Database tables and documentation of the APOCRYPHA database, a database of Coptic apocryphal literature, their manuscripts and contents, developed under the aegis of the European Research Council (ERC)-funded project APOCRYPHA (Storyworlds in Transition: Coptic Apocrypha in Changing Contexts in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods) at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Theology, under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 865971).

Contributors: Hugo Lundhaug (HL), Samuel Peter Cook (SC), Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (RS), Lasse Løvlund Toft (LT), Florian Graz (FG), Lloyd Abercrombie (LA), Laura Slaughter (LS), Sigurd Hanserud (SH), Knut Waagan (KW), and Ivan Miroshnikov (IM).

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All Coptic apocryphal texts and their manuscripts are included in the database.

Apocrypha defined as texts and traditions that elaborate or expand upon characters or events of the biblical storyworld.Coptic apocrypha defined as all apocryphal texts attested in the Coptic language. See Lundhaug, Hugo, Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin, Samuel Peter Cook, Lasse Løvlund Toft, and Florian Graz. “A New Approach to Coptic Apocrypha: Categories, Methods, and Achievements of the APOCRYPHA Research Project.” Pages 1–64 in Coptic Apocrypha: New Frontiers – New Perspectives. Edited by Hugo Lundhaug, Roxanne Bélanger Sarasin, Samuel Peter Cook, Lasse Løvlund Toft, and Florian Graz. Parabiblica 6. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2026.

Coptic manuscripts studied through digital images and/or autoptic analysis of the manuscripts themselves.