CIM - Corpus dei Manoscritti Copti Letterari

The CMCL is an initiative dedicated to the study of the Egyptian Christian culture of the I-XII centuries C.E., especially of the documents in Coptic language.

The web site contains the archives of the CMCL: texts, grammar, history of literature, catalogue of manuscripts, bibliography. You will be able to consult the list of the authors and works of the Coptic literature with information on manuscripts, content, and critical problems; the list of the Coptic codices either well preserved or reconstructed, especially from the Monastery of St. Shenoute, Atripe (White Monastery); the electronic edition of Coptic texts with Italian translation; the history of Coptic literature; a computational grammar of Sahidic; a full bibliography.

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