CopticScriptorium/corpora: Summer 2026 release

We are pleased to announce the release of version 6.3.0 of the Coptic Scriptorium data! Our corpora now total over 2,380,000 words. This release provides new and updated data:

• New releases:
  • Bohairic Book of Jonah (manually annotated)
  • Life of John Chrysostom
  • Life of Hilaria
  • Life of Marina
  • Literary Fragments
  • Pseudo-Cyril of Alexandria
• Updated and expanded data and translations:
  • Apophthegmata Patrum
  • John of Constantinople Discourse
  • Life of Phib
  • Proclus Homilies
  • Pseudo-Chrysostom
  • 1 Corinthians (manually annotated Sahidica data)
  • Works by Shenoute of Atripe:
    • Abraham our Father
    • In the Night
    • God Says Through Those Who Are His

We are grateful to our collaborators and contributors who have made this release possible, particularly Caroline T. Schroeder, Amir Zeldes, Nicholas Wagner, and Paul Dilley as well as Nina Speranskaja, Rebecca Krawiec, Christine Luckritz Marquis, Stephan Claassen, Philippe Zaher, Randy Komforty, and Safaa Mahfouz. We also want to thank Hany Takla and the St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society for their collaborations and support. Additionally, we thank our donors for contributions that made much of the work on this release possible. Please consider supporting Coptic Scriptori… as we navigate the new funding environment in the USA.

As with all our releases, the raw machine-readable data for all corpora—including morphological and syntactic annotations, as well as named entity recognition—are available in our GitHub repository. Data can be downloaded in a variety of popular formats to suit your research needs.

You can read and browse entire documents in an online portal. Our corpora are also linked in entries on the Coptic Dictionary Online.

For searching, including advanced linguistic queries, you can explore the data using our ANNIS server. To help you get started, check out our tutorial with query tips and a convenient cheat sheet. Currently, the Arabic translations are only available in ANNIS, as well.