NEW RESEARCH ON COPTIC LITURGY 2012–2022
SELECTED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. PRINT PUBLICATIONS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
J.P. Abdelsayed, “Liturgy: Heaven on Earth,” in L. M. Farag (ed.), The Coptic Christian
heritage: history, faith, and culture, New York, 2014, p. 143–159. [Synopsis of the liturgicallife in the modern Coptic Orthodox Church concisely describing liturgical calendar and year,
liturgical tones, the mysteries such as baptism, chrismation, eucharist, repentance, confession,
matrimony, the crowning ceremony, holy orders, holy unction and other services, andliturgical books such as lectionary and horologion.]
S. Alexopoulos, “Scholarship on the Coptic Liturgical Tradition: An Assessment,” in D.
Atanassova & T. Chronz (ed.), Ⲥⲩⲛⲁⲝⲓⲥ Ⲕⲁⲑⲟⲗⲓⲕⲏ. Beiträge zu Gottesdienst und Geschichte
der fünf altkirchlichen Patriarchate für Heinzgerd Brakmann zum 70. Geburtstag (orientalia– patristica – oecumenica 6,1–2), Wien – Berlin – Münster, 2014, p. 1–12.
E. Almacary, “The Morning Adam Doxologies to the Manuscripts of St Macarius’ Library,” inP. Buzi, A. Camplani & F. Contardi (ed.), Coptic Society, Literature and Religion from Late
Antiquity to Modern Times. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Coptic
Studies, Rome, September 17th–22nd, 2012 and Plenary Reports of the Ninth International
Congress of Coptic Studies, Cairo, September 15th–19th, 2008, vol. 1–2 (Orientalia
Lovaniensia Analecta 247), Leuven – Paris – Bristol, CT, 2016, p. 1267–1278.
D. Atanassova,“Der koptische Ritus,” in B.J. Groen & Ch. Gastgeber (ed.), Die Liturgie derOstkirche. Ein Führer zu Gottesdienst und Glaubensleben der orthodoxen und orientalischen
Kirchen, Freiburg – Basel – Wien, 2012, p. 204–232, 266–268. [An overview in German on
the Coptic rite with photos from the Coptic community in Vienna.]
D. Atanassova, “Die Typika des Schenute-Klosters: Die Vorstellung eines Projektes,” in H.-J.
Feulner (ed.), Liturgies in East and West: Ecumenical Relevance of Early Liturgical
Development. Acts of the International Symposium Vindobonense I, Vienna, November 17 –20, 2007 (Österreichische Studien zur Liturgiewissenschaft und Sakramententheologie 6),
Wien, 2013, p. 33–45. [A presentation of a FWF project concerning the liturgical typika of
the White Monastery.]
D. Atanassova, “The Primary Sources of Southern Egyptian Liturgy: Retrospect and Prospect,”in B. Groen, D. Galadza, N. Glibetic & G. Radle (ed.), Rites and Rituals of the Christian East.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, Lebanon,
10–15 July 2012 (Eastern Christian Studies 22), Leuven – Paris – Walpole, MA, 2014, p. 47–
96. [Overview on the Coptic liturgical mss. from Southern Egypt.]
D. Atanassova, “A New Typikon Fragment from Strasbourg,” in A. Boud’hors, A. Delattre,
C. Louis, T. S. Richter (ed.), Coptica Argentoratensia. Textes et documents de la troisième
université d’été de papyrologie copte (Strasbourg, 18–25 juillet 2010) (Cahiers de la
Bibliothèque copte 19), Paris, 2014, p. 99–105, Tf. 19–20. [P.Stras.Inv.Kopt. 32 is a typikon
paper fragment containing the psalm verses “hermeneiai” for the month Paone and belongs to
the liturgical codex MONB.WS from the White Monastery.]
D. Atanassova, “Prinzipien und Kriterien für die Erforschung der koptischen liturgischen Typika
des Schenuteklosters,” in D. Atanassova & T. Chronz (ed.), Ⲥⲩⲛⲁⲝⲓⲥ Ⲕⲁⲑⲟⲗⲓⲕⲏ. Beiträge zu
Gottesdienst und Geschichte der fünf altkirchlichen Patriarchate für Heinzgerd Brakmann
zum 70. Geburtstag (orientalia – patristica – oecumenica 6,1–2), Wien – Berlin – Münster,
2014, p. 13–38. [It presents the codicological and liturgical principles used for thereconstruction of liturgical codices, in particular the typika of the White Monastery, and forthe identification of the feasts and pericopes in the typika and lectionaries.]
D. Atanassova, “Neue Erkenntnisse bei der Erforschung der sahidischen Quellen für die
Paschawoche,” in H. Behlmer, U. Pietruschka & F. Feder (ed.), Ägypten und der christliche
Orient. Peter Nagel zum 80. Geburtstag. Unter der Mitarbeit von Theresa Kohl (Texte und1

Studien zur Koptischen Bibel 1), Wiesbaden, 2018, p. 1–37. [Overview on the Bohairic Holy
Week tradition and new fragments and identifications for the five Sahidic Holy Week
lectionaries with two highlights for the Holy Saturday Hymn and Psalms within the Coptic
Liturgy.]
D. Atanassova, & T. Chronz, (ed.), Ⲥⲩⲛⲁⲝⲓⲥ Ⲕⲁⲑⲟⲗⲓⲕⲏ. Beiträge zu Gottesdienst und Geschichte
der fünf altkirchlichen Patriarchate für Heinzgerd Brakmann zum 70. Geburtstag (orientalia– patristica – oecumenica 6,1–2), Wien – Berlin – Münster, 2014.
D. Atanassova, & T.S. Richter, “4. Pergamentstreifen mit griechisch-koptischen Psalmversen fürden Wortgottesdienst dreier liturgischer Feste,” in A. Boud’hors, J. Cromwell, F. Krueger, A.
Märker & T. S. Richter (ed.): Coptica Lipsiensia. Koptische Texte, bearbeitet auf der 2.
Internationalen Sommerschule für Koptische Papyrologie (Leipzig, 26. Juli – 4. August 2008),
Archiv für Papyrusforschung, Beihefte, Berlin – New York, 2022, forthcoming.
A. Avdokhin, “Singers Silently Speaking: Psalmists in Inscriptions from Late Antique Middle
Egypt (Bawit),” Journal of Early Christian Studies 29,4 (2021), p. 607–636. [On the social
and administrative role of the “singers of psalms” in monastic communities in late antique
Egypt, focusing on Coptic dipinti and graffiti in the monastery complex of Apa Apollo at
Bawit.]
M. R.B., Awad, “Ein unpublizierter koptischer Hymnus über die drei Männer im Feuerofen in
der Pariser Hs. 68 im Vergleich zu einer entsprechenden Passage in der koptischen Jahres
Psalmodie,” in Y. N. Youssef & S. Moawad (ed.), From Old Cairo to the New World. Coptic
Studies Presented to Gawdat Gabra on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Colloquia
Antiqua 9), Leuven – Paris – Walpole, MA, 2013, p. 5–14. [Study of a hymn for three young
men in a furnace from Paris, BnF, Copte 68. Important correction: There is no marginal notewith the date 1443/44 in Paris Copte 68.]
