Firdaws al-naʻīm
- HMML ID
- 537261447554
- PURL
- LC access point
- Firdaws al-naʻīm
- HMML native script
- فردوس النعيم
Variants
- 40 monk stories
- 40 Mönchsgeschichten
- al-Arbaʻūn khabar allatī lil-ābāʼ al-ruhbān bi-Wādī Ḥubayb wa-ghayrihi
- Forty monk stories
Work information
- Title
- Firdaws al-naʻīm
- Original languages
Versions
- Expression
- Firdaws al-naʻīm. Arabic
- Language
- Arabic
- Title
- Firdaws al-naʻīm
- HMML native script
- فردوس النعيم
General notes
- Description
- The original Coptic is lost, so we have used an Arabic title.
- Description
- "40 Mönchsgeschichten" (40 monk stories). He suggests that the original Coptic version of the work originated in the 7th or 8th century.
- Citations
- Georg Graf, Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur, vol. 1, Die Übersetzungen (Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1944), 385.
- Description
- The title for the Arabic version comes from another copy of the text found in Paris ar. 279. Paris ar. 278 and Paris ar. 280 call it al-Arbaʻūn khabar allatī lil-ābāʼ al-ruhbān bi-Wādī Ḥubayb wa-ghayrihi.
- Citations
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 279, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b11004215p/f8.item.
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 278, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b11004677k/f5.item.
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Arabe 280, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b11004339p/f5.item.
- Citations
- USJ 01321, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, accessed January 24, 2024, https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/129320.
Preferred citation
"Firdaws al-naʻīm." HMML Authority File. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Last modified January 24, 2024. https://w3id.org/haf/work/537261447554
Change notes
- Date added
- 2024-01-24
- Last edited
- 2024-01-24
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