The author offers a summary of the PhD dissertation entitled ‘La versione in copto boḥairico dell’omelia De ieiunio I di Basilio di Cesarea. Introduzione, edizione, traduzione e commento, con un’appendice sulla trasmissione in copto ṣa‘īdico’, defended on 24 February 2022 at Sapienza University of Rome as the conclusion of the PhD course in Philology and History of the Ancient World (Philology of the Near- and Middle-East program), under the supervision of Paola Buzi and Agostino Soldati