Annals

The original work written by Said ibn Batriq, known also as Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria, has been expanded in various stages by anonymous interpolators. According to Breydy (1985), the only manuscript preserving the original core of Eutychius' work is the Sinaiticus Arabicus 582, and on it he based his edition and translation of what he called the ‘Alexandrian’ recension of the Annals. What Breydy calls the ‘Antiochian’, interpolated,  recension is accessible, in its most extended form, in Cheikho’s edition (1906-1909). Although Breydy presents his interpretation as conclusive, the nature of the Sinai codex and its relation to the rest of the manuscript tradition demand further investigation, as does the gradual expansion of Eutychius’ text between Alexandria and Antioch.