The Ancient Coptic Churches of Egypt volume 2
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A pair at the church 1 Eastern Church: Gen. Introd. , vol. I. P. 307.
CH. Iv. ] Ecclesiastical Vestments.
167 of Abu Kir wa Yuhanna are made of crimson velvet, richly embroidered with stars and crosses wrought in massive thread of silver. Round either end runs a double border enclosing designs, and while one sleeve is ornamented with a representation of the Virgin Mary and her Son, the other has a figure of an angel with outspread wings. Nothing can exceed the fineness of the needlework and the... delicacy of the colours in which these figures are embroidered. The extreme richness of the work denotes that this Fig. 27. Armlets at the Church of Abu Kir.
pair of sleeves belonged to a bishop, doubtless the bishop of Babylon : indeed I believe that the mere presence of figures, as opposed to crosses, is dis- tinctive of the sleeves as an episcopal ornament. The Greek epimanikia, as belonging to the two orders bishops and priests, are apparently not dis- tinguished in the same manner. Like the dalmatic and other vestments of the Church of Alexandria, the Coptic armlets were in bygone times not merely made of the richest materials, and decked with the most costly embroideries, but they were also em- 1 68 Ancient Coptic Churches.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A pair at the church 1 Eastern Church: Gen. Introd. , vol. I. P. 307.
CH. Iv. ] Ecclesiastical Vestments.
167 of Abu Kir wa Yuhanna are made of crimson velvet, richly embroidered with stars and crosses wrought in massive thread of silver. Round either end runs a double border enclosing designs, and while one sleeve is ornamented with a representation of the Virgin Mary and her Son, the other has a figure of an angel with outspread wings. Nothing can exceed the fineness of the needlework and the... delicacy of the colours in which these figures are embroidered. The extreme richness of the work denotes that this Fig. 27. Armlets at the Church of Abu Kir.
pair of sleeves belonged to a bishop, doubtless the bishop of Babylon : indeed I believe that the mere presence of figures, as opposed to crosses, is dis- tinctive of the sleeves as an episcopal ornament. The Greek epimanikia, as belonging to the two orders bishops and priests, are apparently not dis- tinguished in the same manner. Like the dalmatic and other vestments of the Church of Alexandria, the Coptic armlets were in bygone times not merely made of the richest materials, and decked with the most costly embroideries, but they were also em- 1 68 Ancient Coptic Churches.
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