English coverage is substantial but incomplete and split between two projects. B. T. A. Evetts, 'History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church of Alexandria', Patrologia Orientalis 1, 5, 10 (1904-1915), translates the Vulgate recension of the early lives — the scan of PO 1 is titled 'I: Saint Mark to Theonas (300) and II: Peter I to Benjamin I (661)', and PO 5 and 10 continue the series; the Société d'archéologie copte bilingual edition, History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church (1943-1976), covers Khael II (849) to Cyril V (1894) — HOLLIS contents notes list v.2 pt.1 (849-880) through v.3 pt.3 (1235-1894) and v.4 (Cyril III ibn Laqlaq, 1216-1243): https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,History%20of%20the%20patriarchs%20of%20the%20Egyptian%20Church%20Atiya&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 . What is missing is the older 'primitive' recension (Hamburg manuscript, ed. Seybold 1912) and a critical text with translation of the early lives; the Louvain International Copto-Arabic Historiography Project is preparing a critical edition with English translation of Lives 17-26 only: https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/incal/ciol/international-copto-arabic-historiography-project-icahp.html . CCE CE:1239b-1242b surveys the recensions and editions: https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/985 .
The official history of the Coptic Church and the backbone of Copto-Arabic historiography. The gap is not the absence of any English but the absence of a critical, complete English edition: the primitive recension, the pre-11th-century lives in their earliest form, and the relationship between the two recensions are only accessible through Seybold's editions and den Heijer's studies. Translator list for the SOC volumes comes from the HOLLIS contributor fields of the 1943-1976 record (ʿAbd al-Masih, Khs-Burmester, Atiya, Khater).
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| A Coptic source for the history of the patriarchs of Alexandria : Cambridge 1699 R | Johnson, D. W. (David W.), 1938-. "A Coptic source for the history of the patriarchs of Alexandria : Cambridge 1699 R." 1972. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990015864870203941 |
| From Moscow to Baghdad : studies on Middle Eastern Christianity in memory of Nikolai Seleznyov | "From Moscow to Baghdad : studies on Middle Eastern Christianity in memory of Nikolai Seleznyov." Leiden : Brill, 2026. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99161618055803941 |
| Copts in context : negotiating identity, tradition, and modernity | "Copts in context : negotiating identity, tradition, and modernity." Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2017]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158293222303941 |
| Egypt and empire : The formation of religious identity after Rome | "Egypt and empire : The formation of religious identity after Rome." Leuven ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2022. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99156692739303941 |
| Exegetical crossroads : understanding scripture in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the pre-modern Orient | "Exegetical crossroads : understanding scripture in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the pre-modern Orient." Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990152334530203941 |