abrīm al-qibṭī, anbā. Abrīm authored a history of the world (see coptic-arabic literature) from the time of creation until the year A.H. 614/A.D. 1216. The only known manuscript of this work belonged to ‘abd al-masīḥ salib al-mas’ūdī, a Coptic priest of Cairo. It is cited by Paul Sbath in both of his manuscript catalogs (Sbath, 1938, 1939).
No Coptic bishop by the name of Abrīm is known. graf suggested that this name might refer to a certain Afrīm, or Ephrem, but this does not help to identify him. One possible identification is Anba Abrā’ām, bishop of nastarawayh, who was present both at the synod convened on 28 June 1240 under cyril iii Ibn Laqlaq, and at the ceremony of preparing the holy chrism held in A.M. 973/A.D. 1257 (Munier, 1943). In one manuscript, the name of this bishop is given as Abrām with only one alif (Sbath manuscript 1126; Sbath, 1934). jacob muyser (1944) has also suggested an equivalence between this Abrām and Abrīm.