Anaphora of Saint Basil: the archaic Sahidic witness
Anaphora Basilii (Sahidic)
· Attributed to Basil of Caesarea (Sahidic recension)
· archaic Coptic anaphora; edited witness from the White Monastery
· liturgy
· CMCL clavis 0779
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
Edited with French translation and a companion study (Bernard Capelle): Jean Doresse and Emmanuel Lanne, 'Un témoin archaïque de la liturgie copte de s. Basile', Bibliothèque du Muséon 47 (Louvain, 1960) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/alma990025734970203941). HOLLIS Primo 'temoin archaique de la liturgie copte de s. Basile' returns this volume only. The one English rendering of a Coptic Basil anaphora of record is J. M. Rodwell, 'The liturgies of S. Basil, S. Gregory, and S. Cyril, translated from a Coptic manuscript of the thirteenth century' (London, 1870) (https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/alma990149412190203941), which translates a thirteenth-century Bohairic manuscript, not this recension. The critical edition of the Coptic Gregory anaphora by the same generation of scholarship is German (Hammerschmidt 1957); no English translation of the Sahidic recension was located. CMCL lists the class as clavis 0779 (http://cmcl.it/~cmcl/chiam_clavis.html, query by work-number 0779).
Distinct from the standard Bohairic Anaphora of St Basil used in the Coptic liturgy today, which does have English renderings (Rodwell 1870; modern parish service books). Whether this fragment is the same anaphora text incorporated in Lanne's Patrologia Orientalis 28/2 Euchologion edition was not verified, so the two entries may overlap in part.
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 — 1 candidate(s). This answers the open question in the dossier: Lanne's PO 28/2 Euchologe does print the Anaphora of Basil in Sahidic (White Monastery codex) with a French translation, so the work is not scan-less. The Coptic half of the text layer is unusable; the French translation is legible, and the page images support re-OCR/transcription.
internet-archive · patrologia-orientalis-29 (file 'Patrologia Orientalis 28.pdf')
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Winkler, Gabriele. "Die Basilius-Anaphora : Edition der beiden armenischen Redaktionen und der relevanten Fragmente, Übersetzung und Zusammenschau aller Versionen im Licht der orientalischen Überlieferungen." Roma : Pontificio Istituto orientale, 2005. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990110661150203941
"Un témoin archaïque de la liturgie copte de s. Basile." [Louvain] Publications universitaires, 1960. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990025734970203941
"In honor of St. Basil the Great [dagger] 379." Still River, Mass. : St. Bede's Publications, c1979. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990009564980203941
"al-Quddăs al Bāsīlī bi-alhānihi kāmilah = The Divine liturgy of St. Basil with its hymns." Qāhirah = Cairo : Maʻad al-Dirāsāt al-Qibṭīyah, Qism al-Mūsīqá wa-al-Alḥān = Institute of Coptic Studies, Dept. of Coptic Music, [1967?]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990084186050203941
"The Coptic Orthodox liturgy of St. Basil : with complete musical transcription." Cairo, Egypt : American University in Cairo Press, 1998. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990095778250203941
Cite: Tergwame, “Anaphora of Saint Basil: the archaic Sahidic witness”
(coptic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-basil-anaphora-sahidic