| Author | : J-F Coakley |
| Publisher | : Berliner Turfantexte |
| Release Date | : 30 June 2017 |
| ISBN 10 | : 9782503574714 |
| Pages | : 317 pages |
| Rating | : /5 ( users) |
The present volume offers an edition of the Syriac text, English translation and critical introduction to MIK III 45. The Syriac text is of the Penqita, the book later known as the ?udra, containing the variable parts of the daily offices and eucharist, to which have been appended some occasional services of the Church of the East, including the burial service. The 60 folios are the surviving part (about one quarter) of a manuscript datable to the eighth or ninth century and, on account of this dating, can be considered to be the earliest extant witness to the Penqita which was the project of the seventh-century patriarch Isho'yab III who drew up the outline for the ecclesiastical year that is still followed today in the Church of the East. The editors argue that MIK III 45 was probably written in Merv for transport to the Christian church in distant Turfan.