Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Author:

Period covered:

Adam-Seleucus

Language:

Syriac

State of Preservation:

Fragmentary

Genre:

Remarks:

George is quoted as witness for the computation of the years between Adam and Seleucus, which according to him amounted to 5085.

Edition - Translation:

Fragments:

Bar Ebroyo, Chronicle, First part (Chronography) [Bedjan 1890: 37]
Michael the Great, Chronicle 5.4 [Chabot 1910: 74]
Dionysius of Tell Mahre, Chronicle, pr. = Michael the Syrian, Chronicle 10.20 [Chabot 1910: 378]

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Bibliography:

P. Bedjan (1890) (ed.) Gregorii Barhebræi Chronicon Syriacum e codd. mss. emendatum ac punctis vocalibus adnotationibusque locupletatum. Paris.
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.
F. Cumont (1915) 'L'ère byzantine et Théophile d'Édesse'. Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes 39: 260-263.