Late Antique Historiography

Chronographikon syntomon

Title(s):
  • Chronographikon syntomon
  • Χρονογραφικὸν σύντομον
    (Chronographikon suntomon, Short chronography)
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Period covered:
Adam-author's time
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
  • Chronicle (chronicle epitome)
  • Chronicle (synopsis)
Remarks:
Not all manuscripts contain all the tables included in de Boor's edition, and in two of them the composition appears anonymously. Consequently, Mango (1990: 4) questions the attribution to Nicephorus, arguing that the concept of authorship can hardly be applied to such a collection.
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Bibliography:
  • P.J. Alexander (1958) The patriarch Nicephorus of Constantinople. Oxford.
  • 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: 432-433, 434-435.
  • C. Mango (1986) 'The Breviarium of Patriarch Nicephorus'. In: Byzantium: tribute to Andreas N. Stratos. Volume Two, ed. N.A. Stratos. Athens: 539-552.
  • C. Mango (1990) Nikephoros Patriarch of Constantinople: Short history (Corpus fontium historiae Byzantinae, 13 = Dumbarton Oaks texts, 10). Dumbarton Oaks: 2-4.
  • L. Neville (2018) Guide to Byzantine historical writing. Cambridge.