Background information
  from Drower


Various sections
of the Canonical Prayerbook

Copyists


BOOK OF SOULS  Prayers  1-31

  
MASIQTA  Prayers  32-72
 
The Letter ('ngirta)  Prayer 73
  
COLOPHON  #74
  
HYMNS OF PRAISE  Prayers 75-77
 
The Responses ('niania)  Prayers 78-103

The Rusma (Daily Ablution Prayers)--Prayer 104

ASIET MALKIA  Prayer 105
 
Rahmia (Daily Devotional Prayers)--Prayers 106-168

    
Colophon 169

   
Tab Taba Ltabia (the full Commemoration prayer forthe dead and living--Prayer  170

    
Hymns of Praise--Prayers 171-172

    
Sumhata (The Names)--Prayers 173-176

    
Little New Year's Feast Prayer--Prayer 177

    
Prayers for honoring the crown--Prayer 178

   
Hymns of marriage and a new priest (including the series Kt Azil Bhira Dakia--  Prayer 179-198

    
Colophon 199

   
Prayers 200-283

  
Colophon 284

    
Prayers 285-304

   
Coronation Prayers and hymns (including two for  myrtle)-- Prayers 305-328

     
Colophon 329

BANNER HYMNS  Prayers 330- 347

   
Blessed Oblation Prayers and Hymns--Prayers 348- 374

 
Blessings on the chief celebrant after Blessed Oblation--                     Prayers 375-381

   
Myrtle prayers and hymns--Prayers 382-385

    
Various prayers 386-409

    
Prayer of Yahia--Prayer 410

    
Odd hymns--411- 412
THE CANONICAL PRAYERBOOK
OF THE MANDAEANS
RAHMIA
Prayer  106

Prayers 107 - 108

Prayer 109

Prayers 110 - 112

Prayers 113 - 116

Prayer 117

Prayer 118


Prayers 119 - 124

Prayers 125 - 130

Prayers 131 - 136

Prayers 137 - 142

Prayers 143 - 148

Prayers 149 - 154

Prayers 155 - 160

Prayers 161 - 162

Prayers 163 - 164

Prayers 165 - 168
Prayers 143-148
THURSDAY
The following three hymns and three chants are for the fifth day of the week
# 143

In the name of the Great Life
Sublime Light be glorified.

In the glory of my Father I stand,
And with praise of the Being who is my Creator
In the glory of my Father I stand
And am upright in the House of Perfection.

At my voice the earth trembled;
At my radiance the heavens were shaken,
The seas dry up,
Flowing Streams fall into barren wastes.

Destroyed, rent asunder are fortresses
And earthly men of might are quelled.

Mountains, however lofty,
Like bridges are laid flat.

As for the wicked, who rise up against me,
There is a Being who will hew them down,
Not with my strength but in the strength of the mighty Life.

And Life is victorious and victorious the man
Who went hence.



# I44

By my pure radiance am I protected;
And the 'uthras, my brothers, are covered with light.

Throub·I1 the vigilance and praisegiving of the 'uthras,
My brothers, the glory of Life cometh and resteth upon me.



# I45

When the Mighty (Life) speaketh
In the Great Place, the House of Perfection
The Great and Mighty One transporteth (or createth)
Šilmai and Nidbai:

It transported Šilmai and Nidbai
And gave them to Nsab-Ziwa as his helpers.

When Nsab-Ziwa had reliance on the 'uthras,
The perfect beings whom They had sent down,
He spoke with his calm voice
And the chosen go out towards him
Towards him go out the chosen.

And he giveth them some of his glory
Some of his glory he bestoweth on them,
And the chosen on earth are confirmed
The elect righteous are confirmed
They rise up and behold the Place of Light.

Extolled is Life victorious,
And victorious is the man who went hence.



#146

I am preserved by my pure radiance
Like the Mighty One in His Glory.

My raiment shone forth in the House
And my prayer and praise rise upward to His Place



# I47
Miserable am I!

When shall I go (hence?)
(When wiill) my aching heart find relief?

My heart that aches (when wiill it) find relief?

And my soul, that they made an alien,
Find its vent?

In the place where they are much questioned
The glory of Life will rest on me.

And it will rest upon my priests and (those)
Whom the Seven persecute in this world.

(Yea) the Seven persecute sorely!

The worlds which persecute and wrong,
The Seven, they and their king,
Are bound for conflagmtions of fire.

(But) the good, the elect, the just
And the perfect rise
And behold the Place of Light.

Life is extolled, victorious,
And victorious is the man who went hence.


#148

"I am poor and submissive,
An elect righteous one.
Listen, hearken to my cry!”

"Thou, poor one, with thy children,
Thine offspring and thy priest,
Shalt rise and thou wilt behold
The Place of Light".

Background information
  from Drower


Various sections
of the Canonical Prayerbook

Copyists


BOOK OF SOULS  Prayers  1-31

  
MASIQTA  Prayers  32-72
 
The Letter ('ngirta)  Prayer 73
  
COLOPHON  #74
  
HYMNS OF PRAISE  Prayers 75-77
 
The Responses ('niania)  Prayers 78-103

The Rusma (Daily Ablution Prayers)--Prayer 104

ASIET MALKIA  Prayer 105
 
Rahmia (Daily Devotional Prayers)--Prayers 106-168

    
Colophon 169

   
Tab Taba Ltabia (the full Commemoration prayer forthe dead and living--Prayer  170

    
Hymns of Praise--Prayers 171-172

    
Sumhata (The Names)--Prayers 173-176

    
Little New Year's Feast Prayer--Prayer 177

    
Prayers for honoring the crown--Prayer 178

   
Hymns of marriage and a new priest (including the series Kt Azil Bhira Dakia--  Prayer 179-198

    
Colophon 199

   
Prayers 200-283

  
Colophon 284

    
Prayers 285-304

   
Coronation Prayers and hymns (including two for  myrtle)-- Prayers 305-328

     
Colophon 329

BANNER HYMNS  Prayers 330- 347

   
Blessed Oblation Prayers and Hymns--Prayers 348- 374

 
Blessings on the chief celebrant after Blessed Oblation--                     Prayers 375-381

   
Myrtle prayers and hymns--Prayers 382-385

    
Various prayers 386-409

    
Prayer of Yahia--Prayer 410

    
Odd hymns--411- 412