Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Chronology of the Catholicoi
ܝܘܒܠ ܙܒ̈ܢܐ ܕܩܬܘ̈ܠܝܩܐ
(yūbāl zabnē d-qatūlīqē, Chronology of the katholikoi)
Series temporum catholicorum

Author:

Anonymous (Chronology of the Catholicoi)

Period covered:

At least 729/730-963/964

Language:

Syriac

State of Preservation:

Fragmentary

Genre:

Remarks:

The work, a list of the leaders of the East-Syrian church, is used by Elias of Nisibis as a witness for the chronological equivalence between hegira and era of the Greeks.

Edition - Translation:

Fragments:

Elias of Nisibis, Chronicle [Brooks 1910 (ed.): 165, 183, 184, 187, 192, 200, 209, 217]

Users:

Elias of Nisibis

Sources:

Bibliography:

E.W. Brooks (1910) (tr.) Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni opus chronologicum. Volume One (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 62: Scriptores Syri, 23). Paris - Leipzig.
E.W. Brooks (1910) (ed.) Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni opus chronologicum. Volume One (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 62: Scriptores Syri, 21). Paris - Leipzig.
L.I. Conrad (1990) 'Syriac perspectives on Bilād al-Shām during the Abbasid period'. In: Bilād al-Shām during the Abbasid period: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on the history of Bilad al-Sham, ed. M.A. al-Bakhit - R. Schick. Amman: 1-44. esp 20.