Testament of Our Lord

Testamentum dominus noster

Standard abbreviation: Test. Lord

Other titles: Testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ to His Disciple Peter, Testament of Our Lord on the Invasions of the Mongols, Arabic Testament of Our Lord

Clavis numbers: ECCA 840

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Category: Apocalypses

Related literature: Book of the Rolls

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Created January 2021

1. SUMMARY

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2. RESOURCES

3. BIBLIOGRAPHY

3.1 Manuscripts and Editions

3.1.1 Arabic

3.1.1.1 Garšūnī script

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Syr. 232, fols. 184r–195v (17th cent.)

Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. sir. 220, fols. 5v–12v (18th cent.)

online-bulletGraf, Georg. Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur. 5 vols. Rome: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1944 (manuscripts discussed, vol. 1, p. 292).

Ziadé, J. “Un testament de Notre-Seigneur concernant les invasions des Mongols.” ROC 21 (1918–1919): 261–73, 433–44 (edition and French translation of Paris Syr. 232).

3.2 Modern Translations

3.2.1 French

Ziadé, J. “Un testament de Notre-Seigneur concernant les invasions des Mongols.” ROC 21 (1918–1919): 261–73, 433–44 (edition and French translation of Paris Syr. 232).

3.3 General Works

Dib, S. “Note sur deux ouvrages apocryphes arabes intitulés ‘Testament de Notre-Seigneur.’” ROC 11 (1906): 427–30.

Kruk, Remke. “History and apocalypse. Ibn al-Nafîs’s justi„…cation of Mamluk rule.” Der Islam 72 (1995): 324–37 (pp. 330–31).

Lent, Jos van. “Coptic Apocalyptic Writings from the Islamic Period.” Ph.D. diss., Leiden University, forthcoming.

__________. “The nineteen Muslim kings in Coptic apocalypses.” ParOr 25 (2000): 643–93 (p. 670).

__________. “Testament of our Lord (on the Invasions of the Mongols).” Pages 743–49 in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History. Vol. 4: 1200–1350. Edited by D. Thomas and A. Mallett. History of Christian Muslim Relations 17. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012.

Suermann, H. “Koptische arabische Apocalypsen.” Pages 25–44 in Studies on the Christian Arabic Heritage. Edited by Rifaat Y. Ebied, Khalil Samir, and Herman G. B. Teule. Leuven: Peeters, 2004 (p. 31).

Troupeau, Gérard. “De quelques apocalypses conservées dans les manuscrits arabes de Paris.” ParOr 18 (1993): 75–87 (p. 79).