A. Boud’hors, “L’apport des lectionnaires à l’histoire du texte copte sahidique de l’évangile deMarc,” in D. Atanassova & T. Chronz (ed.), Ⲥⲩⲛⲁⲝⲓⲥ Ⲕⲁⲑⲟⲗⲓⲕⲏ. Beiträge zu Gottesdienst undGeschichte der fünf altkirchlichen Patriarchate für Heinzgerd Brakmann zum 70. Geburtstag(orientalia – patristica – oecumenica 6,1–2), Wien – Berlin – Münster, 2014, p. 39–46.
H. Brakmann, “Le forme cultuali dell’antica chiesa di Alessandria e la successiva tradizione
rituale della Chiesa Copta,” in L. Vaccaro (ed.), Popoli, Religioni e Chiese lungo il corso delNilo. Dal Faraone cristiano al Leone di Giuda (Storia religiosa Euro-Mediterranea 4), Vatican
City, 2015, p. 247–264.
H. Brakmann, “New Discoveries and Studies in the Liturgy of the Copts (2004–2012),” in P.
Buzi, A. Camplani & F. Contardi (ed.), Coptic Society, Literature and Religion from Late
Antiquity to Modern Times. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Coptic
Studies, Rome, September 17th–22nd, 2012 and Plenary Reports of the Ninth International
Congress of Coptic Studies, Cairo, September 15th–19th, 2008, vol. 1–2 (Orientalia
Lovaniensia Analecta 247), Leuven – Paris – Bristol, CT, 2016, p. 457–481.
H. Brakmann, “Ordines und Orationen kirchlicher Eingliederung in Alexandrien und Ägypten,”in H. Brakmann, T. Chronz & C. Sode (ed.), »Neugeboren aus Wasser und Heiligem Geist«.
Kölner Kolloquium zur Initiatio Christiana (Jerusalemer Theologisches Forum 37), Münster,2020, p. 85–196.
H. Brakmann, “Die alexandrinische Markus-Liturgie und ihre arabische Version im Codex
Sinaiticus Arabicus 237,” in U. Zanetti, La liturgie de S. Marc dans le Sinai arabe 237. Édition
et traduction annotée, avec un état de la question par Heinzgerd Brakmann (Jerusalemer
Theologisches Forum 38), Munster, 2021, p. 9–40.
P. Buzi, Coptic Manuscripts 7: The Manuscripts of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preussischer
Kulturbesitz. Part 4: Homiletic and Liturgical Manuscripts from the White Monastery withtwo documents from Thebes and two Old-Nubian manuscripts, Stuttgart, 2014. [Among others
it includes Sahidic anaphora, lectionary, typikon, hermeneia and diakonikon entries as well as
two Old Nubian liturgica; see review by Schulz 2021]
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A. Camplani & F. Contardi, “Remarks on the Textual Contribution of the Coptic Codicespreserving the Canons of Saint Basil, with Edition of the Ordination Rite for the Bishop(Canon 46),” in F. P. Barone, C. Macé & P. A. Ubierna (ed.), Philologie, herméneutique ethistoire des textes entre Orient et Occident. Mélanges en hommage à Sever J. Voicu,
Turnhout, 2017, p. 139–159. [The Coptic Edition of Canon 46 attributed to Basil of Caesarea
from a newly discovered Ms. (end of 7th or beginning of the 8th c. in Cairo Coptic Museum).
The Canon 46 deals with the rite of ordination for a bishop including elements from different
phases of liturgical evolution. The text can be dated around the sixth century.]
T. Chronz, & A. Nikiforova, “Beobachtungen zum ältesten bekannten Tropologion-Codex
Sinaiticus graecus ΜΓ 56+5 des 8.–9. Jhs. mit Erstedition ausgewählter Abschnitte,” in D.
Atanassova & T. Chronz (ed.), Ⲥⲩⲛⲁⲝⲓⲥ Ⲕⲁⲑⲟⲗⲓⲕⲏ. Beiträge zu Gottesdienst und Geschichte
der fünf altkirchlichen Patriarchate für Heinzgerd Brakmann zum 70. Geburtstag (orientalia– patristica – oecumenica 6,1–2), Wien – Berlin – Münster 2014, p. 147–174. [The new
hymnographic findings reflect the Jerusalem tradition in Egypt, local practices and cults.]
S. J. Davis, G. Pyke, E. Davidson, M. Farag & D. Schriever, with contributions by Louise Blanke,“Left Behind: A Recent Discovery of Manuscript Fragments in the White Monastery Church,”
Journal of Coptic Studies 16 (2014), p. 69–88. [It includes liturgical fragments from the WhiteMonastery library, cf. p. 75, Fig. 5]
S. J. Davis, D. Schriever & M. Farag, The Feast of the Desert of Apa Shenoute. A Liturgical
Procession from the White Monastery in Upper Egypt. With Contributions by SamuelMoawad (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium 681, Scriptores coptici 53), Louvain,
2020. [An edition with English translation of the trilingual (Sahidic Coptic with Greek andArabic sections) manuscript Paris, BnF, Copte 68 presenting the rite of medieval liturgicalprocession at the White Monastery.]
Bishoy Dawood, “Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi: The Doctrine of the Theotokos as a liturgical Creedin the Coptic orthodox Church,” Journal of Coptic Studies 14 (2012), p. 47–62. [On the termand hymns of the Theotokos; The liturgical rite of the Midnight Tasbeha (Praises) Vigils as
an example of creedal affirmations of Christology]
Th. de Bruyn, “Appeals to the Intercessions of Mary in Greek Liturgical and Paraliturgical Texts
from Egypt,” in L. M. Peltomaa, A. Külzer & P. Allen (ed.), Presbeia Theothokou: The
Intercessory Role of Mary across Times and Places in Byzantium (4th–9th Century), Wien
2015, p. 115–129. [Two amulets PGM P5b and Suppl. Mag. I 26 (Vth c.) with formula ofappeal to the intercessions of Mary and other saints already established in the Vth century,
which was probably already composed in the 4th century.]
A. Delattre, “Une concordance des Psaumes en Copte sur ostracon. Réédition de
O.Brit.Mus.Copt. I, Pl. XVIII,1 (Inv. 5874) + Pl. XXI,1 (Inv. 5886) + P.Mon.Epiph. 16 (Inv.
14.1.129 A–F)”, Journal of Coptic Studies 23 (2021), p. 23–37. [A 50cm high ostracon fromthe Epiphanius’ topos in the Theban area, 7th c., with concordance of psalms called hermeneia]
A. Delattre & N. Vanthieghem, “Réexamen et mise en contexte d’un rouleau liturgique grec del’époque fatimide (P. Prag. I 3 + P. Stras. Inv. K 556),” in A. Boud’hors & C. Louis (ed.),Études coptes: Dix-septième journée d’études (Lisbonne, 18–20 juin 2015) (Cahiers de la
Bibliothèque Copte 22), Paris, 2018, p. 177–197. [One of the three Egyptian liturgical scrolls
written on paper known to date for a real liturgical use because of the short lines. The scroll
contains psalm verses for the feasts of the months Hathyr, Khoiakh, Tybi and Phamenoth,(November to March). The authors reconstruct a „bibliothèque liturgique“ originating from
Ashmunein, which today can be found in the collections of Heidelberg, Manchester, Prag,
Strasbourg & Vienna.]
A. Deptuła, Liturgical Poetry in Christian Nubia. The Evidence of Wall Inscriptions in the Lower
Church at Banganarti (The Journal of Juristic Papyrology, Supplement XXXVIII), Leuven –Paris – Bristol, CT, 2020. [Editio princeps of the 29 Greek inscriptions dated between the3

middle of seventh and turn of tenth-eleventh century from Banganarti (modern Sudan); manyof the texts are liturgical hymns in Greek.]
