Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

History
كتاب التاريخ
(kitāb al-ta’rīkh, Book of history)
كتاب العنوان
(kitāb al-‘unwān, Book of the title)
تاريخ
(ta’rīkh, History)

Author:

Agapius of Mabbug

Period covered:

Creation-942?

Language:

Arabic

State of Preservation:

Partial

Genre:

Remarks:

The first part of this narrative chronicle runs from the Creation until the Incarnation. The end is missing: the second part stops abruptly in 780.

Edition - Translation:

L. Cheikho (1912) Agapius episcopus Mabbugensis: Historia universalis/Kitāb al-'unwān (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 65: Scriptores Arabici, 10). Paris.
B. Pirone (2013) Agapio di Gerapoli: Storia universale. Milano.
A.A. Vasiliev (1910) Kitab al-'unvan: Histoire universelle écrite par Agapius (Mahboub) de Menbidj. Première partie, Fasc.1 (Patrologia Orientalis, 5.4). Paris.
A.A. Vasiliev (1911) Kitab al-'unvan: Histoire universelle écrite par Agapius (Mahboub) de Menbidj. Seconde partie, Fasc. 1 (Patrologia Orientalis, 7.4). Paris: 457-591.
A.A. Vasiliev (1912) Kitab al-'unvan: Histoire universelle écrite par Agapius (Mahboub) de Menbidj. Seconde partie, Fasc. 2 (Patrologia Orientalis, 8.3). Paris: 399-550.
A.A. Vasiliev (1915) Kitab al-'unvan: Histoire universelle écrite par Agapius (Mahboub) de Menbidj. Première partie, Fasc. 2 (Patrologia Orientalis, 11.1). Paris: 7-144.

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