12.7.1 Introduction

Like in LXX (12.3), Ps 151:1–7 is a genuine part of the Coptic translation of the Psalms, and, in fact, it has just been taken over from Greek (I.10.4.2.1). Although the Psalter was and is the most used and widespread book of the Bible in the Coptic Church (I.10.4.2), the fragmentary manuscript transmission has left many gaps, and quite often the end of the book is missing. Although for all Coptic literary dialects manuscripts o…