A. Deptuła, “Greek Sticheron from Medieval Nubia Praising John the Baptist (Q.I.1964, 6a
Revisited),” Symbolae Osloenses 94,1 (2020), p. 201–211. [A new edition of an eleventhcentury parchment fragment from Qasr Ibrim (Q.I. 1964,6a) containing a short hymn praising
John the Baptist, known in the oldest printed Byzantine Menaia.]
L. Elhage-Mensching, “The Praises in the Psalmody for the Month of Kiahk attributed to PopeMark. Partial edition of Ms. Cairo, CM 292,” in E. Schlarb (ed.), Den Orient erforschen, mit
Orthodoxen leben. Festschrift für Martin Tamcke zum Ende seiner aktiven Dienstzeit(Göttinger Orientenforschungen. I. Reihe: Syriaca 61), Wiesbaden, 2021, p. 165–177. [Theedition of nine Arabic praises from “The Psalmody for the month of Kiahk” in Ms. Cairo CM
292. The article specifies the attribution of the author as Pope Mark VI (1646–1656), the 101st
Patriarch of the Coptic Church.]
L. Elhage-Mensching, “The Arabic Pen Trial in the Sahidic Holy Week Lectionary of the
Bodleian Library,” Journal of Coptic Studies 22 (2020), p. 69–93. [A new phenomenon“probatio pennae” typical for the semitic tradition in the Sahidic Holy Week lectionary codex
sa 292L]
S. Emmel, “The Late Antique Egyptian Monastic Leader Shenoute and His Heresiological
Tractate I Am Amazed,” in A. Fürst (ed.), Origenes im koptischen Ägypten. Der Traktat desSchenute von Atripe gegen die Origenisten (Adamantiana. Texte und Studien zu Origenes uns
seinem Erbe 26, Kolloquien zum Nachleben des Origenes IX), Münster, 2022, p. 11–35. [Thearticle uses among others liturgical typika to prove the attribution of the tractate “I am
Amazed” to Shenoute. Chapter 3 deals with its liturgical use in the White Monastery.]M. K. Farag, “Relics vs. Paintings of the Three Holy Children: Coptic Responses to
Chalcedonian claims in Alexandria,” Analecta Bollandiana 137 (2019), p. 261–276. [Amongothers it concerns two homilies in Bohairic, the Logos of Theophilus and the Encomion ofCyril, which form a liturgical pair and had to be read in alternative years during the doxologythat is the Septuagint song of the Three Holy Children in the annual commemoration of thesaints on their feast day, the 10th of Pashons, in the church of the Monastery of St. Macarius
at Scetis.]
M. K. Farag, What makes a Church Sacred? Legal and Ritual Perspectives from Late Antiquity.
Oakland, California, 2021. [See particularly, the sixth chapter “Anniversaries” that deals withhomilies prescribed for reading during the liturgical commemoration of certain churchconsecrations.]
A. Gelston, Review to “Diliana Atanassova & Tinatin Chronz (ed.), Ⲥⲩⲛⲁⲝⲓⲥ Ⲕⲁⲑⲟⲗⲓⲕⲏ. Beiträge
zu Gottesdienst und Geschichte der fünf altkirchlichen Patriarchate für Heinzgerd Brakmann
zum 70. Geburtstag (orientalia – patristica – oecumenica 6,1–2), Wien – Berlin – Münster
2014, 854 pages,” The Journal of Theological Studies 66,1 (2015), p. 464–467.
A. Gerhards & T. Chronz (ed.), Orientierung über das Ganze. Liturgische Vielstimmigkeit derÖkumene und das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil (Ästhetik – Theologie – Liturgik 60), Berlin,
2015. [Most of the texts are German translations and abbreviated versions of the articles in FS
Brakmann ed. by Atanassova & Chronz 2014]
J. L. Hagen, & G. Ochała, “Saints and Scriptures for Phaophi: Preliminary Edition of andCommentary on a Typikon Fragment from Qasr Ibrim,” in D. Atanassova & T. Chronz (ed.),Ⲥⲩⲛⲁⲝⲓⲥ Ⲕⲁⲑⲟⲗⲓⲕⲏ. Beiträge zu Gottesdienst und Geschichte der fünf altkirchlichen
Patriarchate für Heinzgerd Brakmann zum 70. Geburtstag (orientalia – patristica –oecumenica 6,1–2), Wien – Berlin – Münster, 2014, p. 269–290. [The edition of Qasr Ibrim
Typikon QI.1966a/108.K33, which is a directory of pericopae for the 19th – 24th of Phaophi(October) with a detailed commentary using among others Sahidic typika and lectionaries
from the White Monastery as well as the Bohairic lectionary tradition.]4M. Kuhn, “Preserving Traditional Coptic Melodies outside Egypt,” in P. Buzi, A. Camplani &F. Contardi (ed.), Coptic Society, Literature and Religion from Late Antiquity to Modern
Times. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome, September
17th–22nd, 2012 and Plenary Reports of the Ninth International Congress of Coptic Studies,
Cairo, September 15th–19th, 2008, vol. 1–2 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 247), Leuven –Paris – Bristol, CT, 2016, p. 1259–1266. [On recordings on wax rolls in 1931 of the melodies“Tenen” and “Golgotha”]
A. Łajtar, “A Greek Hymn to the Virgin with Alphabetic Acrostics Found at Qasr Ibrim, Egyptian
Nubia,” in D. Atanassova & T. Chronz (ed.), Ⲥⲩⲛⲁⲝⲓⲥ Ⲕⲁⲑⲟⲗⲓⲕⲏ. Beiträge zu Gottesdienst undGeschichte der fünf altkirchlichen Patriarchate für Heinzgerd Brakmann zum 70. Geburtstag(orientalia – patristica – oecumenica 6,1–2), Wien – Berlin – Münster, 2014, p. 391–408.
A. Łajtar,“Ein griechischer Gottesmutterhymnus mit alphabetischer Akrostichis aus Qasr Ibrim,”in A. Gerhards & T. Chronz (ed.), Orientierung über das Ganze. Liturgische Vielstimmigkeit
der Ökumene und das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil (Ästhetik – Theologie – Liturgik 60),
Berlin, 2015, p. 77–80. [Short version in German of author’s article in FS Brakmann ed. by
Atanassova & Chronz 2014]
Ph. Luisier, “Review of Youhanna Nessim Youssef, The Interpretations of the Theotokias by the
Patriarch John Ibn Qiddis (Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 53), Piscataway, NJ, 2020”,
Orientalia Christiana Periodica 87 (2021), p. 304–307.
Ph. Luisier, “Review of Ramez, Mikhail, The Presentation of the Lamb. The Prothesis andPreparation Rites of the Coptic Liturgy (Studies in Eastern Christian Liturgies 2), Münster
2020,” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 87 (2021), p. 556–558.
Makari Bishop, Karas al-Baramusi & Michael Hilmi Raghib (ed.), Al-Difnar: Al-antifunaryun
al-sa’idi ‘an makhtut murgan M575 [The Difnar: The Upper Egyptian Antiphonarion basedon the manuscript Morgan M575], Cairo, 2018. [Publication in Arabic; see the review by
Mikhail 2018]
A. Maravela, Á.T. Mihálykó & G.Ø. Wehus, “A Coptic Liturgical Prayer for the Consecrationof the Chalice,” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 63 (2017), p. 211–213. [An edition withphilological, theological and liturgical commentary of the papyrus P.Oslo inv. 1665 from the
7th or 8th c. It contains a prayer that could be used for the liturgy of the presanctified, or for
the filling of the chalice, or for a service to consecrate additional wine]
N. Mekhaiel, “Die literarische Bezeugung Moses des Schwarzen in der koptischen Liturgie(Difnar und Synaxarium),” in F. Feder, A. Lohwasser & G. Schenke (ed.), Sortieren – Edieren– Kreieren. Zwischen Handschriftenfunden und Universitätsalltag. Stephen L. Emmel zum 70.
