Coptic texts with extracts from Arabic and Ethiopic versions, edited with a translation Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934 · 1894 · eng, cop	Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934. "Saint Michael the archangel: three encomiums by Theodosius, archbishop of Alexandria, Severus, patriarch of Antioch, and Eustathius, bishop of Trake; the Coptic texts with extracts from Arabic and Ethiopic versions, edited with a translation." London, K. Pau…

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Encomium on Saint Michael the Archangel” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-theodosius-michael