This is a selected corpus of hagiographic and homiletic texts, consistent and homogeneous in terms of cultural and literary milieu, period and genre. These texts are marked-up, in order to:
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provide useful geographical information for the Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature (places, architectural typologies, historical characters, heresiological groups, etc.);
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put at disposal of other scholars a public repository of open-access annotated texts useful for any further research.
The selection has been made considering their geographical proximity, the chronological and cultural context, i.e. the monastic homogeneous environment of the so-called Middle Egypt. All the selected texts were already available in electronic version in the CMCL database.
The XSD schema used to validate all texts is also available in the repository.
All the documents are licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). See the individual files and subdirectories for more licensing information.