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History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church of Alexandria

Severus of Al'Ashmunein (attributed); compiled by Mawhub ibn Mansur · 1088 · Oriental Orthodox · public-domain-translation

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4 gloss subjects · 2 doctrinal positions · 1 dispute link · 1 institution

The Coptic church's account of its own succession, one Life per patriarch from Mark onward - the only continuous narrative of the Alexandrian line, and the one that tells Chalcedon and the Arab conquest from the inside. Compiled in Arabic in the eleventh century from earlier Coptic and Greek lives, and traditionally ascribed to Severus of Al'Ashmunein; the compilation is now generally credited to Mawhub ibn Mansur of Alexandria, and the cited introduction sets out that case. ITS CHRONOLOGY IS ITS WEAKEST PART: it is a book of lives rather than a chronicle, and its dates are among the things editors correct rather than follow. Evetts' English translation in Patrologia Orientalis covers patriarchs 1 to 52, ending with Joseph (d. 849). NOT AN INDEPENDENT WITNESS FOR THE EARLY LIVES: the online preface says the early portions are "derived mainly from Eusebius and coptic tradition, and are of little value". Evetts translation is in FOUR parts, not three - part 4 carries patriarchs 47-52.