Late Antique Historiography

Chronicle

Title(s):
  • Chronicle
  • Πασχουάλια
    (Paschoualia, Easter tables)
Author:
Period covered:
Adam-year 10 of Constantine (315), with a computation of years until 412
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Chronicle (chronica)
  • Chronicle (chronography)
  • Easter table
Remarks:
Annianus was one of the early critics of Eusebius and the most influential one: he is widely attested in Syriac chronography and it is likely that his corrections shaped Greek and Syriac chronography, be it through many intermediaries.
Edition - Translation:
  • P. Van Nuffelen, L. Van Hoof (forthcoming) The fragmentary Greek chronicles after Eusebius: Edition, translation and commentary. Cambridge.
Fragments:
  • George Syncellus, Chronography [Mosshammer 1984: 32.29-34.2, 34.10-37.15, 381.5-382.4]
  • Jacob of Edessa, Letter to John the Stylite [Nau 1900: 584-585, 590-591]
  • Elias of Nisibis, Chronicle [Brooks 1910 (ed.): 14.12-15.3, 16.9-17.16, 26.10-29.10, 99.12-17, 99.22-26, 128-129.18]
  • Bar Ebroyo, Chronicle, First part (Chronography) [Bedjan 1890: 14, 15, 25, 16, 17, 36, 37]
  • Michael the Great, Chronicle, preface, 1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 2.2, 3.2, 3.8, 4.6, 4.10, 5.4 [Chabot 1910: 1, 2, 4, 8, 19, 25-26, 33, 37, 74]
  • Al-Biruni, The chronology of ancient nations [Sachau 1878-1879.i: 21, 19-22,2; ii: 25, 24-31]
  • Anonymous, Chronicle of 1234 [Chabot 1937: 26.11-27.13T = 17.11-18.8V]
  • Abū Ma‘šar, Kitāb al-Milal wa-d-duwal al-Qirānāt [Yamamoto-Burnett 2000, 22]
  • Bar Ebroyo History of the Dynasties [Sālḥanī (1890): 15, 36-37, 42]
Users:
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • (1979) Clavis patrum Graecorum (CPG) 5537
  • P. Bedjan (1890) (ed.) Gregorii Barhebræi Chronicon Syriacum e codd. mss. emendatum ac punctis vocalibus adnotationibusque locupletatum. Paris.
  • E.W. Brooks (1910) (ed.-tr.) Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni opus chronologicum. Volume One (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 62-63: Scriptores Syri, 21-64). Paris - Leipzig.
  • P.I. Bruns, J.P. Kirsch (1879) Bar-Hebraei chronicon syriacum. Leipzig.
  • J.-B. Chabot (1937) Anonymi auctoris Chronicon ad annum Christi 1234: Praemissum est Chronicon anonymum ad A.D. 819 pertinens. Volume One (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 81: Scriptores Syri, 36). Leuven.
  • J.-B. Chabot (1899) (tr.) Chronique de Michel le Syrien, patriarche jacobite d'Antioche (1166-1199). Volume One. Paris.
  • J.-B. Chabot (1910) (ed.) Chronique de Michel le Syrien, patriarche jacobite d'Antioche (1166-1199). Volume Four. Paris.
  • H. Gelzer (1885) Sextus Julius Africanus und die Byzantinische Chronographie. Leipzig.
  • A. Hilkens (2018) The anonymous Syriac Chronicle of 1234 and its sources (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, 272). Leuven: 137-144.
  • A.A. Mosshammer (2008) The Easter computus and the origins of the Christian era (Oxford early Christian studies). Oxford.
  • A.A. Mosshammer (1984) Georgii Syncellii Ecloga chronographica (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Leipzig.
  • A. Nau (1900) 'Lettre de Jacques d'Édesse à Jean le Stylite sur la chronologie biblique et la date de la naissance du Messie'. Revue de l'Orient chrétien 5: 581-596.
  • E. Sachau (1878-1879) Al-Biruni: The chronology of ancient nations. London
  • K. Yamamoto, C. Burnett (2000) Abū Ma‘šar on historical chronology: The book of religions and dynasties (On the great conjunctions). Volume one: The Arabic original. Leiden - Boston - Cologne.