The Textual Tradition of Bar ‘Ebroyo’s Chronography and its Continuations: First Soundings

The Textual Tradition of Bar ‘Ebroyo’s Chronography and its Continuations: First SoundingsSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/BTR2MFJ8/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Simone Isacco MariaPratelliThe Textual Tradition of Bar ‘Ebroyo’s Chronography and its Continuations: First Soundingshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/BTR2MFJ8https://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/BTR2MFJ8https://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/BTR2MFJ8Erik S.KooperSjoerdLeveltThe Medieval Chronicle 13LeidenBrill2020247-265The present paper focuses on the Chronicle by the Syrian polymath Grigorios Bar ʿEbroyo († 1286), which has always been acknowledged as a milestone in Syriac historiography, especially in regard to the use of previous histories and compilations. Presenting the outcomes of the first three-year phase of a research project aiming at preparing a dependable and unabridged critical edition of Bar ʿEbroyo’s Chronicle, the following pages draw attention to the tangled manuscript tradition, structure and linguistic features of the Chronography and its so-called Continuations, with special focus on the rather inconsistent relationship between these last texts. In fact, despite the apparently seamless continuity, both arrangement and chronology of events show some gaps, and further text-critical issues (e.g. the skewed transmission of the same subtexts in witnesses) make the outlining of the original drafting process difficult. Eventually, not only do such divergences issue philological challenges, but also understanding the link between the work and its sources is problematic. Pratelli, Simone Isacco Maria. “The Textual Tradition of Bar ‘Ebroyo’s Chronography and Its Continuations: First Soundings.” In The Medieval Chronicle 13, edited by Erik S. Kooper and Sjoerd Levelt, 247–65. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Simone Isacco Maria Pratelli, The Textual Tradition of Bar ‘Ebroyo’s Chronography and Its Continuations: First Soundings,” in The Medieval Chronicle 13, ed. Erik S. Kooper and Sjoerd Levelt (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 247–65.BarhebraeusJacobitesVII-XVIII CEXIII CEchronicleshistoriography