The Sacramental Rites, Burial Service, occasional psalms and monthly Katameros (Roman edition)
Services of the Holy Mysteries (Coptic; Rome, 1763)
· Coptic Orthodox Church (printed at the Propaganda Fide press, Rome)
· 1763 (printed)
· 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
HOLLIS Primo record with the descriptive title 'The services of the Holy Mysteries, except those of the Eucharist and Holy Order, together with the Burial Service, psalms for certain days, and the monthly Katameros' (Rome: Press of the Propaganda Fide, 1763; language 'cop') - https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/alma990040680880203941. No English translation of this ritual was located in HOLLIS Primo ('Coptic burial service', checked 2026-11-13, returns this Coptic volume and no English version of the rite). The Coptic Encyclopedia 'Euchologion' article documents the Roman printing programme (part 1, 1761; part 2, 1762), listing ordinations, monastic ordination, consecration of bishops, churches and chrism, footwashing, genuflexion, the prayer of the basin and the blessing of the betrothed (https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/809).
Earliest printed Coptic ritual. The burial service and the monthly Katameros in this volume have no English rendering. HOLLIS lists Bodoni (the printer) in the author field; the volume is a church service book, not an authorial work, and its relationship to the 1761/1762 Roman Euchologion was not verified.
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 the 1763 Roman edition located. Checks: (1) Internet Archive advancedsearch for year:[1755 TO 1775] AND (coptic OR copte OR copt) returns exactly 3 items: officialchurchpr01copt and officialchurchpr02copt ('[Official church prayer book]', 1760) and a 1775 Coptic-Latin lexicon. The two 'prayer book' items are MANUSCRIPTS, not the print — metadata describes them as 'Ms. written in bold Arabic', 185/191 p., 378/390 images — and their OCR is gibberish (no liturgical vocabulary recoverable: zero hits for الجناز/المعمودية/القداس/مزامير), so their relation to the 1763 rite is unverified and they are not recorded as candidates. (2) BnF SRU: 459 'cop' records paged, no Roman 1763 ritual (the closest records are the 1888/1899 rite translations, ark:/12148/cb368264774 and cb368264743, and undated manuscript records '(Rituel copte-arabe.)' cb36826467t / '[Liturgie copte et arabe]' cb368264863). (3) LOC search 'coptic liturgy' -> 10 results, all the Ragheb Moftah chant collection and 20th-c. service translations, nothing 18th-c. (4) e-rara.ch returns a browser-verification interstitial (no results), ONB's guessable SRU endpoint is HTTP 404 and its Primo API did not answer (curl code 000), MDZ serves a JS-only results page (HTTP 200, zero server-rendered hits). (5) HMML search blocked (HTTP 403 Turnstile). The HOLLIS record quoted in the dossier (alma990040680880203941) is a catalogue record, not a digital copy. Practical route: the volume is an early Propaganda Fide print and is a plausible Google Books/HathiTrust item, but neither could be queried from here (Google Books API HTTP 429, HathiTrust catalogue search HTTP 403 — only its bib API by identifier answers, and no OCLC/LCCN could be obtained from the BnF UNIMARC record, which carries no 035).
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Athanasius, Bishop of Beni-Suef and Bahnasa · 1977? · eng
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