Vita Sinuthii (Arabic version), ed. Samuel Moawad
· Anonymous (Arabic recension of the Life of Shenoute)
· Shenoute 348-466; the Arabic recension is medieval (the 2022 volume is its critical editi…
· hagiography
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
The Arabic recension was edited with a German translation by Samuel Moawad, Die arabische Version der Vita Sinuthii: kritische Edition mit annotierter Übersetzung, Wissenschaftliche Schriften der WWU Münster XII/36 (Hildesheim: Olms, 2022); the Harvard record's subject heading states explicitly 'Vita -- Translations into German' and the volume's languages are German/Arabic (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,arabische%20Version%20der%20Vita%20Sinuthii&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 English translations do exist of the Coptic Life of Shenoute (Besa), e.g. David N. Bell, The Life of Shenoute, Cistercian Publications, 1983 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Life%20of%20Shenoute%20Besa%20Bell&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 which is why the status is 'partial' and not 'none': the Arabic recension has never been translated into English.
English readers have the Coptic (Sahidic/Bohairic) Besa Life via Bell 1983, but the Arabic Vita Sinuthii — a substantially reworked medieval recension used in the Copto-Arabic synaxarial tradition — exists only in German. Advertise carefully: 'Arabic recension untranslated', not 'Life of Shenoute untranslated'.
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. Moawad's critical edition (Olms 2022, Wissenschaftliche Schriften der WWU Münster XII/36) is print: BnF record cb47226186g has no 856$u; the WWU repository miami.uni-muenster.de answers its search URL with a 'Bot-Check' interstitial (HTTP 200, 5,758 B), and no open-access PDF was located via OpenAlex. IA has the CSCO Sinuthii volumes (sinuthiiarchiman00shen etc., Leipoldt) but those are the Coptic text/ Latin translation, not this Arabic recension. DigiVatLib keyword searches for Sinuthii/Sinouthios/Shenouda/Schenoudi returned 0 rows. No scanned Arabic witness (Vatican, BnF, HMML) located. e-rara returns a 'Verifying your browser' wall (HTTP 200, 12,560 B); MDZ's search returns 'An error occurred while serving your page' for every query (HTTP 200, 27 KB shell); ONB's Primo search is a JS-only shell (4,788 B); loc.gov returns Cloudflare 429.
Harvard Hollis
Hollis query: "Life of Shenoute" — 3 record(s); match basis author_title.
Besa, Abbot of Athripe, active 5th century · 1983 · eng
Besa, Abbot of Athripe, active 5th century. "The life of Shenoute." Kalamazoo, Mich. : Cistercian Publications, 1983. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990010759050203941
Besa, Abbot of Athripe, active 5th century · 2012 · eng
Besa, Abbot of Athripe, active 5th century. "St. Shenoute of the white monastery." Le Caire : Société d'archéologie copte, 2012. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990138259450203941
Sandt, Huub van de, 1946-. "The Didache : its Jewish sources and its place in early Judaism and Christianity." Assen : Royal Van Gorcum ; Minneapolis : Fortress Press. 2002. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990088631540203941