Life of Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria (Arabic version)
Vita Dioscori (Arabic version), ed. Samuel Moawad
· Anonymous (Copto-Arabic Life; Arabic recension)
· Dioscorus died 454; the Arabic Life belongs to the medieval Copto-Arabic tradition (the 2…
· hagiography
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
First edition of the Arabic Life: Samuel Moawad (ed./trans.), Die arabische Version der Vita Dioscori, Patrologia Orientalis 56/1, no. 246 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016), with a German translation; the Harvard record gives language Arabic/German and the publisher's blurb states the text is 'publiée pour la première fois dans sa version arabe en édition critique, avec une traduction allemande' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Vita%20Dioscori&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No English translation is recorded in the same catalogue under any variant title ('arabische Version der Vita Dioscori' returns only the Brepols volume: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Vita%20Dioscori%20arabische%20Version&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0
The only Life of Dioscorus I of Alexandria (d. 454, deposed at Chalcedon) published in a modern critical edition, and it is in German only. Important for Coptic self-representation of the Chalcedonian controversy. Copto-Arabic text, not Coptic.
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. The work exists in one modern critical edition and nothing else digitised: (1) BnF catalogue SRU (HTTP 200) returns two records for 'Die arabische Version der Vita Dioscori / Edition und Übersetzung von Samuel Moawad, 2016' — ark:/12148/cb45237221b and ark:/12148/cb45322058w — but Gallica returns HTTP 403 from this host and the volume is a Brepols Patrologia Orientalis 56/1 in copyright, so even the edition is a rights wall, not a scan. (2) Internet Archive holds the Patrologia Orientalis run only up to vol. 22 (1930): advancedsearch 'title:(patrologia orientalis)' -> 72 items, none later than the 1930s, so PO 56/1 (2016) is absent. (3) DigiVatLib title search 'dioscorus' -> Vat.lat.497, Vat.lat.498, Vat.lat.499, Vat.sir.559 (HTTP 200) — Latin/Syriac Dioscorus material, not the Arabic Life; no Borg.ar./Vat.ar. witness surfaced. (4) HMML search blocked (HTTP 403 Turnstile). No scan located, and the Arabic manuscript Moawad edited is not identified in any catalogue reachable from here; the practical route is a library copy of PO 56/1 and the manuscript siglum from its introduction.
Menze, Volker-Lorenz, 1974-. "Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria : the last pharaoh and ecclesiastical politics in the later Roman empire." Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2023]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99156862077903941
Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria (Arabic version)”
(coptic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/coptic-moawad-vita-dioscori-arabic