Coptic Orthodox Liturgy (2 results)

Softcover. 3rd edition. [12], 439, a-t pages; 21.5 cm., quarto. Good in orig. ivory wrapper. Backstrip bowed, with staining to upper rear corner. Text in English : Psalms + some responses in Coptic and English.

4to (190 x 230 mm). 194 ff. Arabic manuscript on paper. Black naskh script with important words, phrases, and titles picked out in red. Contemporary leather-backed floral boards. A lovely Arabic manuscript of Coptic Christian homilies, used by the Orthodox Church to celebrate Sunday mass and particular holy days, comprising twenty-four homilies in total, divided into five sections. Specific homilies are assigned to Easter Sunday, Pentecost, All Saints, Sunday of the Myrrhbearers, Thomas Sunday, and Sunday of the Blind Man, and a full index is helpfully included at the end of the manuscript. - Coptic Orthodox Christianity has an ancient history in the Arab world, founded in Alexandria as one of the earliest major Christian sects. Unlike in Greek Orthodoxy, in the Coptic church Arabic is one of the main liturgical languages (along with Coptic, Greek, and Tamazight). Today, Egypt and Sudan are the centre of Coptic Christianity, with a large diaspora throughout the world. - Covers gently worn, a few minor smudges; in good condition. - With one ink ownership stamp, and a blindstamp throughout, both in Arabic.…