Geburtstag gewidmet (Aegyptiaca Monasteriensia 8), Düren, 2022, p. 386–397. [On the
Coptic-Arabic tradition concerning Moses the Black using a passage in the Coptic-Arabic
Synaxarium and the hymn for Moses in the Difnar as well as some sayings from the
Apophtegmata Patrum.]Á. T. Mihálykó, “Witnesses of a ‘Prayer of Offering’ in Sahidic from the White Monastery and
the Thebaid,” Journal of Coptic Studies 17 (2015), p. 127–140. [Editions with commentaries
and comparison of the parchment leaf from the White Monastery Paris, BnF, Copte 129.20, f.
157 (MONB.VD) as well as the ostraca from the Theban area O.Frangé 730 & BM EA 14180
witnessing a “prayer of offering”, which is no longer part of the printed Bohairic euchologia]
Á. T. Mihálykó, “P.Mon.Epiph. 607: Great Doxology and Trisagion,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie
und Epigraphik 194 (2015), p. 97–100. [A re-edition of the fragmentary 6th/7th century
ostracon from the Monastery of Epiphanius P.Mon.Epiph. 607 with call number Metropolitan
acq. n. 14.1.209. The recto is confirmed to contain the verses 29 to 42 of the Great Doxology
while the verso has been newly identified as a developed Coptic Trisagion.]
Á. T. Mihálykó, “P.Matr.inv.46: Hymn to Mary,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
207 (2018), p. 41–46. [A papyrus fragment from Madrid dated late 8th or 9th c. with a typicalhymn to the Virgin Mary the place of which within Coptic liturgy is not clear.]5Á. T. Mihálykó, “The Thrice Blessed Pesynthios of Koptos and the Presanctified Holies: Some
Notes on a Coptic Pastoral Letter (P.Berol. 11346),” Adamantius 24 (2018), p. 143–149.
[Corrections and new readings with interpretation of a seventh-century Coptic pastoral letterfrom the Thebaid P.Berol. 11346 concerning the Eucharist]
Á. T. Mihálykó, “A New Complete Witness of a Sahidic „Prayers of Offering“ on Ostracon (BMEA 14180 + P.Berol. 1086),” Journal of Coptic Studies 21 (2019), p. 163–172. [Newly
identified part (P.Berol. 1086) of an ostracon BM EA 14180 (7th c.) with the shorter and earlier
version of the Sahidic “Prayer of Offering” preserved in parchment codex MONB.VD, see
Mihálykó 2015a]
Á.T. Mihálykó, The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction (Studien und Texte zu Antike
und Christentum 114), Tübingen, 2019. [An extensive introduction to the liturgical items fromthe third to the ninth century such as Greek and Coptic hymns, prayers, and acclamations withdetailed inventory as well as in-depth study of their date and provenance.]
Á.T. Mihálykó, “The persistence of Greek and the rise of Coptic in the early Christian liturgy in
Egypt,” in A. Nodar & S. Torallas Tovar (ed.), Proceedings of the 28th International Congressof Papyrology, Barcelona 1–6 August 2016 (Scripta Orientalia 3), Barcelona, 2019, p. 698‒
705.
Á.T. Mihálykó, “Healing in Christian Liturgy in Late Antique Egypt: Sources and Perspectives,”
Trends in Classics 13 (2021), p. 154‒194.
Á.T. Mihálykó, “Mary, Michael and the Twenty -Four Elders: Saints and Angels in Christian
Liturgical and Magical Texts,” in Proceedings of the 29th International Congress of
Papyrology (Lecce 2019), p. 692‒701, forthcoming.
Á.T. Mihálykó, – R. A. Mikhail, “A Prayer for the Preparation of the Priest and the First Prayerof the Morning in Sahidic Coptic [P.Ilves Copt. 8],” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 87(2021), p. 353–370. [A newly edited and commented upon Sahidic fragment from the Ilves
Collection, Helsinki from a paper Euchologion, 11th c., from Hermopolis/Al-Ashmunayn. It
contains a prayer of apology of the priest and an idiosyncratic redaction of the First Prayer ofthe Morning.]
R. Mikhail, “On Evening Worship in Egypt: A Theological Evaluation of Contemporary Practicein Light of Patristic and Medieval Sources,” Coptica 12 (2013), p. 77–94.
R. Mikhail, “Aspects of Witness in the Coptic Liturgical Tradition,” The Alexandria School
Journal 1 (2014), p. 1–26.
R. Mikhail, “The Presanctified Liturgy of the Apostle Mark in Sinai Ar. 237: Text andCommentary,” Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferratam III, s.12 (2015), p. 163–214.
[An edition and analysis of the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts in the Liturgy of St. Mark in
its Melkite recension preserved until now only in the 13th-century Arabic codex Sinai ar. 237
on folios 256r–258v]
R. Mikhail, “The Coptic Church and the Presanctified Liturgy: The Story of a Rejected
Tradition,” The Alexandria School Journal 3 (2016), 2–30.
R. Mikhail, “Towards a History of Liturgical Vestments in the Coptic Rite: I: Minor Orders,
Deacons, and Presbyters,” Coptica 15 (2016), p. 55–70. [First part of the analysis of thehistory of Coptic liturgical vestments for the minor orders such as deacons and presbyters.
The current practice of vesting is described as “fairly irregular”.]
R. Mikhail, “Towards a History of Liturgical Vestments in the Coptic Rite: II: Bishops andPatriarchs,” Coptica 16 (2017), p. 55–66. [Second part of the analysis of the history of Coptic
liturgical vestments dealing with those for the bishop and the patriarch as there is a clear
distinction between them.]
R. Mikhail, “A Magical Cure for Rabies: The Coptic Liturgical Service in Honor of Abū Tarbū,”in P. Bukovec & V. Tadić (ed.), Ritualia Orientalia Mixta: Reflexionen über Rituale in der
Religionsgeschichte des Orients und angrenzender Gebiete (Religionen im Vorderen Orient64) Hamburg, 2017, p. 267–289. [On the prayer of St. Abu Tarbu which is used for a ritual
combining worship elements and magical aspects.]
R. Mikhail, “Einige Bemerkungen aus der koptischen liturgischen Tradition im ökumenischen
Kontext,” in R. Augustin, P. Bukovec, D. Haspelmath-Finatti & F. Wegscheider (ed.),
Liturgie als Chance und Herausforderung für die Ökumene: Beiträge derLiturgiewissenschaft zur Einheit der Kirche (Pro Oriente 41), Innsbruck, 2018, p. 99–104.
R. Mikhail, “The Liturgy Coram Patriarcha Revisited: The Prothesis of the Coptic Patriarchal
Liturgy in Sources of the 15th–16th Centuries,” Le Muséon 131 (2018), p. 279–312. [Asystematic analysis of the patriarchal prothesis rite using new sources such as the description
in Coptic Patriarchate 74 Lit. (AD 1444), the codex Baramus 6/278 (AD 1514), and an
addendum to Ibn Kabar's description of the liturgy in Uppsala O.Vet. 12 (AD 1546).]
