Late Antique Historiography

History

Title(s):
  • History
Author:
Period covered:
Late 4th c./early 5th c. (time of Cyril of Alexandria?) - 715
Language:
Coptic
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Ecclesiastical history
  • Biography (collective)
Remarks:
George the archdeacon’s lost History is the main source of the Lives 27-42 of the Arabic History of the patriarchs of Alexandria by Mawhub ibn Mansur ibn Mufarrij.
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • Mawhub ibn Mansur ibn Mufarrij, History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria [Evetts 1910: 90-91; Evetts 1915: 359-360]
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • A.J. Butler (1978) The Arab conquest of Egypt and the last thirty years of the Roman dominion. Oxford.
  • R.G. Coquin (1975) Livre de la consécration de Benjamin (Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale: Bibliothèque d'études coptes, 13). Cairo.
  • J. Den Heijer (1989) Mawhūb ibn Manṣūr ibn Mufarrij et l'historiographie copto-arabe: Études sur la composition de l'Histoire des patriarches d’Alexandrie (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 513: Subsidia, 83). Leuven: 7; 121-124; 142-143.
  • B.T.A. Evetts (1910) History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church of Alexandria: Agathon to Michael I (Patrologia Orientalis, 5.1). Paris.
  • B.T.A. Evetts (1915) History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church of Alexandria: Mennas I to Joseph (Patrologia Orientalis, 10.5). Paris.
  • D.W. Johnson (1974) Coptic sources of the Arabic History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria. Diss. The Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.
  • D.W. Johnson (1977) 'Further remarks on the Arabic History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria'. Oriens Christianus 61: 103-116.
  • J. Maspero (1923) Histoire des Patriarches d'Alexandrie depuis la mort de l'empereur Anastase jusqu'à la réconciliation des Églises jacobites (518-616) (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études, Sciences historiques et philologiques 273). Paris.
  • M.N. Swanson (2009) 'George the Archdeacon'. In: Christian-Muslim relations: A bibliographical history. Volume One: 600-900, ed. D. Thomas - B. Roggema (The history of Christian-Muslim relations, 11). Leiden - Boston: 234-238.