Leurini Claudia (ed.). Hymns in Honour of the Hierarchy and Community, Installation Hymns and Hymns in Honour of Church Leaders and Patrons. Middle Persian and Parthian Hymns in the Turfan Collection

Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. — viii + 218 p. — (Berliner Turfantexte 40). — ISBN 978-2-503-57550-6.This volume presents texts in the Iranian languages, Middle Persian and Parthian, preserved in the Berlin Turfan Collection. These hymns are predominantly in Middle Persian. They were identified by M. Boyce in the registers of her Catalogue of the Iranian Manuscripts in Manichaean Scripts in the German Turfan Collection as Hymns in Honour of the Hierarchy and Installation Hymns, Hymns in Honour of Church Leaders and Patrons. Few of the fragments have been published, and mainly in editions dating back to the time of their discovery. New and updated readings, transliterations, translations into English, notes and commentaries are provided here for all the fragments identified by Boyce. The Introduction provides a description of the main features of the hymns to the Manichaean elect hierarchy, to the local hierarchies, and to the hierarchies of the Hearers, as well as of the installation hymns, and those in honour of high clerics and lay patrons. Reflections are provided on the use of cryptography in the Manichaean texts in Manichaean script, and about the learning habits inside scriptoria in Manichaean monasteries in Central Asia, the existence of which has long been suspected. The volume contains a complete glossary and bibliography, as well as facsimiles of joined fragments. This work may interest: Scholars and students of Manichaeism, of Iranian languages, literatures, and religions, of comparative religions, and of Central Asian history and cultures.Foreword
Introduction
The groups n. 73 and n. 75 in Mary Boyce' Catalogue
Group n. 73. In Honour of the Hierarchy and Community
Group n. 75. Installation Hymns, Hymns in honour of Church leaders and patrons
Hymns of uncertain attribution
Hymns non pertaining to the Church, Clerics and Patrons
Examples of Cryptography in the Middle Persian Manichaean Hymns
Cards and Scribbles
Hymns to the Church
Hymns to the Hierarchy
Hymns to the local hierarchies
Hymns to the Hearer's Hierarchy
Hymns to the Church
Hymns of Installation and in Honour of Clerics and Patrons
Installation of a Head of the Church
Hymns for the Installation of Teachers
Hymns for the Installation of a Bishop
Hymns for the Installation of the Presbyters
Hymns in praise of a Head of the Church
Hymns in Honour of a Teacher
Hymns to Uygur Rulers
Hymns of uncertain attribution
Hymns non pertaining to the Church, Clerics and Patrons
Glossary
Abbreviations
Literature
List of fragments
Plates