Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Chronicle
ܟܬܒ ܙܒ̈ܢܐ
(ktab zabnē, Chronicle)

Author:

Andronicus

Period covered:

At least Adam-334/335

Language:

Syriac

State of Preservation:

Fragmentary

Genre:

Remarks:

The Chronicle was structured according to the Eusebian model: a chronography including series regum probably combined with longer narrative material, followed by chronological canons. Andronicus' discrepancies with Eusebius in the lists of kings are probably ultimately due to the differences between their Jewish chronologies. Andronicus amended the patriarchal chronology according to the Septuagint version. According to Michael the Great, Andronicus is the only one, except for Jacob of Edessa, to give an account on the Hebrew high-priests (Chabot 1899: 50). The references to Andronicus in Bar Ebroyo are most likely derived from Michael the Great. It is possible that the work was composed in Greek.

Edition - Translation:

Fragments:

Anonymous, Chronicle of the year 846 [Brooks 1904: 159, 193,4-6]; Anonymous, Chronicle of the year 1234 [Chabot 1920: 27, 125]
Elias of Nisibis, Chronicle [Brooks 1910 (ed.): 17, 20, 23, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 74, 75, 77, 79-81, 85, 89-90, 99]
Michael the Great, Chronicle 1.5 [Chabot 1910: 4], 2.1 [Chabot 1910: 28-32], 2.6 [Chabot 1910: 13], 3.8 [Chabot 1910: 25-26], 3.2 [Chabot 1910: 22], 3.6 [Chabot 1910: 23, 24,34], 3.9 [Chabot 1910: 26], 4.6 [Chabot 1910: 33], 4.9 [Chabot 1910: 36], 4.10 [Chabot 1910: 37], 4.11 [Chabot 1910: 37], 5.4 [Chabot 1910: 74], 4.12 [Chabot 1910: 38,39] 4.13 [Chabot 1910: 40] 4.14 [Chabot 1910: 41,43,44,45,47] 4.15 [Chabot 1910: 54] 4.20 [Chabot 1910: 55] 4.21 [Chabot 1910: 65] 5.1 [Chabot 1910: 76] 5.3 [Chabot 1910: 72] 5.7 [Chabot 1910: 82,84, 85, 86] 5.8 [Chabot 1910: 86] 5.9 [Chabot 1910: 87] 5.10 [Chabot 1910: 90] 8.6 [Chabot 1910: 115] 9.6 [Chabot 1910: 117]
Bar Ebroyo, Chronicle, First part (Chronography) [Bedjan 1890: 15, 16, 17, 27, 30, 37, 47]
Bar Ebroyo, Chronicle, Second part (Ecclesiastical history) [Abbeloos - Lamy 1872-1877: 3, 11, 13]

Users:

Sources:

Eusebius of Caesarea

Bibliography:

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P. Bedjan (1890) (ed.) Gregorii Barhebræi Chronicon Syriacum e codd. mss. emendatum ac punctis vocalibus adnotationibusque locupletatum. Paris.
E.W. Brooks (1910) (tr.) Eliae metropolitae Nisibeni opus chronologicum. Volume One (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 62: Scriptores Syri, 23). Paris - Leipzig.
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