R. Mikhail, “Review to Al-Difnar: Al-antifunaryun al-sa’idi ‘an makhtut murgan M575 [TheDifnar: The Upper Egyptian Antiphonarion based on the manuscript Morgan M575], ed.
Bishop Makari, Karas al-Baramusi and Michael Helmi Raghib, Cairo 2018,” Coptica 17(2018), p. 89–92.
R. Mikhail, “Prostrating, Processing, and Burying: The Human Body and its Participation in the
Coptic Tradition for Great Friday,” in A. Lossky, G. Sekulovski & Th. Pott (ed.), Le corps
humain dans la liturgie: 65e Semaine d’études liturgiques, Paris, Institut Saint-Serge, 2–5
juillet 2018 (Studia Oecumenica Friburgensia 90), Münster, 2019, p. 179–191. [Analysis of
the origin of a series of one hundred prostrations in each direction, of a seven-fold processionof the cross and of burial icon of Christ around the altar and nave during the Great Friday
service. The Coptic tradition is compared with other Eastern Christian traditions.]
R. Mikhail, “Chancen und Herausforderungen für die Ökumene: Einige Bemerkungen aus der
koptischen liturgischen Tradition,” Ostkirchliche Studien 68 (2019), p. 307–326. [It is an
expanded version of the author’s text in Liturgie als Chance und Herausforderung 2018]
R. Mikhail, “‘We will Enter into His Dwelling Place’: Reconstructing the History of the Chants
at the Transfer of the Gifts in Egypt,” in M. Lüstraeten, B. Butcher & S. Hawkes-Teeples(ed.), Let us be Attentive! Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of the Society ofOriental Liturgy Prešov (Slovakia), 9–14 July 2018 (Studies in Eastern Christian Liturgies 1),
Münster, 2020, p. 173–187.
R. A. Mikhail, The Presentation of the Lamb: The Prothesis and Preparatory Rites of the Coptic
Liturgy (Studies in Eastern Christian Liturgies 2), Münster, 2020. [An in-depth study of theprothesis rite according to which the oblations of bread and wine are chosen and put on thealtar. Only in the Coptic tradition it is a central public activity for both clergy and laity. The
author is presenting the evolution of the rite in Northern Egypt, see review by Luisier 2021]
R. A. Mikhail (ed.), The Eucharist in Medieval Egypt: Three Arabic Guides to the Coptic Liturgy.
Yuhanna ibn Sabba, Abu al-Barakat ibn Kabar, and Pope Gabriel V (Christian Arabic Texts
in Translation 2), New York, 2022. [Introduction to the worship tradition of the Coptic Church
in the 14th and 15th c. as well as an English translation of excerpts from the works of such
authors as Abu al-Barakat ibn Kabar, Yuhanna ibn Sabba‘, and Pope Gabriel V.]
R. Mikhail, “‘And They Shall Stand Bareheaded’: On the Historical Development of Liturgical
Head-Covering in the Coptic Rite,” in Hany N. Takla et al, (ed.), Proceedings of the EleventhInternational Congress of Coptic Studies, Claremont, California, July 25th–30th, 2016
(Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta Leuven). Forthcoming.
I. Miroshnikov, “A New Fragment of the Acrostic Hymn in Praise of the Archangel Michael(P.MorganLib. 272),” in F. Feder, A. Lohwasser & G. Schenke (ed.), Sortieren – Edieren –Kreieren. Zwischen Handschriftenfunden und Universitätsalltag. Stephen L. Emmel zum 70.
Geburtstag gewidmet (Aegyptiaca Monasteriensia 8), Düren, 2022, p. 399–417. [A semidiplomatic edition of P.MorganLib. 272 – two parchment leaves from a pastedown. The
content was newly identified as alphabetic acrostic hymn in Coptic in praise of Michael. An
English translation is included.]7

S. Moawad, “Liturgische Hinweise in koptischen literarischen Werken,” in Y.N. Youssef & S.
Moawad (ed.), From Old Cairo to the New World. Coptic Studies Presented to Gawdat Gabra
on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Colloquia Antiqua 9), Leuven – Paris – Walpole,
MA 2013, p. 125–145. [On the liturgical hints and remarks in literary sources such as the Lifeof Aphu, the bishop of Oxyrhynchos, the archive of Apa Abraham, the bishop of Hermonthis,the Discourses of Apa Shenoute of Atripe (“I am amased”) etc.]
M. Müller, “Review to Lothar Störk, Koptische Handschriften 5: Die Handschriften der
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Teil 2: Liturgische Handschriften.
Verzeichnis orientalischer Handschriften in Deutschland XXI/5. Stuttgart 2021” Journal of
Coptic Studies 23 (2021), p. 228–231.
A. Nikiforova: А. Никифорова, “Египетский след в йерусалимском Тропологии
SIN.GR.NE/МГ 56+5,” Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 13:Востоковедение. Африканистика 4 (2016), p. 40–54.
A. Nikiforova, “The Consecration of Holy Myron in the Near East: A Reconstruction Attempt of
the Greek-Melkite Rite (with the Edition of Sinai Greek NF/ E 55 + Fragment E sine numero,
A.D. 1156),” Orientalia Cristiana Periodica 85 (2019), p. 167–216. [Greek ordo of the Myronconsecration close to Syriac and Coptic rites; Three Greek mss (Sinai Geek NF/E 55 sheds
light on the lost rite in Vat.Gr. 1970, and on the part of the rite in the Typicon of Anastasis)
represents the rite of the Greeks in the Near East.]
A. Nikiforova & T. Chronz, “The Codex Sinaiticus Liturgicus Revisited: A New Edition andCritical Assessment of the Text,” Orientalia Cristiana Periodica 83 (2017), p. 59–125.
G. Ochała, “The Nubian liturgical calendar: The evidence of the Nubian lectionaries,” Le Museon
128 (2015), p. 1–48.
D. Oltean & Y. N. Youssef, “Ascèse et liturgie dans l’Orient chrétien. Coutumes monastiques àl’enfermement d’un reclus,” Zeitschrift für Antike und Christentum 24 (2020), p. 585–605.
A. A. Petrin, “Reconsidering the ‘Egyptian Connection’ in the Anaphora of Fourth-Century
Jerusalem,” Studia Patristica XCII,18 (2017), p. 65–76.
U. Pietruschka & I. Hegenbarth-Reichardt, Koptische Handschriften 6: Die Handschriften der
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Bohairische und bohairisch-arabische
Handschriften. Unter Mitwirkung von Jürgen Horn, Veronika Six und Antonia St Demiana.
Stuttgart, 2018. [It includes Bohairic-Arabic liturgica which are described from n° 24 up to n°
53. Their content presents often pericopes for the Holy Week lectionary, hymns for several
festivals or homiliary, euchologia, theotokia, anaphorae of Basil, Cyrill.]
G. Radle, “The Liturgical Ties between Egypt and Southern Italy: A Preliminary Investigation,”in D. Atanassova & T. Chronz (ed.), Ⲥⲩⲛⲁⲝⲓⲥ Ⲕⲁⲑⲟⲗⲓⲕⲏ. Beiträge zu Gottesdienst undGeschichte der fünf altkirchlichen Patriarchate für Heinzgerd Brakmann zum 70. Geburtstag(orientalia – patristica – oecumenica 6,1–2), Wien – Berlin – Münster, 2014, p. 617–632.
