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The anaphora of St Mark, the traditional Eucharistic prayer of the Alexandrian church, is one of the longest attested Christian prayers still in use. Its text is documented in five languages through dozens of manuscripts from the fourth century to the nineteenth, from Ethiopia, Nubia, Egypt, the Sinai, and Southern Italy, and every manuscript preserves a different text. Its complex textual tradition has prevented so far a comprehensive edition or study, but it also offers us a unique opportunity to observe a Christian prayer in its making and a ‘living text’ between orality and writing. In this paper I will present its sources, propose a digital solution to the editorial problem, and discuss the perspectives that can emerge from such a study.
Ágnes T. Mihálykó is a postdoc at IFIKK.