THE LIBRARY ,,1 VICTORIA UNIVERSITY Toronto SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANG *" THREE ENCOMIUMS BY TIIEODOSIUS, ARCIIP.ISIK )P OF ALEXANDRIA, SEVERL:S, PATRIARCH OF ANTIOCH, AND EUSTATHIUS, BISHOP OF TRAKE THE CO!TIC TEXTS WITH EXTRACTS FROM ARABIC AND ETIIIOPIC VERSIONS, EDITED, WITH ATRANSLATION UY E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, LITT. D., LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & Co., LTD. 1894- s ~ > i . , -\ CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE COPTIC TEXTS . . - i*---108* THEENCOMIUMBYABBATHEODOSIUS,ARCHBISHOPOFALEXANDRIA i THE ENCOMIUM BY SEYKRUS, PATRIARCH OF ANTIOCH . . 63 .... THE ENCOMIUM BY EUSTATHIUS, BISHOP OF TRAKI-: 93 THE ARABIC VERSION OF THE ENCOMIUM BY THEODOSIUS (EXTRACT) J37 THE ARABIC VERSION OF THE ENCOMIUM BY SEVERUS (EXTRACT) J55 THE ARABIC VERSION OF THE ENCOMIUM BY EUSTATIHUS (EXTRACT) Z7 ... THE ETHIOPIC VERSION OF THE ENCOMIUM BY SEVERUS 193 THE COPTIC FORMS OF GREEK WORDS WHICH OCCUR IN THE ENCOMIUMS 2I7 LIST OF PROPER NAMES 23 PREFACE. IN the summer of the year 1892 1 had the pleasure of showing to the Marquess of Bute, at the British Museum, a bilingual Coptic and Arabic manuscript containing three unpublished Encomiums upon Saint Michael the Archangel by Abba Theodosius, Archbishop of Alexandria, Severus of Antioch, and Eustathius, Bishop of Trake, respectively; this manuscript is the property of Lord Zouche, who was so kind as to allow me to take a complete copy of it so far back as 1885. Lord Bute enquired concerning the contents of the Encomiums, and regretted that these interesting documents were not accessible to the students of the earl\- history and literature ofEgyptian Christianity, and subsequently he undertook to defray the expenses connected with the of the same. printing lo Lord Bute wre already owe a work on the Coptic Liturgy,* and it is to his help that those who occupy themselves with the Christian literature of Egypt owe the appearance of this contribution to printed Coptic texts. There is no reason for doubting that the three Encomiums were written about the beginning of the :" The Coptic Morning Service /<>r t/ie Lord s /)<n, translated into English by John, Marquess of Bute, K. T., with the original Coptic of those parts said aloud, London, 1882. VIIth century of our era, and in them we see some of the earliest specimens of this class of Coptic literature in existence. The most ardent lover of Coptic literature must confess that the lives of Coptic saints and the Encomiums upon them are generally too full of miracles and somewhat monotonous exhortations to the listener and reader, but the Encomiums now published for the first time are interesting" exceptions to the rule, for they contain narratives which are full of importance, not only for the philologist and antiquary, but also for the student of comparative folk-lore and demonology. To the Coptic texts are appended the complete narrative portions of tiie Arabic translation of the Encomiums, and the Ethiopic version of the Encomium upon Saint Michael by Severus of Antioch, edited from a venerable manuscript of the XV th century in the British Museum. The Encomium by Eustathius, Bishop of Trake, is of special interest, for it supplies details concerning the cZ> makinog of an CIKUJV of Saint Michael, and contains an extract from the Coptic version of Physiologus, which we now know existed. To my friend Prof. I. Guidi of Rome I am indebted for valuable assistance in reading the proof sheets of the Arabic portion of the work. May 15. 1894. E. A. WALLIS BUDGE.