Firdaws al-naʻīm

HMML ID
537261447554
PURL
https://w3id.org/haf/work/537261447554
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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