Chronography, Part 1 (Chronicon Syriacum) - ܦܠܓܘܬܐ ܩܕܡܝܬܐ ܕܟܪܘܢܘܓܪܦܝܐ

Titles

• Chronography, Part 1 (Chronicon Syriacum)
• ܦܠܓܘܬܐ ܩܕܡܝܬܐ ܕܟܪܘܢܘܓܪܦܝܐ2, 9
• Chronicon Syriacum8
• Syriac Chronicle8
• Syrische Chronik9
• The First Part of the Chronography5
• ܡܰܟܬܒܢܽܘܬ ܙܰܒܢ̈ܶܐ ܕܥܠܡܐ13
• Weltgeschichte13
• Universal History, Part i.22
• History of the World22
• Pars Prima [Chronographiae]24
• Pars I. Chronicon Patrum, & Regum33

Creators

• Gregorius bar Hebraeus — ܓܪܝܓܘܪܝܘܣ ܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐ [author]

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Abstract

The first part of Bar Hebraeus' Chronicle [http://syriaca.org/work/2500] ; an account of secular history from the time of Adam until Bar Hebraeus' own time (the 13th century). 8, 14

Incipit

“ܐܠܗܐ ܥܕܪ ܠܡܚܝܠܘܬܝ. ܡܒܪܟ ܐܢܬ ܗܘ ܡܪܝܐ ܘܡܪܐ ܕܟܠ ܫܘܪܝܐ ܘܫܪܝܐ: ܐܢܬ ܗܘ ܩܕܡܝܐ ܘܐܢܬ ܗܘ ܐܚܪܝܐ. ܘܠܘܬܟ ܡܬܛܝܒܐ ܟܠ ܡܪܕܝܬܐ:”2 “God, help my feebleness! Blessed be Thou, Lord, and Lord of the Universe, the beginning and the end; Thou art the First, and Thou art the last. With Thee every course of action is prepared.”5

Editions

This is not a comprehensive list of editions related to this work. Further citations may be available through The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Studies.

• Paulus Jacobus Bruns and Georg Wilhelm Kirsch, Bar-Hebraei Chronicon Syriacum e Codicibus Bodleianis, 2 vols. (Leipzig: A.F. Boehme, 1789), vol: 2.
  • Note: Includes continuation to the year 1297.
  • Note: Based on Oxford, Bodleian Library Huntingdon 52
  • Note: Based on Oxford, Bodleian Library Huntingdon 1
• Paulus Bedjan, Gregorii Barhebræi Chronicon Syriacum e Codd. Mss. Emendatum Ac Punctis Vocalibus Adnotationibusque Locupletatum (Paris: Maisonneuve, 1890).
  • Note: Includes continuation to the year 1297.
  • Note: Based on Bar-Hebraei Chronicon Syriacum e codicibus Bodleianis [http://syriaca.org/cbss/ADT3GD8D]
• E. A. Wallis Budge, ed., Syriac Texts, in The Chronography of Gregory Abû’l-Faraj 1225-1286 the Son of Aaron, the Hebrew Physician Commonly Known as Bar Hebraeus Being the First Part of His Political History of the World, vol. 2 (London: Oxford Univ. Press, H. Milford, 1932).
  • Note: Based on Oxford, Bodleian Library Huntingdon 52
• Georg Heinrich Bernstein, Ankuendigung Und Probe: Einer Neuen Kritischen Ausgabe Und Neuen Uebersetzung Der Syrischen Chronik Des Gregor Bar-Hebræus (Berlin: A. Asher und Comp., 1847), p: 1-4 (Syr.).
  • Note: Contains only the first few pages of the Chronicle.
• Paulus Jacobus Bruns, De Rebus Gestis Richardi Angliæ Regis in Palæstina: Excerptum Ex Gregorii Abulpharagii Chronico Syriaco (Oxonii: D. Prince & J. Cooke, 1780), p: I-XI (Syr.).
  • Note: Contains a short excerpt from the Chronicle.
• Julious Yeshu‘ Çiçek, Maktbānūt Zabnē Men Rīšā Da-Brītā ‘dammā La-Šnat 1285 m. d-Sīm I-Yaddu‘tānā Rabbā Mār Grīgōriyōs Yōḥannān Mapryānā Mšabbḥā d-Madnḥā d-Metdallal Bar ‘Ebrāyā (Glane / Losser: Bar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987).
  • Note: Based on Gregorii Barhebræi Chronicon Syriacum e codd. mss. emendatum ac punctis vocalibus adnotationibusque locupletatum [http://syriaca.org/cbss/UNLYKKGJ]

Manuscripts

This is not a comprehensive list of manuscripts related to this work.

