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 pre-Islamic half is being edited with facing English: Martino Diez (ed./trans.), al-Makin Girgis ibn al-Amid, Universal History. The Vulgate Recension. Part 1, Section 1: From Adam to the End of the Achaemenids, Arabic Christianity Texts and Studies 6-1 (Leiden: Brill, 2023/2024); Section 2 is announced as forthcoming — so as of now only Part 1 §1 is in English. The Islamic half has never had a modern English translation: Erpenius printed the Arabic with a Latin version (Historia Saracenica, Leiden 1625, ending at 1118), which Samuel Purchas rendered in abridged English ('The Saracenical Historie... written in Arabike by George Elmacin', Purchas his Pilgrimage, 4th ed., London 1626, pp. 1009-1047), and Pierre Vattier made a French version (Paris 1657); Graf II 350-351 records exactly these and no English of the full text: https://archive.org/details/GGrafGeschichte . The 2025 Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia update by Martino Diez states the same: Part 1 'is currently being edited with parallel English translation. A first volume ... was published in 2023, and a second volume ... is in the making', while the Islamic part exists in Cahen's edition and Eddé/Micheau's French translation only: https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/2195 . HOLLIS query returns the Brill volume (2024-), language eng: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Universal%20History%20Vulgate%20Recension%20Makin%20Diez&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 .
The most important Copto-Arabic universal chronicle and a major source for Ayyubid history; Ibn Khaldun quotes it more than 70 times. The e-text linked here is the 1625 Erpenius print of the Arabic text with Latin translation (Islamic section, to 1118), not a modern edition. Diez's 2025 CCE update also establishes the correct title (Kitāb al-Taʾrīkh) and the probable death year (1292/93 rather than 1273).
"The book of history : a history of all nations from the earliest times to the present, with over 8,000 illustrations." New York, The Grolier Society, [1914?-1921]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990082259850203941
"The book of history. : A history of all nations from the earliest times to the present, with over 8,000 illustrations." New York : The Grolier society; London : The Educational book co., [1915?-21]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99159487541103941
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 · 1844, c1832 · eng
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860. "The second book of history : including the modern history of Europe, Africa, and Asia ... : designed as a sequel to the First book of history." Boston : Jenks & Palmer, 1844, c1832. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990032939420203941
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 · 1839 · eng
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860. "The second book of history : including the modern history of Europe, Africa, and Asia ... : designed as a sequel to the "First book of history"." Boston : Charles J. Hendee, and Jenks and Palmer, 1839. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990032936840203941
Cite: Tergwame, “Book of History ('The Blessed Compendium')”
(coptic gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/copto-arabic-al-makin-kitab-al-tarikh