S. G. Richter & M. H.O. Schulz, “Neu katalogisierte Fragmente koptischer NT-Handschriften
im INTF,” Journal of Coptic Studies 18 (2016), p. 91–111. [Short mentioning of lectionaries
sa 389L and sa 394L; newly identified Psalm verses on Paris leaves in lectionary sa 382L].
A. Rogozhina: Рогожина, Анна А., “Гимнографические свидетельства «обмена святыми»между Египтом и Сирией в первом тысячелетии н.э.,” Вестник ПСТГУ, Серия 3:Филология 61 (2019), 93–103. [A discussion on the “exchange of saints” between Egypt and
Syria in the second half of the first millennium]
A. Rogozhina, “And from his side came blood and milk”. The Martyrdom of St Philotheus of
Antioch in Coptic Egypt and Beyond (Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 52), Piscataway, NJ,
2019. [Connected to the Coptic liturgy are particularly the pages 254–264, 361–363, andAppendix III.]A. A. Sadek, “L’héritage copte des prières de l’Égypte ancienne: d’Horus à Abou Tarbou?,” inP. Buzi, A. Camplani & F. Contardi (ed.), Coptic Society, Literature and Religion from Late
Antiquity to Modern Times. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Coptic
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Studies, Rome, September 17th–22nd, 2012 and Plenary Reports of the Ninth International
Congress of Coptic Studies, Cairo, September 15th–19th, 2008, vol. 1–2 (Orientalia
Lovaniensia Analecta 247), Leuven – Paris – Bristol, CT, 2016, p. 1289–1297.
K. D. Sandmeier, “Zwei Pergamentfragmente in Paris: Act 13,38–39 und 20,24–26.28–31 in
Koptisch, Psalm 2,6–10 und Mt 2,1–2.4–5 in Griechisch,” in F. Feder, A. Lohwasser, G.
Schenke (ed.), Sortieren – Edieren – Kreieren. Zwischen Handschriftenfunden undUniversitätsalltag. Stephen L. Emmel zum 70. Geburtstag gewidmet (Aegyptiaca
Monasteriensia 8), Düren, 2022, p. 386–397. [Palaeographical analysis of lectionary fragmentsa 459L. The pericopes were read most probably for Christmas]
I. Saweros & J. van der Vliet, “Naqlun N. 76/93: Cyril of Jerusalem, the Marian Dormition and
the Sahidic antiphonary,” Journal of Coptic Studies 22 (2020), p. 187–203.
K. D. Schröder, “Fragment eines Lektionars,” Journal of Coptic Studies 19 (2017), p. 38–40. [A
codicological and text critical analysis of a lectionary papyrus fragment P.PalauRib. Inv. 134
dated 6./7. c.]
A. Suciu, “Quotations from the Physiologus in a Homily of the Coptic Holy Week Lectionary,”in D. Atanassova & T. Chronz (ed.), Ⲥⲩⲛⲁⲝⲓⲥ Ⲕⲁⲑⲟⲗⲓⲕⲏ. Beiträge zu Gottesdienst undGeschichte der fünf altkirchlichen Patriarchate für Heinzgerd Brakmann zum 70. Geburtstag(orientalia – patristica – oecumenica 6,1–2), Wien – Berlin – Münster, 2014, p. 677–690.
A. Suciu, “Coptic Scribes and Manuscripts: Dated and Datable Codices from the Monastery of
Apa Shenoute. I. The Codices Inscribed by Victor, Son of Shenoute (First Half of the 12th
Century),” Journal of Coptic Studies 16 (2014), p. 195–216. [The White Monastery lectionary
sa 305L has dated colophon July 16, 1118 AD and was written by the scribe Victor, son of
Shenoute, who wrote at least other seven codices.]
M. H.O., Schulz, “Is There Evidence for a Lectionary Text in Sahidic Coptic?,” in H. A. G.
Houghton (ed.), Liturgy and the Living Text of the New Testament. Papers from the TenthBirmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament (Texts and Studies
16), New Jersey, 2018, p. 197–224.
M. H.O., Schulz, “Cataloguing in the Time of Databases: The Example of P. Buzi’s Catalogueof Coptic Manuscripts of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin,” Journal of Coptic Studies 23 (2021),
p. 173–199. [Corrections to the description of the liturgical Coptic and Old Nubian leaves andfragments such as MONB.VB, p. 183; sa 295L, p. 184; sa 636L, p. 191; MONB.WT, p. 193;
MONB.WS, p. 193; MONB.WQ (p. 194), see also f. 48–49 on p. 194-195, No. 19 on p. 195–
196 and No. 20 on p. 196.]
E. Smagina: Смагина, Евгения Б., “Гермения как жанр в коптской богослужебной
литературе,” Вестник ПСТГУ, Серия 3: Филология 57 (2018), p. 102–109. [On the term
“hermenia” and its connection to the biblical “literature of Wisdom”; The author’s hypothesisis that the hermenia is “an abridged variant of the numerical midrash” used in the early Coptic
Church for liturgical aims.]
L. Störk, Koptische Handschriften 5: Die Handschriften der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin –Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Teil 2: Liturgische Handschriften 2, beschrieben von Stuttgart
2021. [Detailed description of Bohairic liturgical books, from the 15. up to 19. century, suchas horologion, hymns, lectionaries, euchologia, turuhat of the Holy Week. Review by M.
Müller]K. A. Worp & R. Dekker, “Missing Papyri: the Greek and Coptic Papyri in the von Scherling
Papyrus Collection,” in The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 49 (2012), p.
175–208. [One liturgical fragment 2211 with anaphora of the Mass, the Praefatio in Greek,
and two unidentified liturgical fragments 2227, 2228]
G. Wurst, “Der fragmentarische Anfang der Pascha-Homilie des Melito von Sardes im CrosbySchøyen Codex MS 193 der Schøyen Collection,” in F. Feder, A. Lohwasser & G. Schenke(ed.), Sortieren – Edieren – Kreieren. Zwischen Handschriftenfunden und Universitätsalltag.
Stephen L. Emmel zum 70. Geburtstag gewidmet (Aegyptiaca Monasteriensia 8), Düren, 2022,
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p. 386–397. [A new edition of pages 17–14, 23–24 of MS 193 with newly deciphered lettersand lines as well as a reconstruction of the text to a great extant.]
Y. N. Youssef, “Prayers attributed to Severus of Antioch,” Oriens Christianus 96 (2012), p. 165–
176.
Y. N. Youssef, “Turûhât of Kîahk,” Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte LI (2012), p. 91–
116.
Y. N. Youssef, “La prière pour l’acceptation de ceux qui veulent joinder l’Église Copte,” in A.
Lossky & M. Sodi (ed.), La liturgie témoin de l’Eglise: conferences Saint-Serge LVIIe
Semaine d’études liturgiques, Paris, 28 juin–1er juillet 2010 (Monumenta, studia, instrumenta
liturgica 66), Vatican City, 2012, p. 131–146.
Y. N. Youssef, “A New Witness of a Copto-Greek Hymn – Poiekon,” Ancient Near EasternStudies 49 (2012), p. 184–201.
Y. N. Youssef, “Liturgical texts relating to Sarapamon of Nikiu,” Ancient Near Eastern Studies
50 (2013), p. 263–280.
Y. N. Youssef, “A Mnemonic for the Coptic Psalmodia,” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 79(2013), p. 197–208.
