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[1] [8] On the publication of the fourth part of the chronicle by Chabot, it was shown by Theodor Nöldeke, [9] and Nau, [10] that Assemani had been mistaken, and that the largest part of the chronicle in question was the work of an earlier writer, most probably Joshua the Stylite, from Zuqnin, whose name is inserted in the 9th century colophon ...
The Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite is an anonymous Syriac history of the period 494–506 AD. Its actual title as given in the manuscript is A Historical Narrative of the Period of Distress Which Occurred in Edessa, Amid and All Mesopotamia.
Page from a Syriac translation of Abba Isaiah's Asceticon, [1] from a 6th-century manuscript in Estrangela script, from the Monastery of St Catherine, Mt Sinai (Schøyen Collection MS 574) Syriac literature is literature in the Syriac language. It is a tradition going back to the Late Antiquity. It is strongly associated with Syriac ...
The Chronicle of 1234 (Latin: Chronicon ad annum Christi 1234 pertinens) is an anonymous West Syriac universal history from Creation until 1234. [1] [2] The unknown author was probably from Edessa. The Chronicle only survives in fragments, from which it is known to be divided into two parts: the first on ecclesiastical history, the second on ...
The copy is a palimpsest: the folios were taken from five different Greek manuscripts, erased and written over. [2] A "perfectly distinct work", the Chronicle of 813, [1] is bound immediately after it in the codex but was originally a separate manuscript. [3] The original text of the Chronicle of 846 began with Creation, but this part has been ...
Some excerpts of the lost full version of the text—sometimes called the Original Chronicle of Edessa—are preserved in other Syriac chronicles. [ 7 ] The Chronicle covers the period from the founding of the kingdom of Osrhoene in 133/132 BCE until 540, [ 7 ] but few events are recorded before the 3rd century. [ 5 ]
Joshua the Stylite (also spelled Yeshu Stylite [1] and Ieshu Stylite) is the attributed author of a chronicle which narrates the history of the war between the Byzantine Empire and Persians between 502 and 506, and which is generally considered [by whom?] to be one of the earliest [2] and most reliable historical documents to be preserved in Syriac.