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The String of Jewels (Annals)

Naẓm al-Jawhar (Latin: Contextio Gemmarum; Eutychii Annales) · Saʿid ibn al-Bitriq (Eutychius), Melkite Patriarch of Alexandria, 877-940 · compiled before 940 (dedicated to his brother; reaches 934-940) · chronicle

Coptic · domain: copto-arabic · researched 2026-11-13

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

No English translation of the Annals exists. HOLLIS query 'Eutychii Annales' returns nine records: Edward Pococke's Arabic text with Latin translation (Oxford 1654-1656, 1658, 1659) and the Cheikho Arabic edition (Beirut 1906) — all Latin or Arabic, none English: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Eutychii%20Annales&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 . The query 'Eutychius Annals English translation' returns 0 records: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Eutychius%20Annals%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 . The Arabic text is digitised as CSCO 50-51 (Cheikho - Carra de Vaux - Zayyat, Eutychii Patriarchae Alexandrini Annales, Beirut/Paris 1906-1909), item CheikhoEutychiiPatriarchaeAlexandriniAnnalesPart1 on archive.org, whose description identifies it as the Arabic text of the 'Antiochian' recension and notes that the shorter 'Alexandrian' recension was edited by Michel Breydy: https://archive.org/details/CheikhoEutychiiPatriarchaeAlexandriniAnnalesPart1 .

The first Arabic universal chronicle written by an Egyptian Christian and a key source for pre-Islamic Persia and for the Melkite patriarchate; also the base text that al-Makin and later Coptic chroniclers quarried. English readers have had to work from Pococke's Latin (as reprinted in later Patrologia editions) or from excerpts in secondary literature. CCE entry for the related Latin compilation: https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/cce/id/472 .

Existing translations recorded

Edition / series
Contextio Gemmarum, sive Eutychii Patriarchae Alexandrini Annales (Arabic text with Latin translation) · Edward Pococke · 1659

Electronic text

Source and licence
archive.org · PDF scan · unknown
CheikhoEutychiiPatriarchaeAlexandriniAnnalesPart1

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: "The String of Jewels" — 1 record(s); match basis title_only.

RecordCitation
Bod kyi snga rabs dam pa rnams kyi gsungs chos phyag bris ma rin chen gser phreng / Zang chuan fo jiao gao seng hong fa shou ji zhen dian / zhubian, Zhouta, Gamadelai ; Baici Zang wen gu ji yan jiu shi zheng li
· 2015- · tib
"Bod kyi snga rabs dam pa rnams kyi gsungs chos phyag bris ma rin chen gser phreng / Zang chuan fo jiao gao seng hong fa shou ji zhen dian / zhubian, Zhouta, Gamadelai ; Baici Zang wen gu ji yan jiu shi zheng li." Lanzhou : Kan-suʼu Rig-gnas Dpe-skrun Khang, 2015-. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990150…

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “The String of Jewels (Annals)” (coptic gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/copto-arabic-eutychius-nazm-al-jawhar