Butrus Ibn ‘Abd Al-Sayyid

• Main Author: Samir, Khalil
• Other Authors: Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988 (editor-in-chief)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Macmillan 1991
• Subjects: Butrus Ibn ‘Abd Al-Sayyid; Deacons; Ethiopia; Ethiopic language; Arabic language; Translators; Manuscripts; Fetḥa nagast; Nomocanon; Assal’; Deacon; sami
• Online Access: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cce,397

(CE:428b-429a) BUTRUS IBN ‘ABD AL-SAYYID, a deacon who may have lived in Ethiopia. His name is connected with the Fetha Nagast, the Ethiopian version of the Nomocanon of al-SAFÎ IBN AL-‘ASSAL. According to A. Dillmann and I. Guidi, Butrus ibn ‘Abd al-Sayyid translated the text from Arabic into Ge‘ez...