Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Documentum Nestorianum
ܦܣܘܩܐ ܕܡܘܕܥ ܥܠ ܫܖ̈ܒܐ ܕܠܝ̈ܚܐ ܘܓܕ̈ܫܐ ܚܘܝ̈ܚܐ ܘܫܓܘܫ̈ܝܐ ܘܥܝ̈ܛܐ ܕܗܘܘ ܒܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܥܪܒܐ
(pāsūqā d-mawde‘ ‘al šarbē d-līḥē w-ḡedšē ḥwīḥē wa-šgūšyē w-‘ayṭē de-hwāw b-'idtā b-ma‘rbā, Section that tells about the terrible events and deplorable accidents and perturbations and rages that happened in the Western Church)

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Period covered:

Constantine the Great-Nestorius and Cyril (ca. 305-444)

Language:

Syriac

State of Preservation:

Full

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Remarks:

This is a brief account of ecclesiastical history, written from a Nestorian point of view.

Edition - Translation:

E.W. Brooks, I. Guidi, J.-B. Chabot (1905) (ed.) Chronica minora. Volume Three (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 5: Scriptores Syri, 5). Paris - Leipzig: 371-378.
E.W. Brooks, I. Guidi, J.-B. Chabot (1907) (tr.) Chronica minora. Volume Three (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 6: Scriptores Syri, 6). Paris - Leipzig: 297-304.

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Bibliography:

M. Debié (2015) L'écriture de l'histoire en syriaque: Transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et Islam (Late antique history and religion, 12). Leuven - Paris - Bristol: 599.
E. Goeller (1901) 'Ein nestorianisches Bruchstück zur Kirchengeschichte der 4. und 5. Jahrhunderts'. Oriens Christianus 1: 80-97.