Late Antique Historiography

Ecclesiastical history

Title(s):
  • Ecclesiastical history
  • ܟܬܒܐ ܕܐܩܠܣܣܛܝܩܐ
    (ktābā d-’eqlesisṭiqā, book of ecclesiastical history)
  • ܬܫܥܝܬܐ ܡܕܡ ܥܕܬܢܝܬܐ
    (taš‘ītā medem ‘idtānāytā, Ecclesiastical history)
Author:
Period covered:
At least council of Chalcedon
Language:
Syriac
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Ecclesiastical history
Remarks:
From a note added by the copyist of ms. London, British Library, Additional 12154 at the end of Nestorius' letter to the people of Constantinople, we learn that the letter was reported also by Symeon in his work, within his account of the council of Chalcedon.
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Bibliography:
  • J.S. Assemani (1725) Bibliotheca Orientalis Clementino-Vaticana. Volume Three, Part One. Rome.
  • E.W. Brooks, F. Nau (1910) 'La lettre de Nestorius aux habitants de Constantinople'. Revue de l'Orient chrétien 15: 275-281.
  • 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: 617.
  • E.W. Brooks, F. Nau (1910) 'La lettre de Nestorius aux habitants de Constantinople'. Revue de l'Orient chrétien 15: 275-281.