al-Jawhara al-nafīsa fī ʿulūm al-kanīsa
· Yūḥannā ibn Abī Zakarīyā ibn Sabbāʿ (13th century)
· 13th century
· treatise
Coptic · domain: liturgy · researched 2026-11-13
partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.
Why this is in the register
HOLLIS Primo 'Ibn Sabba' returns the Fordham 2022 volume, whose record explicitly notes 'Container of (expression): Ibn Sabbāʿ, Yūḥannā ibn Abī Zakarīyā ... Jawharah al-nafīsah fī ʿulūm al-kanīsah. English. (Mikhail). 2022' and whose description states that it offers 'an English translation of excerpts from three key texts' - https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/alma99156572870203941. No complete English translation was located, and no French or German translation was found in HOLLIS. The work has no separate entry in the Coptic Encyclopedia.
A comprehensive manual of the church's sciences (scripture, liturgy, sacraments, feasts, canon law). The English excerpts concern the eucharistic liturgy only.
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: open scan — 1 candidate(s). Best available full text of the work, but the shipped text layer is worthless (title page only) and the 1966 imprint means reuse is a rights decision. The text is a modern Arabic edition by Victor Mansour; the IA uploader gives no provenance beyond coptic-treasures.com watermarks.
Metadata 200 (title as above; description 'شرح علوم الكنيسة لابن السباع'); _page_numbers.json gives 404 pages; PDF 14,061,345 B. The _djvu.txt (12,782 chars) contains only the cover/preface in reversed Arabic presentati…
"Guides to the Eucharist in Medieval Egypt : three Arabic commentaries on the Coptic liturgy : Yūḥannā ibn Sabbāʻ, Abū al-Barakāt ibn Kabar, and Pope Gabriel V." New York : Fordham University Press, 2022. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99156572870203941
Ibn Sabbāʻ, Yūḥannā ibn Abī Zakarīyā, active 13th century · 1922 · fre, ara
Ibn Sabbāʻ, Yūḥannā ibn Abī Zakarīyā, active 13th century. "La perle précieuse : traitant des sciences ecclésiastiques (chapitres I-LVI)." Paris : Firmin-Didot, 1922. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990117911760203941
Zakhary, Milad Sidky. "De la Trinité à la Trinité : la christologie liturgique d'Ibn Sabbāʻ, auteur copte du XIIIe siècle." Roma : Edizioni liturgiche, c2007. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990117579970203941
Cite: Tergwame, “The Precious Jewel, on the Sciences of the Church”
(coptic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-ibn-sabba-jawhara