Sacramentary (Bishop Sarapion's Prayer-Book)

Euchologion

Written about 350, probably in Thmuis (now Tell Timai, Egypt). The date is disputed or rests on weak evidence.

Most scholars say that Serapion of Thmuis wrote it. Some doubt it.

Thirty prayers for the eucharist, baptism, ordination and burial; two carry the name of Serapion.

Liturgy · first written in Greek

English by John Wordsworth (1899); the corpus file is a scan with errors and has the prayers only. His name is on the first prayer and on prayers 15 to 18 only, and it is doubtful that this shows who wrote the book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramentary_of_Serapion_of_Thmuis). B. Botte doubted that he wrote it (from memory, not checked: Oriens Christianus 48, 1964). M. E. Johnson, The Prayers of Sarapion of Thmuis (1995), keeps his name for it.

Not yet on the site. An English translation of this work exists, but we are not yet sure that it is in the public domain, or its text is not yet made ready. So it is not shown.

How we know the date and place

Date written not sure: J. Wordsworth, Bishop Sarapion's Prayer-Book (1899), introduction: about 350, in his time as bishop; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapion_of_Thmuis doubts that he wrote all of it
Place written probable: The prayers keep the use of the church of Thmuis (J. Wordsworth 1899; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapion_of_Thmuis); site: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727249