‘abd al-masīḥ. A manuscript of the Coptic Patriarchate, Cairo (Theology 290; Graf, no. 533; Simaykah, no. 333) contains a collection of 149 poems in simple literary Arabic on moral and religious subjects, composed by Anbā Bistawrah, known as al-Ḥarīrī (Graf, 1934, Vol. 4, p. 133) [see also bisurah al-ḥarīrī]. It was copied by ibrāhīm ibn sulaymān al-najjār al-mīrī in March 1709 for the mu‘allim ‘Awaḍ al-Maḥallawī, and was offered to the hegumenos ‘Abd al-Masīḥ.
He may be the same hegumenos (priest) who, during the reign of the 103rd patriarch, john xvi (yu’annis) (1676–1718), and in his patriarchal residence, copied a liturgical manuscript (Coptic Patriarchate, Cairo, Liturgy 15; Simaykah, no. 815; not in Graf) containing a lectionary in Coptic for the Sundays of the first six months of the year. This manuscript was restored in March 1715.