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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 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 ...
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 lost.
Unique among Syriac chronicles it depends in part on the Book of Jubilees. The author also used the lost Ecclesiastical History of Dionysius of Tell Maḥrē for his coverage of the eighth through ninth centuries. He also uses Theophilus of Edessa (possibly through an Arabic translator) and al-Azdī, an Arabic author.
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]
The Khuzistan Chronicle is an anonymous 7th-century Nestorian Christian chronicle. Written in Syriac in East Syrian circles, it covers the period from ca. 590–660, [1] from the end of reign of the Sasanian ruler Hormizd IV (r.
Thomas the Presbyter (fl. 640) was a Syriac Orthodox priest from the vicinity of Reshaina in Upper Mesopotamia who wrote the Syriac Chronicle of 640, which is also known by many other names. [1] The Chronicle of 640 is an idiosyncratic universal history down to the year AD 640.
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 .
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