Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Book of histories
ܬܫܥܝܬܐ
(taš‘ītā, History)
ܟܬܒܐ ܕܬܫ̈ܥܝܬܐ
(ktābā d-taš‘yātā, Book of histories)

Author:

Timothy Aelurus

Period covered:

Council of Ephesus (431)-death of Marcian (457)

Language:

Greek

State of Preservation:

Fragmentary

Genre:

Remarks:

This may have been a proper ecclesiastical history, but it may also be a polemical work to prove the miaphysite point of view - especially given the fact that Timothy was a high-profile opponent of the Council of Chalcedon.

Edition - Translation:

Fragments:

John Rufus, Plerophoriae [Nau 1912: 83-85, 152-153]
London, British Library, Additional 12156 [Nau 1919: 202-217]
Severus of Antioch, Against Felicissimus [Camplani 2011: 218-221]

Users:

Sources:

Anonymous (History of the Alexandrian episcopate)

Bibliography:

(1979) Clavis partum Graecorum (CPG) 5486
P. Blaudeau (2006) Alexandrie et Constantinople (451-491): De l'histoire à la géo-ecclésiologie (Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d'Athène et de Rome, 327). Rome.
A. Camplani (2011) 'A Syriac fragment from the Liber Historiarum by Timothy Aelurus (CPG 5486), the Coptic church history, and the archives of the bishopric of Alexandria'. In: Christianity in Egypt: Literary production and intellectual trends, ed. P. Buzi - A. Camplani (Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum, 125). Rome: 205-226.
W.E. Crum (1902) 'Eusebius and the Coptic church histories'. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 24: 68-84.
J. Lebon (1909) Le monophysisme sévérien: Étude historique, littéraire et théologique sur la résistance monophysite au Concile de Chalcédoine jusqu'à la constitution de l'Eglise jacobite. Leuven.
F. Nau (1912) Jean Rufus, évêque de Maïouma: Plérophories, c'est-à-dire témoignages et révélations (contre le Concile de Chalcédoine) (Patrologia Orientalis, 8). Paris: 3-208.
F. Nau (1919) Documents pour servir à l'historie de l'église nestorienne (Patrologia Orientalis, 13). Paris: 113-326.
T. Orlandi (1999) 'The Coptic ecclesiastical history: A survey'. In: The world of early Egyptian Christianity, ed. J. Goehring - J. Timbie. Washington D.C.: 3-24.
E. Watts (2009) 'Interpreting catastrophe: Disasters in the works of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite, Socrates Scholasticus, Philostorgius, and Timothy Aelurus'. Journal of Late Antiquity 2: 79-98.
E. Watts (2010) Riot in Alexandria: Tradition and group dynamics in late antique pagan and Christian communities. Berkeley - Los Angeles - London.
E. Watts (2011) 'John Rufus, Timothy Aelurus and the fall of the Western Roman Empire'. In: Romans, barbarians, and the transformation of the Roman world: Cultural interaction and the creation of identity in Late Antiquity, ed. R. Mathisen - D. Shanzer. Farnham - Burlington: 97-106.