Order of the Service of Footwashing on Maundy Thursday
· Coptic Orthodox Church
· in the printed Euchologia from 1762
· liturgy
Coptic · domain: liturgy · researched 2026-11-13
no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.
Why this is in the register
Listed as a component of the Roman Euchologion part 2 (1762) in the Coptic Encyclopedia article 'Euchologion' ('the order of the service of footwashing on Maundy Thursday': https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/809). HOLLIS Primo 'washing of the feet Coptic' returns nothing relevant, and 'Coptic euchologion' returns only Coptic-Arabic books; no English translation was located.
Distinct from the Byzantine and Jerusalem footwashing rites; celebrated by the Coptic patriarch on Maundy Thursday. Absence is asserted only for the outlets searched (HOLLIS Primo, standard translation series); Coptic parish booklets were not surveyed.
Existing translations recorded
None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.
Electronic text
No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).
Scanned witnesses
Scan search: no scan located. No scan located, after checking the obvious printed home of the rite: (1) IA title:('al-Khulaji') returns 3 items; the only one with a text layer, 'al-Khulaji al-muqaddas' (item 20200817_20200817_0921, 1,026 leaves, 826,385 chars of Arabic OCR), was searched for 'ghasl al-arjul', 'al-arjul', 'Khamis al-'Ahd' and 'al-Basakha' - it has the hand-washing of the celebrant and one 'Khamis al-'Ahd' footnote, but no footwashing order and no Holy Week (Basakha) section, i.e. it is the eucharistic volume, not the part-2 service book. (2) The second Arabic Euchologion item (largman88larg_yahoo_20150414_1558) is a bare .RAR of page scans with no derivatives, so its contents cannot be checked without a bulk download. (3) IA searches for a dedicated print - title:('Khamis al-'Ahd'), title:('ghasl al-arjul'), title:('dawrat al-Basakha') - return sermon recordings, not service books. (4) The BnF Coptic digitised set (12 freeAccess items) contains the Coptic-Arabic Holy Week book katib dawrat 'iday al-Salib wa-l-Sha'anin (ark bd6t5253301q), which is Palm Sunday and the Cross, not Maundy Thursday; its Gallica images answer 403 from this host anyway. The 1762 Roman Euchologion part 2 itself (the printed witness the CCE cites) has no digital surrogate: IA title:(euchologium) AND language:cop = 0, and language:cop 1700-1800 returns only a 1750 hymn manuscript (kcajs_rar_ms199), the 1791 al-Ibsalmiidiyah (kcajs_rar_ms195) and 18th-c. grammars and New Testaments. Parish booklets were not surveyed, per the dossier's own caveat.
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Cite: Tergwame, “The Coptic Footwashing Service of Maundy Thursday”
(coptic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-anon-footwashing-maundy-thursday