Y. N. Youssef, “A New Document Concerning the Myron,” in Y. N. Youssef & S. Moawad(ed.), From Old Cairo to the New World. Coptic Studies Presented to Gawdat Gabra on the
Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Colloquia Antiqua 9), Leuven – Paris – Walpole, MA,
2013, p. 203–217.
Y. N. Youssef, “A Graeco-Coptic Ode,” Ephemerides Liturgicae 127 (2013), p. 226–237.
Y. N. Youssef, “Liturgical texts related to Anba Ruwais,” Oriens Christianus 97 (2013/2014), p.
160–175.
Y. N. Youssef, “Litanies or prayers for travellers,” Scrinium X (2014), p. 208–216.
Y. N. Youssef, “Coptic and Arabic Liturgical Texts Relating to Moses the Black,” in D.
Atanassova & T. Chronz (ed.), Ⲥⲩⲛⲁⲝⲓⲥ Ⲕⲁⲑⲟⲗⲓⲕⲏ. Beiträge zu Gottesdienst und Geschichte
der fünf altkirchlichen Patriarchate für Heinzgerd Brakmann zum 70. Geburtstag (orientalia– patristica – oecumenica 6,1–2), Wien – Berlin – Münster, 2014, p. 751–766.
Y. N. Youssef, “Procession of the Cross according to a rite of Dayr Bayad”, Nova Studia
Aegyptiaca IX (2014), p. 1–10.
Y. N. Youssef, “Further Notes on the Doxology Adam. The Hymn of the Seven Tunes,” Ancient
Near Eastern Studies 51 (2014), p. 353–357.
Y. N. Youssef, “Coptic bohairic psalis related to Lazarus,” Ephemerides Liturgicae 129,4 (2015),
p. 496–510.
Y. N. Youssef, “Acrostic Psali Batos and Adam,” Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte 54(2015), p. 27–45.
Y. N. Youssef, “Two doxologies from the Psalmodia of Sammanud,” Oriens Christianus 98(2015), p. 21–27.
Y. N. Youssef, “Liturgy of the Monastery of al-Muharraq,” in G. Gabra & H.N. Takla (ed.),Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt. Al-Minya and Asyut, Cairo – New York, 2015,
p. 169–183.
Y. N. Youssef, “La doxologie des êtres célestes et son importance liturgique,” Etudes coptes 13(2015), p. 295–296.
Y. N. Youssef, “Psali of the Lectionary (revisited): Yusif the Hymnographer,” Bulletin de laSociété d’Archéologie Copte 55 (2016), p. 141–174.
Y. N. Youssef, “The Life of Christ in Coptic Psalis,” Ancient Near Eastern Studies 53 (2016), p.
275–285.
Y. N. Youssef, “Doxology and Eschatology,” in P. Buzi, A. Camplani & F. Contardi (ed.), Coptic
Society, Literature and Religion from Late Antiquity to Modern Times. Proceedings of theTenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Rome, September 17th–22nd, 2012 andPlenary Reports of the Ninth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Cairo, September 15th–
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19th, 2008, vol. 1–2 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 247), Leuven – Paris – Bristol, CT,
2016, p. 1279–1287.
Y. N. Youssef, “Hymns of Severus of Antioch and the Coptic Theotokia,” in J. D’Alton & Y.
Youssef (ed.), Severus of Antioch. His Life and Times (Texts and Studies in Eastern
Christianity 7), Leiden – Boston, 2016, p. 183–198.
Y. N. Youssef, “Two Psalis mentioning the Holy Places in Jerusalem,” Oriens Christianus 100(2017), p. 43–56.
Y. N. Youssef, “La lettre de Denys l’Aréopagite à Timothée comme texte liturgique,” in Željko
Paša, S.J. (ed.), Between the Cross and the crescent. Studies in Honor of Samir Khalil Samir,
S.J. on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (Orientalia Christiana Analecta 304), Rome,
2018, p. 279–288.
Y. N. Youssef, “Psali for the 3rd Ode,” Ancient Near Eastern Studies 55 (2018), p. 91–101.
Y. N. Youssef, “Les Saints Dioscorus et Asclépius,” Ephemerides Liturgicae 132 (2018), p. 347–
363.
Y. N. Youssef, “The Liturgical Texts relation to Saint Apater,” Bulletin de la Sociétéd’Archéologie Copte 58 (2019), p. 119–138.
Y. N. Youssef, “A homily ascribed to John Chrysostom on the Holy Family in Egypt,” Oriens
Christianus 102 (2019), p. 17–40.
Y. N. Youssef, “The Commemoration of the Council of Nicaea on 19 Hatûr in Coptic liturgicaltexts,” Ephemerides Liturgicae 134 (2020), p. 89–100.
Y. N. Youssef, “The Commemoration of the Council of Alexandria on the third day of Tût in
Coptic liturgical texts,” Ephemerides Liturgicae 134 (2020), p. 192–201.
Y. N. Youssef, “Liturgical texts relating to the First Council of Ephesus (431): the Origin of theDate of 12th of Tût in the Coptic Calendar,” Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 17 (2020), p.
273–297.
Y. N. Youssef, “Gregory the Armenian in Coptic Liturgical Books,” in B. Outtier, C.B. Horn, B.
Lourié & A. Ostrovsky (ed.), Armenia between Byzantium and the Orient: celebrating thememory of Karen Yuzbashyan (1927–2009) (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity 16),
Leiden – Boston, 2020, p. 633–648.
Y. N. Youssef, “The feast of circumcision in the Coptic tradition,” Oriens Christianus 103(2020), p. 170–187.
Y. N. Youssef, Interpretations of the Theotokias by the Patriarch John Ibn Qiddis (Gorgias
Eastern Christian Studies 53), Piscataway, NJ, 2020. [See review by Luisier 2021]
Y. N. Youssef, “Psali on the Virgin with the Prophecies,” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 87(2021), p. 269–279.
Y. N. Youssef & S. F. Soliman, “A Copto-Greek Hymn for John the Baptist,” Ephemerides
liturgicae 131 (2017), p. 41–79.
Y. N. Youssef & U. Zanetti, La consécration du Myron par Gabriel IV, 86e patriarched’Alexandrie, en 1374 A.D. (Jerusalemer Theologisches Forum 20), Münster, 2014.
U. Zanetti, “Deux prières de la fraction de la liturgie de Grégoire, en grec et en copte,”
Orientalia Christiana Periodica 78 (2012), p. 291–333.
U. Zanetti: Занетти, Уго, “Коптская литургия,” ΧΡΙϹΤΙΑΝΟϹ 22 (2013), p. 185–194.
[Concise overview on the Coptic liturgy in Russian]U. Zanetti, “La liturgie dans les monastères de Shenoute,” Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie
Copte 53 (2014), p. 167–224. [An overview on the liturgy of the White Monastery in French.]
U. Zanetti, “Inventaire des prières de la fraction de la liturgie copte,” in D. Atanassova & T.
Chronz (ed.), Ⲥⲩⲛⲁⲝⲓⲥ Ⲕⲁⲑⲟⲗⲓⲕⲏ. Beiträge zu Gottesdienst und Geschichte der fünf
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U. Zanetti, “L’edition critique des lectionnaires liturgiques,” Bollettino della Badia Greca di
Grottaferrata III,11 (2014), p. 277–302. [On the principles and methods for investigating andfor editing of Coptic lectionaries]
U. Zanetti, “Brotbrechungsgebete der koptischen Liturgie,” in A. Gerhards & T. Chronz (ed.),Orientierung über das Ganze. Liturgische Vielstimmigkeit der Ökumene und das Zweite
Vatikanische Konzil (Ästhetik – Theologie – Liturgik 60), Berlin, 2015, p. 73–75. [Shortversion in German of author’s article in FS Brakmann ed. by Atanassova & Chronz 2014]
U. Zanetti, “Les moines cénobites de Haute Égypte et leur liturgie,” Irénikon 88 (2015), p. 348–
388.
