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Psalmodia (the Coptic choirbook of hymns)

al-Ibṣalmūdīyah · Anonymous (Coptic Church) · medieval to modern; printed Arabic editions 1908, 1986, 2007 · liturgy · CMCL clavis 0791

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

HOLLIS Primo 'Coptic psalmodia' returns three Arabic-Coptic printed Psalmodia (Cairo 1908; Cairo 1986; Dayr al-Suryan 2007) and Magdalena Kuhn, 'Koptische liturgische Melodien: die Relation zwischen Text und Musik in der koptischen Psalmodia', Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 197 (Peeters, 2011), German (https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/alma990129942080203941) - no English translation. The Coptic Encyclopedia article describes the book and its use (https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/1627). CMCL lists the class as clavis 0791.

Hymn texts are sung in Coptic and Arabic; Kuhn discusses text-music relations with German renderings of selected hymns. Singable English versions circulate informally on parish and hymn websites (e.g. tasbeha.org audio/hymn pages) but no published translation of the book was located. Extent is large (annual cycle) and was not counted.

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: open scan — 2 candidate(s). Two genuinely open manuscript witnesses, both photographed at high resolution with a CC PD Mark 1.0 licence and IIIF access, and both with a real catalogue record at Penn (Franklin). CAJS Rar Ms 195 (1791, 976 leaves, Coptic + Arabic, illuminated) is a complete Psalmodia; Rar Ms 197 (1830, 350 leaves) is a partial copy including Doxologies. Both shipped text layers contain zero Coptic characters, so this is an image-only resource: no OCR model exists for Coptic (tessdata cop/Coptic 404), so transcription or a trained model is required. No printed edition was found: the dossier's Cairo 1908/1986 and Dayr al-Suryan 2007 prints are not on the Internet Archive (Arabic title searches for الابصلمودية return only these two manuscripts plus a 2018 modern compilation), and BnF/DigiVatLib have no record for the printed book.

Scan / witnessFormatPagesRightsOCREvidence
al-Ibṣalmūdīyah — Coptic and Arabic Psalmodia, 1791 (Penn Libraries, CAJS Rar M…
internet-archive · kcajs_rar_ms195
jp2976open-licensenoneGET https://archive.org/metadata/kcajs_rar_ms195 -> 200: 'Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, CAJS Rar Ms 195. 1791. Copy of the Psalmodia in Coptic and Arabic; illuminations before each n…
Naskh juzʼ min al-Ibṣalmūdīyah — selections from the Psalmodia incl. Doxologies…
internet-archive · kcajs_rar_ms197
jp2350open-licensenoneGET https://archive.org/metadata/kcajs_rar_ms197 -> 200: 'CAJS Rar Ms 197. 1830. Selections from the Psalmodia in Coptic including a portion of the Doxologies', licenseurl CC PD Mark 1.0, Penn Franklin FRANKLIN_99777913…

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Psalmodia — 156 record(s); match basis author_title.

RecordCitation
Psalmodia : hoc est, cantica sacra veteris ecclesiæ selecta : quo ordine, & melodiis per totius anni curriculum cantari visitate solent in templis de Deo, & de filio eius Iesu Christo, de regno ipsius, doctrina, vita, passione, resurrectione, & ascensione, & de Spiritu Sancto
Lossius, Lucas, 1508-1582 · 1561 · lat
Lossius, Lucas, 1508-1582. "Psalmodia : hoc est, cantica sacra veteris ecclesiæ selecta : quo ordine, & melodiis per totius anni curriculum cantari visitate solent in templis de Deo, & de filio eius Iesu Christo, de regno ipsius, doctrina, vita, passione, resurrectione, & ascensione, & de Spiritu Sancto." Witebergae :…
Psalmodia : hoc est, cantica sacra veteris ecclesiae selecta : quo ordine, & melodiis per totius anni curriculum cantari visitate solent in templis de Deo, & de filio eius Iesu Christo, de regno ipsius, doctrina, vita, passione, resurrectione, & ascensione, & de Spiritu Sancto
Lossius, Lucas, 1508-1582 · 1569 · lat
Lossius, Lucas, 1508-1582. "Psalmodia : hoc est, cantica sacra veteris ecclesiae selecta : quo ordine, & melodiis per totius anni curriculum cantari visitate solent in templis de Deo, & de filio eius Iesu Christo, de regno ipsius, doctrina, vita, passione, resurrectione, & ascensione, & de Spiritu Sancto." Vitebergae…
Psalmodia : hoc est, cantica sacra veteris ecclesiae selecta : quo ordine, & melodiis per totius anni curriculum cantari visitate solent in templis de Deo, & de filio eius Iesu Christo, de regno ipsius, doctrina, vita, passione, resurrectione, & ascensione, & de Spiritu Sancto
Lossius, Lucas, 1508-1582 · 1595 · lat
Lossius, Lucas, 1508-1582. "Psalmodia : hoc est, cantica sacra veteris ecclesiae selecta : quo ordine, & melodiis per totius anni curriculum cantari visitate solent in templis de Deo, & de filio eius Iesu Christo, de regno ipsius, doctrina, vita, passione, resurrectione, & ascensione, & de Spiritu Sancto." Witebergae:…
Psalmodia : hoc est, cantica sacra veteris ecclesiae selecta : quo ordine, & melodiis per totius anni curriculum cantari visitate solent in templis de Deo, & de filio eius Iesu Christo, de regno ipsius, doctrina, vita, passione, resurrectione, & ascensione, & de Spiritu Sancto
Lossius, Lucas, 1508-1582 · 1580 · lat
Lossius, Lucas, 1508-1582. "Psalmodia : hoc est, cantica sacra veteris ecclesiae selecta : quo ordine, & melodiis per totius anni curriculum cantari visitate solent in templis de Deo, & de filio eius Iesu Christo, de regno ipsius, doctrina, vita, passione, resurrectione, & ascensione, & de Spiritu Sancto." Witebergae:…
Psalmodia : hoc est, cantica sacra veteris ecclesiae selecta : quo ordine, & melodiis per totius anni curriculum cantari visitate so lent in templis de Deo, & de filio eius Iesu Christo, de regno ipsius, doctrina, vita, passione, resurrectione, & ascensione, & de Spiritu Sancto
Lossius, Lucas, 1508-1582 · 1553 · lat
Lossius, Lucas, 1508-1582. "Psalmodia : hoc est, cantica sacra veteris ecclesiae selecta : quo ordine, & melodiis per totius anni curriculum cantari visitate so lent in templis de Deo, & de filio eius Iesu Christo, de regno ipsius, doctrina, vita, passione, resurrectione, & ascensione, & de Spiritu Sancto." Noribergae…

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Psalmodia (the Coptic choirbook of hymns)” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-anon-psalmodia