Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: the enigma of the sanctus
- PART I
- PART II
- 4 The sanctus in the East Syrian and Syro-Byzantine eucharistic prayers
- 5 The sanctus in the Egyptian and Western eucharistic prayers
- 6 The possible origins of the sanctus in the eucharistic prayer
- PART III
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of modern authors
- Index of eucharistic prayers and liturgical rites
5 - The sanctus in the Egyptian and Western eucharistic prayers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: the enigma of the sanctus
- PART I
- PART II
- 4 The sanctus in the East Syrian and Syro-Byzantine eucharistic prayers
- 5 The sanctus in the Egyptian and Western eucharistic prayers
- 6 The possible origins of the sanctus in the eucharistic prayer
- PART III
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of modern authors
- Index of eucharistic prayers and liturgical rites
Summary
THE EGYPTIAN TRADITION
the anaphoras of Egyptian Basil and St Gregory of Nazianzen bear witness to the Syro-Byzantine (or Cappadocian) influence in Egypt. However, the Greek anaphora of St Mark, its Coptic recension (St Cyril), together with various Greek and Coptic fragments and the anaphora in the collection attributed to Serapion of Thmuis, bear witness to a quite distinct indigenous Egyptian anaphoral pattern. In this pattern, characteristics include intercessions before the sanctus, an epiklesis before the institution narrative, and the use of 1 Corinthians 11:26 in the anamnesis (katangellete). Some of these distinct features may themselves be later changes to an earlier, quite distinct anaphoral pattern. The fragments include the Strasbourg Papyrus Gr. 254 (fourth to fifth century), the Deir Bala'izah papyrus (sixth to seventh century), a Coptic wooden tablet of the eighth century, the Manchester Papyrus (sixth century), the Louvain Coptic papyrus (no longer extant) and the Barcelona anaphora. The fragments suggest that this distinct pattern was found in Upper and Lower Egypt, and therefore to refer to the pattern as Alexandrine in an exclusive sense is inaccurate.
In his magisterial study, ‘L'Anaphore Alexandrine de Saint Marc’, R.-G. Coquin carefully examines the Greek and Coptic recensions, tracing their growth by comparing them with earlier fragments. However, the gradual evolution presupposed by Coquin has in recent years been called into question by a number of scholars working quite independently.
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- The Sanctus in the Eucharistic Prayer , pp. 83 - 103Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991