U. Zanetti, “Manuscrits de St-Macaire. Supplément n° 2,” Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie
Copte 54 (2015), p. 179–221. [A catalogue description of the liturgical manuscripts numbered
as Liturgica n° 273–294]
U. Zanetti, “Questions liturgiques dans les «Canons de Shenoute»,” Orientalia Christiana
Periodica 82 (2016), p. 67–99.
U. Zanetti, “Femmes et saintes en terre d’Égypte,” in Figures de sainteté féminine, musulmane
et chrétienne en Afrique du Nord et au Proche-Orient, Actes du colloque internationalorganisé par le Centre d’études et d’interprétation du fait religieux de la Faculté des sciences
religieuses de l’Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, 20–21 février 2015, Beyrouth, 2016, p.
129–152.
U. Zanetti, “Were There Deaconesses in Egypt?,” in Ph. Zagano (ed.), Women Deacons? Essays
with Answers, Collegeville, Minnesota 2016, p. 164–167.
U. Zanetti, “Récente … mais ancienne. Une prière copte de la Fraction,” Bulletin de la Sociétéd’Archéologie Copte 55 (2016), p. 127–141.
U. Zanetti, “Le Mardi Saint chez les Coptes: Un Lavement des Pieds? Des Présanctifiés?,” in Ž.
Paša, S.J. (ed.), Between the Cross and the Crescent. Studies in Honor of Samir Khalil Samir,
S.J. on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, Rome, 2018, p. 289–297. [The author discusses
a hypothesis of E. Lanne (1961) on the Holy Tuesday and proves without doubt that thecelebration of “feet washing” was always on Holy Thursday and never on Holy Tuesday.]U. Zanetti, “Prière de la Fraction sur la vision d’Isaïe (et autres),” Bulletin de la Sociétéd’Archéologie Copte 57 (2018), p. 61–74.
U. Zanetti, “Dix brèves prières de la Fraction,” Bulletin de la Société d’Archéologie Copte 58(2019), 139–170.
U. Zanetti, “Où en sont les recherches sur la liturgie copte?,” in B. Groen, D. Galadza, N. Glibetic& G. Radle (ed.), Studies in Oriental Liturgy. Proceedings of the Fifth International Congressof the Society of Oriental Liturgy, New York, 10–15 June 2014 (Eastern Christian Studies 28),
Leuven – Paris – Bristol, CT, 2019, p. 49–74. [An overview on the progress in Coptic liturgicalStudies, 2012 – 2014]
U. Zanetti, “Pierre et Paul dans les liturgies orientales,” Irénikon XCIII (2020), p. 285–345.
U. Zanetti, “Review to: Mihálykó, Ágnes T., The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction(Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum 114), Tübingen 2019, I–XV, 1–451.” Journalof Coptic Study 23 (2021), p. 214–215.
U. Zanetti, “Les anaphores coptes,” Connaissance des Pères de l’Église 161 (2021), p. 47–62.
U. Zanetti, “Le manuscrit Vatican arabe 58,” Parole de l’Orient 47 (2021), p. 193–218. [Detailed
description on the paper Arabic Ms. dated in 1712 AD]
U. Zanetti, La liturgie de S. Marc dans le Sinai arabe 237. Édition et traduction annotée, avec unétat de la question par Heinzgerd Brakmann (Jerusalemer Theologisches Forum 38), Munster
2021.
U. Zanetti & S. J. Davis, “Liturgy and Ritual Practice in the Shenoutian Federation,” in E. S.
Bolman (ed.), The Red Monastery Church. Beauty and Asceticism in Upper Egypt, New
Haven – London, 2016, p. 27–35. [An overview on the liturgy in the Shenoutian Federation]

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U. Zanetti & S. Voicu, “Christian liturgical manuscripts,” in A. Bausi et al. (ed.), Comparative
Oriental Manuscript Studies. An Introduction, Hamburg, 2015, p. 462–465. [Overview on the
difference between liturgical and literary manuscripts, on the way of publishing liturgicalmanuscripts, different standard models. Lectionaries were used as an example to show how toedit the liturgical manuscripts. Coptic liturgica are also considered in this overview.]
B. DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS AND DATABASES
D. Atanassova, & L. Elhage-Mensching, Sahidic Euchologia – includes the transcriptions of four
Sahidic euchologia from the White Monastery
https://coptot.manuscriptroom.com/web/sahidic-euchologia/home
L. Elhage-Mensching, “New DFG Project at the Göttingen Academy: ‘Digital Edition andCritical Evaluation of the Coptic Holy Week Lectionary’ (01.04.2022–31.03.2025)” (posted
4.11.2022)
https://coptot.manuscriptroom.com/blog/-/blogs/new-dfg-project-at-the-gottingen-academydigital-edition-and-critical-evaluation-of-the-coptic-holy-week-lectionary-01-04-2022-31-032025-?_33
L. Elhage-Mensching, “A Coptic folio finds its way back home: New insights into BnF, Copte
129.19, folio 85” (posted 11.01.2020)
https://coptot.manuscriptroom.com/blog/-/blogs/a-coptic-folio-finds-its-way-back-home-newinsights-into-bnf-copte-129-19-folio-85?_33
L. Elhage-Mensching, “On an uncommon Arabic ‘probatio pennae’ in Lectionary Codex sa
292L” (posted 06.20.2020)
https://coptot.manuscriptroom.com/blog/-/blogs/on-an-uncommon-arabic-probatio-pennae-incodex-sa-292l?_33
L. Elhage-Mensching, “A Sahidic-Arabic paper fragment from a lectionary in the Michigan
Collection” (posted 2.19.2020)
https://coptot.manuscriptroom.com/blog/-/blogs/a-sahidic-arabic-paper-fragment-in-themichigan-collection?_33
online lectures:
Fr. Arsenius Mikhail, “History of Coptic Orthodox Lectionary”, 23.03.2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVy91jfwMco
online data bases and catalogues:
APIS – Advanced Papyrological Information System including also Coptic liturgica
https://papyri.info/docs/apis
CoptOT – Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament with editions and metadata of lectionaries
and hermeneiai
https://coptot.manuscriptroom.com/

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Gallica – Bibliothèque nationale de France
https://gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/de/content/accueil-de?mode=desktop
DBMNT – Database of Medieval Nubian Texts
http://www.dbmnt.uw.edu.pl/newcomers.htm
DVL –DigiVatLib of the Vatican Libraryhttps://digi.vatlib.it/mss/
KOHD Katalogisierung der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland
https://orient-mss.kohd.adw-goe.de/content/index.xml
ÖNB Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
https://search.onb.ac.at/primo-explore/search?vid=ONB
PAThs – An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature with metadata of Coptic liturgical mss.
https://atlas.paths-erc.eu/
SMR – Datenbank koptischer neutestamentlicher Handschriften including descriptions of
Coptic lectionaries
http://intf.uni-muenster.de/smr/
ThAlles – Thesaurus Antiquorum Lectionariorum Ecclesiae Synagogaeque including Bohairic
lectionary data provided by Ugo Zanetti
http://www.lectionary.eu/

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