Liturgies, eastern and western : being the texts, original or translated, of the principal liturgies of the church / edited with introductions and appendices by F.E. Brightman on the basis of the former work by C.E. Hammond. Vol. 1. Eastern liturgies.

  • Hammond, C. E. (Charles Edward), 1837-1914.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Liturgies, eastern and western : being the texts, original or translated, of the principal liturgies of the church / edited with introductions and appendices by F.E. Brightman on the basis of the former work by C.E. Hammond. Vol. 1. Eastern liturgies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Again, a great many technical words are simply trans- literated. This seemed desirable for several reasons. The words are sometimes interesting in themselves : and besides this, while to attempt to render them by more or less closely corresponding and better known words belonging to other rites might sometimes be misleading, a literal transla- tion of them would be no more intelligible than a trans- literation. But what is more important, such transliterations illustrate the degree in which Greek has supplied the technical liturgical language of the Church, the words being very often themselves only transliterations of Greek. To this or to the principle underlying it I would venture to call the attention of those who, whether with authority or without it, undertake to translate the English Prayer Book into foreign languages. In the Glossary I have added to the words explained or commented on such corresponding words in the several liturgical languages as I have been able to meet with. Ecclesiastical terms are not always to be found in lexicons and are a frequent source of difficulty. It has seemed worth while therefore to print even so amateur a collection as the present. My obligations to Mr. A. J. Butler’s Ancient Coptic Churches of Egypt will be obvious. My transliterations throughout need apology: I make no doubt they are often inaccurate, as they are certainly inconsistent: but I hope they are intelligible enough to serve their purpose1 * *. It will be obvious that the lists of editions and of manu- scripts in the Introduction make no pretence to exhaustive- ness. The lists of editions are not meant to be bibliographies, but references to authoritative sources or available texts, with such account of their origin as I have been able to gather; while as to the manuscripts, I have only noted those which 1 In the transliterations of syriac the Jacobite zekofo is throughout repre- sented by o, the Nestorian by a ; and in Nestorian rubrics the present Nestorian pronunciation has been aimed at generall}7.