History of the Churches and Monasteries (of Egypt and Some Neighbouring Countries)
Taʾrīkh al-Kanāʾis wa-l-Adyira
· Abu al-Makarim Saʿdallah ibn Jirjis ibn Masʿud (long attributed to 'Abu Salih the Armenian'), d. 1208
· assembled 1177-1204
· other
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 standard English version is B. T. A. Evetts, The Churches and Monasteries of Egypt and Some Neighbouring Countries, Attributed to Abu Salih the Armenian (Oxford: Clarendon, 1895), reprinted 1969 — a complete rendering of the single Paris manuscript (BN arabe 307, dated 1338) only. HOLLIS returns the 1895 edition and its 1969 reprint: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Abu%20Salih%20Churches%20and%20Monasteries%20of%20Egypt%20Evetts&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 . The text as now known is larger: Samuel al-Suryani's Arabic edition (Cairo 1984-1985) adds the Munich and Egyptian manuscripts, and the CCE survey states that Evetts' translation was republished in 1969 while Samuel al-Suryani's new edition (1984) superseded his text (CE, 'Literature, Copto-Arabic', https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/1216). The author's own CCE entry (CE:23a-23b) describes that edition as appearing in five parts and notes that whole sections of the work — Nubia, Abyssinia, Africa, India, Yemen, Sinai, Jerusalem and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Antioch, Ephesus, Constantinople, Rome, Corinth — 'were omitted from the Paris manuscript', i.e. they are absent from the only complete English translation: https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/42 . The Wikipedia article on Abu al-Makarim further reports a Cairo 1992 English translation of volume 1 ('History of the Churches and Monasteries in Lower Egypt in the Thirteenth Century'), but that volume could not be located in HOLLIS (query returned 0 records), so it is recorded here as unverified: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Abu%20al%20Makarem%20History%20of%20the%20Churches%20and%20Monasteries%20in%20Lower%20Egypt&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 .
The indispensable topographical and historical survey of Egyptian churches and monasteries (province by province) in the late Fatimid period. Evetts' 1895 English is complete for the Paris manuscript but predates the fuller four-volume Arabic edition, so the additional material in the Munich and Egyptian manuscripts has no English. The e-text linked is Evetts' English (the Arabic text was printed separately, Oxford 1891). CCE entry on the author: https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/42 .
"East and West in the medieval eastern Mediterranean : Antioch from the Byzantine reconquest until the end of the Crusader principality." Leuven ; Dudley, Mass. : Uitgeverij Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, 2006-<2018>. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990101090790203941
Cite: Tergwame, “History of the Churches and Monasteries (of Egypt and Some Neighbouring Countries)”
(coptic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/copto-arabic-abu-al-makarim-tarikh-al-kanais