Alexandrian patriarchal history

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The Alexandrian Patriarchal History is the Liber Pontificalis of the Patriarchate of Alexandria of the Copts .

The oldest Arabic version was compiled in the 11th century by the Alexandrian lay Christian Mawhūb ibn Mansūr ibn Mufarrij, so far not, as widely assumed, by Sawirus ibn al-Muqaffa ' . For the first 65 pontificate Mawhūb used various historiographical and hagiographical writings in the Coptic language , including the work of an archdeacon Georgios over the period 450–700, which was officially commissioned by the church at the end of the 7th century. Mawhūb's original Arabic works are his biographies of the patriarchs Christodoulos (1036-1077) and Kyrillos II (1078-1092). Various successors continued the "Alexandrian Patriarchal History" into modern times.

expenditure

  • BTA Evetts: History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church of Alexandria = Patrologia Orientalis 1. May 10 (Paris 1904-1915);
  • CF Seybold: Severus ibn al Muqaffa '. Alexandrian patriarchal history from S. Marcus to Michael I (61–767), based on the oldest Hamburg manuscript written in 1266 and published in Arabic Urtext (Hamburg 1912);
  • CF Seybold: Severus Bn al-Muqaffa 'Historia Patriarcharum Alexandrininorum = CSCO arab. III 9 (Beyrouth - Paris 1904-1910);
  • AS Atiya, Y. 'Abd al-Masîh, OHE KHS Burmester, A. Khater: History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church (Le Caire 1943–1974).

Literature -

  • Johannes Den Heijer: Ibn Mansūr Ibn Mufarriğ (XIe s.) Et la rédaction du texte arabe de l'Histoire des Patriarches d'Alexandrie (CSCO 513 / Subs. 81). Lovanii 1989.