Yūḥannā ibn Sūrus, Yūḥannā ibn Sawirus, Al-kātib al-Miṣrī
Date of Birth: Unknown; end of the 11th or beginning of the 12th century
Place of Birth: Cairo
Date of Death: Unknown; perhaps the last decade of the 12th century
Place of Death: Cairo
Biography
The name of the author in MS Vat Arabic 117 is Yūḥannā ibn Sawirus (or Sūrus). In the MSS of Abū l-Barakāt’s Miṣbaḥ al-ẓulma, ch. 7, various forms are found: Sawirus or Sūrus, Sūrīs, Sawīrus, or…