Titles
- መጽሐፈ፡ ክርስትና፡, Maṣḥafa krǝstǝnnā, Book of Christening
- መጽሐፈ፡ ጥምቀት፡, Maṣḥafa ṭǝmqat
- መጽሐፈ፡ ጥምቀት፡ ዘክርስትና፡, Maṣḥafa ṭǝmqat za-krǝstǝnnā
- መጽሐፈ፡ ክርስትና፡ ዘጥምቀት፡, Maṣḥafa krǝstǝnnā za-ṭǝmqat
- Coptic baptismal rite
Description
The Maṣḥafa krǝstǝnnā is the service book for the administration of the Sacraments of Christian Initiation. It includes the preparatory rites and the threefold sercive of baptism, chrism and Eucharist. Its structure is the same as of the baptismal book of the Coptic Church. It is sometimes grouped in manuscripts with . The short version agrees with the long version until the recitation of the Credo, then there are many prayers missing, however, the Psalms 61 and 113, 20-end are absent from the Latin translations. The ṣawātǝw prayers are less elaborated than in the Latin translations, here there are only the prayers "pro pace", "pro pontifice", "pro congregatione" and "pro Catechumenis".
Contributors
- Dorothea Reule, editor
- Alessandro Bausi, general editor
History
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