Late Antique Historiography

Chronicle of 846

Title(s):
  • Chronicle of 846
  • Chronicon ad annum Domini 846 pertinens
    (Chronicon ad annum Domini 846 pertinens, Chronicle until the year 846)
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Period covered:
Creation-846
Language:
Syriac
State of Preservation:
Partial
Genre:
  • Chronicle (chronica)
Remarks:
Palmer (1993: 83-84) proposes that the compiler of the Chronicle of 846 was David bishop of Harran (846-873). As the anonymous chronicle shows extended correspondences with the Chronicle of 819, it has been considered to have been involved in the transmission of the hypothetical Chronology of Qartamin (Conrad 1991: 23-24) and in the so-called 'circuit of Theophilus of Edessa' (Conrad 1991: 6-7, 23-24; Hoyland 1997: 419-420; Hoyland 2011: 26-29, 316-318; Borrut 2011: 151-152).
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Bibliography:
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  • R. Hoyland (1997) Seeing Islam as others saw it: A survey and evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian writings on early Islam (Studies in Late Antiquity and early Islam, 13). Princeton: 419-420.
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