Anaphora of Saint Athanasius (Coptic)

Anaphora Athanasii (Coptic) · Attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria · unknown · liturgy · CMCL clavis 0778

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

Why this is in the register

CMCL's Clavis Patrum Copticorum lists 'Liturgia: Anaphora Athanasii' as clavis 0778 (entry point http://cmcl.it/~cmcl/chiam_clavis.html; a query by work-number 0778 returns 'Liturgia: Anaphora Athanasii. = clavis 0778', checked 2026-11-13). No edition, manuscript description or translation was found: HOLLIS Primo 'Anaphora Athanasius' returns only the Armenian and Ethiopic Anaphora of Athanasius (Feulner 2001; the Gorgias reprint of the Ethiopic text) with no Coptic version (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Anaphora%20Athanasius&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and OpenAlex and Crossref searches for a Coptic or German edition returned nothing. The Coptic Encyclopedia has no article on it.

Recorded as 'unknown' rather than 'none': the work is attested in the Clavis, but with no edition located the absence of a translation cannot be checked against a text. It may survive only in fragments; no edition located does not prove that none exists.

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. The work is attested only as CMCL clavis 0778, with no edition, no identified manuscript and therefore no shelfmark to target. Checks run: (1) DigiVatLib MSS searches — k_f=3 'anaphora' -> 19 records (Barb.gr.336, Ott.gr.28/373/434, Vat.et.15/16, Vat.gr.573/1213/1228/1554/1811/1970/2115/2281/2282, Vat.sir.42/66, Vat.slav.10/14: Greek, Ethiopic, Syriac, Slavonic, no Coptic); k_f=2 'athanasius' -> 20 records, none Coptic-liturgical; k_f=3 'euchologium' -> 20, all Greek; k_f=3 'liturgia' -> 20, all Greek/Latin; k_f=0 'anaphora athanasii' -> 0. All HTTP 200. (2) BnF SRU: all 459 records with bib.language all cop paged and filtered for anaphor/liturg/euchol — the Coptic anaphora material is Basil, Gregory and Cyril (e.g. 'Le Grand euchologe du Monastère blanc', ark:/12148/cb32347027q), no Athanasius anaphora. (3) Coptic Scriptorium corpora meta.json (2390 documents, HTTP 200) contains no anaphora corpus; the 'pseudo.athanasius.discourses' corpora are homilies, not an anaphora. (4) Internet Archive title search 'anaphora' -> nothing Coptic (hits are linguistics, the Greek Anaphora of the Apostles, and a Syriac anaphora volume). (5) HMML search blocked (403 Turnstile). Conclusion: no-scan-located is a statement about absence of a published/identified witness, not proof the text does not survive; the next step is a Clavis Patrum Copticorum cross-reference to a manuscript (CMCL entry point http://cmcl.it/~cmcl/chiam_clavis.html, clavis 0778) — if a Euchologion shelfmark is obtained, a DigiVatLib IIIF check becomes possible.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria — 16 record(s); match basis author_only.

Sources checked

• http://cmcl.it/~cmcl/chiam_clavis.html
• HOLLIS search — Anaphora Athanasius

Cite: Tergwame, “Anaphora of Saint Athanasius (Coptic)” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-athanasius-anaphora