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Pages in category "Syriac chronicles" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. Chronicle of 640;
The Maronite Chronicle is an anonymous annalistic chronicle in the Syriac language completed shortly after 664. It is so named because its author appears to have been a Maronite. It survives today only in a single damaged 8th- or 9th-century manuscript in London, British Library Add. 17,216. Owing to the damage, portions of the chronicle are ...
The Chronicle of 813 is an anonymous Syriac chronicle that covers the period from 754 until 813.. A single copy of the Chronicle survives across four partially damaged folios of the manuscript Brit. Mus. Add. MS 14642, where it immediately follows another anonymous Syriac chronicle, the Chronicle of 846.
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
This Neo-Syriac literature bears a dual tradition: it continues the traditions of the Syriac literature of the past, and it incorporates a converging stream of the less homogeneous spoken language. The first such flourishing of Neo-Syriac was the seventeenth century literature of the School of Alqosh , in northern Iraq .
The Zuqnin Chronicle is a medieval chronicle written in Classical Syriac language, encompassing the events from Creation to c. 775 CE. It was most probably produced in the Zuqnin Monastery near Amida (the modern Turkish city of Diyarbakır) on the upper Tigris. The work is preserved in a single handwritten manuscript (Cod. Vat. 162), now in the ...
[17]: 270 Other scholars who have supported the (at least partial) authenticity and historical credibility of the Chronicle include Carl Eduard Sachau, orientalist (1915), Adolf von Harnack, theologian and historian (1924), and Sebastian Paul Brock, scholar in Syriac languages (1967 and 1992) who also says the account of the early spread of ...
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.