Alfred Joshua Butler Ancient Coptic Churches of Egypt

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. T lie difiiculties, t/ien, bot/i p/iysical and moral, w/iic/i face t/ie enquirer are rat/ier exceptional; but tliey are suc/i as tact and patience will mitigate, if not conquer. 1 liave briefly indicated in tke text liow muck remains to be done in Upper Egypt in Me way of exploring and describing t/ie early C/iristian c/curc/ies t/iere and flu very incompleteness of t/iis work proves liow muc/i is still lacking to an adequate treatise on Coptic rites and ceremonies. Nor is t/iere less scope for tbc kistorian Man for Me antiquarian and Me ecclesiologist for Me liistory of C liristian Egypt is still unwritten, or at least t/iat part of it about wkick t/ie most romantic interest gat/iers, t/ie.