SSCN Voumes 1-10, 1994-2004

St. Shenouda Coptic Newsletter

property. The farmers have encroached onto the property and cultivated on top of the structures and some even ride their tractors on top of the dunes which may destroy the underlying domes. He plans to start work in the winter of 1995, and hopefully continue for several seasons. Dr.

Carroll also hopes to build a museum for the Coptic artifacts found there All in all, the presentation was very educational and inspiring to the Coptic community in Southern California, especially the large number of youth that attended.

NEWS

1. Coptic Microfilm Library (CML)

slides for the sites is roughly 500 slid s, including 100 slides on the 6th century monastery of St. Simeon in Aswan. We are also working with him on producing some of these images on Greeting cards. Samples of these are already available at the Center.

Our acquisition of microfilms of Coptic manuscripts has continued during the first quarter of our fiscal year. We are awaiting the arrival of microfilms of 21 Coptic and Arabic manuscripts from Oxford as well as 17 Coptic and mostly Arabic manuscripts from the Mingana Collection through IDC of Leiden. Also we have 8 Coptic codices on order from The Cambridge University Library. This group includes several fragments from St. Shenouda Monastery collection. More acquisitions from the Vatican, Paris, London, Manchester(?), as well as Oxford are being planned for later in the year.

4. Computerization in the Center

Computer work is an essential part of our activities. Currently, the Coptic Bible is being actively worked on. Several volumes in that series, of the New Testament, are in the late text preparation stages. They include parallel columns of B hairic, Sahidic, Greek, and King James versions. We were hoping that by this time a computer network would be installed at the Center, however it was not to be yet. However, we upgraded the main PC by adding a CD drive and more RAM memory. The International Association of Coptic Studies (IACS), in their latest newsletter, set the date for the upcoming Coptic Congress. It will be held in Munster, Germany, during the period of July 20 through the 26th. The early announcement was a call for Papers to be presented by the IACS members. The Congress deals with all branches of Coptic Studies. Several members of the Society are planning to present papers during the Congress. The papers will cover subjects like History, Liturgy and Hagiography. We hope that many more of our youths will give this some serious consideration. The Society is ready to assist anyone with subject 5. The Sixth International Congress of Coptic Studies

2. Coptic Library

Several volumes of Coptic and Arabic texts and studies are on order from Louvain. Later this year, we will make available at the Center our extensive collection of Articles and Offprints dealing with the various branches of Coptic Studies.

3. Slides/Photo Collection

This year we came in contact with Mr. Paul Kuiper of Hood River Oregon. He studied photography under the famous Ansel Adams. He informed us that he had a collection of color slides that he took of Coptic sites and events in 1971. We are in the process of purchasing a copy of the slides as well as an electronically-stored copy on computer CDs. Please contact us as soon as you can if you are interested in having a copy. This will cut down the production costs of course. The collection of

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