| The work survives as a pastiche taken from various manuscripts in Arabic, Coptic, Latin, Syriac, Sahidic, Bohairic, Ethiopian, and Greek. |
| It was written in Coptic, an Egyptian language that uses Greek characters — and more precisely, in Sahidic Coptic, a dialect from southern Egypt, Dr. Luijendijk said in an interview. |
| The Coptic language was pluricentric with different written dialects like Sahidic and Bohairic. |
