Anecdota Oxoniensia. Semitic series.

25Z CIHURCHES AND MONASTERIES OF EGYPT.

A monastery called Ibsidiya1 stands between Rifah2 and another
place 3.
There is a church named after Saint Sergius4, which is called Dair
Abu Makrufah, and lies to the east of Suyut.
Tunbudhz.
Tunbudha. Within and without this town there are [respectively]
a monastery and a church named after the saint and martyr Tarnimah;
and his pure body lies in the monastery.
There is a church named after the martyr Basmantah, which contains
his pure body.
There is a church named after the Saviour, who is our Lord Jesus
Christ, to whom be glory I
Various Churches and Monasteries.
Fol. 90 b The monastery of Aba Nub the martyr, which contains the bodies
of sixty-three monks who were martyred. It stands to the north of
the town of Al-Ushmunain. The monks were put to death by a black,
named Haffaz, in the caliphate of Al-Mustansir bi'llah, at the time of
the disturbances in Upper Egypt, during the patriarchate of Christodulus, the sixty-sixth in the succession, in the year 781 of the Righteous
Martyrs (A.D. Ic65-6). This monastery contains a keep, which is
a lofty structure.
M. Amrlineau, who notices this passage of Abu Salih, quotes a mention of
Ibsidiya in the Synaxariunz, in the account of St.Victor there, and says the place
must have been to the south of Usyut; see Ge'ogr. p. 202.
2 The churches and monasteries of Rifah, a little to the south of Usyft, are
mentioned by Al-Makrizi. The Coptic name of the place is epHKe. It still
exists, and had in 1885 a population of 4,11 9. See Amelineau, Geogr. p. I65.
3 The name is omitted in the MS.
4 This martyr, so celebrated in the Eastern churches, suffered in the persecution of Diocletian about the same time as his friend St. Bacchus. The Copts
keep the festival of St. Sergius on Babah Io=Oct. 7. See Synaxarzim at that
(lay; Eutychius, Annales, i. p. 412.