Rite of the Consecration of the Holy Chrism (Myron)

Order of the Consecration of the Holy Myron · Coptic Orthodox Church (patriarchal rite) · attested in medieval Euchologia; described by Ibn Kabar (d. 1324) · liturgy

Coptic · domain: liturgy · researched 2026-11-13

Why this is in the register

The rite is listed among the contents of the Roman Euchologion part 1 (1761) as 'the consecration of the holy chrism' (Coptic Encyclopedia 'Euchologion': https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/809) and is described from Ibn Kabar, Miṣbāḥ al-ẓulma, section 9, in the Coptic Encyclopedia article 'Chrism' (https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/456). HOLLIS Primo 'myron Coptic rite consecration' returns no edition and no translation (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,myron%20Coptic%20rite%20consecration&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0

Performed by the patriarch, normally on Maundy Thursday; the formula is transmitted in the Euchologia (Rome 1761; later Cairo editions). The encyclopedia article gives an English summary, not a translation. Because the search base was HOLLIS plus the standard series, 'none' here means 'no translation located in those outlets'.

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 of a Euchologion containing the myron rite was located. Checks: IA title:(euchologion) returns 29 items - the 10 sampled are Greek/Slavonic/Melkite/Church-of-Scotland and Goar's 1647 Rituale Graecorum, none Coptic; language:(cop) + title:(eucholog|liturgi|khulagi) returns 0; title:(euchologe) / (khoulagi) / (rituel copte) returns 0; the IA Arabic-script query for 'الخولاجي' returns 0. BnF SRU 'euchologe copte' returns only Le Grand euchologe du Monastere blanc (Lanne), an Office de l'encens parish booklet, Bute's Coptic morning service and 'Pi meros ... Seconde partie de l'Euchologe' - no 1761 Roman Euchologion, and the BnF date query for a 1761 Euchologe returns a Paris-usage Latin book, not the Coptic rite. The two most plausible printed hosts were checked directly and do NOT contain the rite: Ibn Kabar's Misbah (PO t. 20/4, open scan, see coptic-ibn-kabar-misbah) lists 'CHAPITRE IX. - rituel de la cuisson du chreme, de sa composition et de sa consecration' in its chapter table but the fascicle's French text contains 0 occurrences of 'chreme', so chapter IX is not printed there; and Lanne's Grand euchologe du Monastere blanc (PO t. 28/2, IA patrologia-orientalis-29 file 'Patrologia Orientalis 28.pdf', 537 leaves, text derivative 1,420,093 B, French OCR good at 0.247 function-word density) contains only eucharistic anaphoras plus 'les debris d'un rituel de mariage' per its own table of contents - 0 hits for myron/chreme/muron. DigiVatLib holds 34 Vat.copt. and ~130 Borg.copt. items but its manifests expose only shelfmark + title (Title empty for every Vat.copt. sampled except Vat.copt.9 'Tetraevangelium'), so no Coptic Euchologion shelfmark could be tied to the myron rite without guessing.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Coptic Orthodox Church — 1430 record(s); match basis author_only.

Sources checked

• https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/456
• https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/809
• HOLLIS search — myron Coptic rite consecration

Cite: Tergwame, “Rite of the Consecration of the Holy Chrism (Myron)” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-anon-myron-consecration