Nomocanon of Faraj Allah al-Akhmini

Majmaʿ qawānīn (dated 1357 CE in the manuscript) · Faraj Allāh al-Akhmīmī · 1357 (date of the manuscript, per the editor's title) · canon law

Coptic · domain: documentary · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS returns 3 records, all Arabic editions and studies by Buṭrus al-Barmūsī of parts 1–2 of the manuscript (2022 and 2025), e.g. 'Makhṭūṭ Majmaʿ qawānīn li-Faraj Allāh al-Akhmīmī al-mudawwan fī 1357 M' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Nomocanon%20Faraj%20Allah&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 HOLLIS 'Faraj Allah nomocanon English' returns only that Arabic volume (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Faraj%20Allah%20nomocanon%20English&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English translation located; the work is not in the standard English translation series.

A 14th-century Copto-Arabic nomocanon (in two or more parts, covering fasts, marriage and divorce among other topics) that survives in a manuscript dated 1357. It is currently being edited in Arabic in an Alexandria doctoral project; no European-language translation of the whole exists, and English coverage is nil. No Coptic e-text.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: no scan located. Checks run, all negative: (1) Internet Archive advancedsearch for title 'مجمع/مجموع قوانين' and 'nomocanon'/'qawanin' in Arabic, English and transliteration -> no Copto-Arabic nomocanon; the only 'nomocanon' hits are Photius/Balsamon and modern Urdu/Pashto law compilations. (2) BnF catalogue SRU (https://catalogue.bnf.fr/api/SRU, HTTP 200): all 459 records with bib.language all cop were paged and title-filtered for nomocanon/qawanin/rituel/liturgie — no record for Faraj Allāh. (3) DigiVatLib MSS title/keyword searches ('nomocanon' via k_f=3 and k_f=0) -> 0 rows (HTTP 200). (4) HMML vHMML Reading Room: browsing works (https://www.vhmml.org/readingRoom -> 200) but any search POST/GET returns HTTP 403 'Turnstile validation failed' (Cloudflare), so the Coptic/Egyptian collections could not be queried at all. Nothing found, therefore no-scan-located rather than a guess. Next practical step: the source manuscript's shelfmark should be recoverable from the introduction of Buṭrus al-Barmūsī's Arabic edition (2022/2025); the 1357 colophon manuscript itself is not, as far as these searches show, digitised anywhere reachable.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Faraj Allāh al-Akhmīmī — 3 record(s); match basis author_only.

Record	Citation
Dirāsah wa-nashr al-juzʼ al-awwal min makhṭūṭ Majmaʻ qawānīn li-Faraj Allāh al-Akhmīmī al-mudawwan fī 1357 M : dirāsat al-aṣwām namūdhajan = A study and publication of the first part of the manuscript of the nomocanon of Faraj Allah Al-Akhmimi, written in 1357 AD : the study of the fasts as a model Baramūsī, Buṭrus · 2022 · ara	Baramūsī, Buṭrus. "Dirāsah wa-nashr al-juzʼ al-awwal min makhṭūṭ Majmaʻ qawānīn li-Faraj Allāh al-Akhmīmī al-mudawwan fī 1357 M : dirāsat al-aṣwām namūdhajan = A study and publication of the first part of the manuscript of the nomocanon of Faraj Allah Al-Akhmimi, written in 1357 AD : the study of the fasts as a mod…
Makhṭūṭ Majmaʻ qawānīn li-Faraj Allāh al-Akhmīmī al-mudawwan fī 1357 M : dirāsat wa-nashr al-juzʼ al-thānī, dirāsat sharāʼiʻ al-zawāj wa-al-ṭalāq namudhajan = The Nomocanon of Faraj Allah Al-Akhmimi, written in 1357 AD : a study and publication of the second part of the manuscript, A Study of the canons of marriage and divorce as a model Baramūsī, Buṭrus · -<2025> · ara	Baramūsī, Buṭrus. "Makhṭūṭ Majmaʻ qawānīn li-Faraj Allāh al-Akhmīmī al-mudawwan fī 1357 M : dirāsat wa-nashr al-juzʼ al-thānī, dirāsat sharāʼiʻ al-zawāj wa-al-ṭalāq namudhajan = The Nomocanon of Faraj Allah Al-Akhmimi, written in 1357 AD : a study and publication of the second part of the manuscript, A Study of the…
Dirāsah wa-nashr al-juzʼ al-awwal min Makhṭūṭ majmaʻ qawānīn li-Faraj Allāh al-Akhmīmī al-mudawwan fī 1357 M : dirāsāt al-aṣwām namūdhajan Barmūsī, Buṭrus · 2022 · ara	Barmūsī, Buṭrus. "Dirāsah wa-nashr al-juzʼ al-awwal min Makhṭūṭ majmaʻ qawānīn li-Faraj Allāh al-Akhmīmī al-mudawwan fī 1357 M : dirāsāt al-aṣwām namūdhajan." [al-Qāhirah] : Buṭrus al-Barmūsī, 2022. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99162013258703941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Nomocanon of Faraj Allah al-Akhmini” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-faraj-allah-nomocanon