Chronicle

Title(s):
  • Chronicle
  • ܟܬܒܐ
    (ktābā, Book)
  • ܡܟܬܒܢܘܬܐ
    (maktbānūtā, Chronicle)
Period covered:
Foundation of Edessa by Nimrod - at least 1146
Language:
Syriac
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Chronicle (general)
Remarks:
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • Michael the Great, Chronicle 17.1, 7 [Chabot 1910: 629, 639-640]
  • Chronicle of 1234 [Chabot 1916: 131, 309; Abouna - Fiey 1974: 99, 231]
Sources:
Bibliography:
  • I.A. Barsoum (2000) The scattered pearls: A history of Syriac literature and sciences. Piscataway (NJ): 430-431.
  • J.-B. Chabot (1905) (tr.) Chronique de Michel le Syrien, patriarche jacobite d'Antioche (1166-1199). Volume Three. Paris.
  • J.-B. Chabot (1910) (ed.) Chronique de Michel le Syrien, patriarche jacobite d'Antioche (1166-1199). Volume Four. Paris.
  • J.-B. Chabot (1916) Chronicon ad annum Christi 1234 pertinens. Volume Two (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 3.15). Paris.
  • M. Debié (2015) L'écriture de l'histoire en syriaque: Transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et Islam (Late antique history and religion, 12). Leuven - Paris - Bristol: 575-576.
  • J.-M. Fiey, A. Abouna 1974) Anonymi auctoris Chronicon ad annum Christi 1234 pertinens. Volume Two (Corpus scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 109: Scriptores Syri, 56). Leuven.
  • A. Hilkens (2018) The Anonymous Syriac Chronicle of 1234 and its Sources (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, 272). Leuven: 305-314
  • J.J. van Ginkel (2010) ‘A man is not an island: Reflections of the historiography of the early Syriac renaissance in Michael the Great’. In: The Syriac renaissance, ed. H.G.B. Teule - C.F. Tauwinkl - R. B. ter Haar Romeny - J.J. van Ginkel (Eastern Christian studies, 9). Leuven - Paris - Walpole (MA): 113-122.