• Oxford, Bodleian Library Huntingdon 1 , p 420-556
• Oxford, Bodleian Library Huntingdon 52 , fol 1-188
• Vatican Syr. 166 , fol 1-243v24
• Vatican Syr. 383 27
  • Note: This manuscript contains the beginning of the chronicle through the year A.D. 1034 (A.G. 1346).
• Vatican Syr. 384 27
  • Note: This manuscript is a continuation of Vat. sir. 383, from the years A.D. 1035 (A.G. 1347) to A.D. 1201 (A.G. 1513).
• Vatican Syr. 385 27
  • Note: This manuscript is a continuation of Vat. sir. 384, from the years A.D. 1202 (A.G. 1514) to A.D. 1288 (A.G. 1600).
• Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana orient. 366 33
  • Note: Assemani does not mention which folios part 1 comprises.
• Vatican Syr. 167 , fol 1-16124
• Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Sachau 210 Sachau 237 , fol 1-12838

Modern Translations

This is not a comprehensive list of modern translations related to this work. Further citations may be available through The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Studies.

• Latin: Paulus Jacobus Bruns and Georg Wilhelm Kirsch, Bar-Hebraei Chronicon Syriacum e Codicibus Bodleianis, 2 vols. (Leipzig: A.F. Boehme, 1789), vol: 1.
  • Note: Based on Bar-Hebraei Chronicon Syriacum e codicibus Bodleianis [http://syriaca.org/cbss/ADT3GD8D]
• English: Ernest A. Wallis Budge, The Chronography of Gregory Abû’l Faraj the Son of Aaron, the Hebrew Physician, Commonly Known as Bar Hebraeus, Being the First Part of His Political History of the World, 2 vols. (London: Oxford University Press, 1932).
  • Note: Wilmshurst calls this “a clotted English translation ... which has not yet been replaced by anything better.”8
  • Note: Based on Gregorii Barhebræi Chronicon Syriacum e codd. mss. emendatum ac punctis vocalibus adnotationibusque locupletatum [http://syriaca.org/cbss/UNLYKKGJ]
• English: Robert Bedrosian, ed., Bar Hebraeus’ Chronography: Translated from Syriac, trans. E. A. Wallis Budge, 2009, http://rbedrosian.com/BH/BH.html.
  • Note: Based on The Chronography of Gregory Abû’l Faraj the Son of Aaron, the Hebrew Physician, Commonly known as Bar Hebraeus, Being the First Part of His Political History of the World [http://syriaca.org/cbss/U3VSLMMA]
• Latin: Georg Heinrich Bernstein, Ankuendigung Und Probe: Einer Neuen Kritischen Ausgabe Und Neuen Uebersetzung Der Syrischen Chronik Des Gregor Bar-Hebræus (Berlin: A. Asher und Comp., 1847), p: 1-4 (Lat.).
  • Note: Contains only the first few pages of the Chronicle.
• Latin: Paulus Jacobus Bruns, De Rebus Gestis Richardi Angliæ Regis in Palæstina: Excerptum Ex Gregorii Abulpharagii Chronico Syriaco (Oxonii: D. Prince & J. Cooke, 1780), p: 5-11 (Lat.).
  • Note: Contains a short excerpt from the Chronicle.
• Arabic: اسحق ارملة, تاريخ الدول السرياني‮, المشرق 43–50 (1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956 1949): 43:463-502; 45:25-70, 181–99, 351–64, 517–32; 46:7-28, 385–400, 514–54; 47:3-25, 423–70; 48:418-457; 49:736-749; 50:3-16, 129–52, 257–74, 385–414. 7
  • Note: An excerpt beginning at Bejdan 95.4 (Dynasty 10) and continuing to the end.
  • Note: Based on Gregorii Barhebræi Chronicon Syriacum e codd. mss. emendatum ac punctis vocalibus adnotationibusque locupletatum [http://syriaca.org/cbss/UNLYKKGJ]
• Arabic: اسحق ارملة and فييه جان موريس, eds., تاريخ الزمان (بيروت: دار المشرق, 1986), http://www.aruc.org/fullbib.aspx?id=150386. 7
  • Note: This is a republication of Ishaq Armalet's translation in al-Mashriq, but starts at Bedjan, page 122 regarding Abū al-ʿAbbās and has an added introduction by Fiey.
  • Note: Based on Gregorii Barhebræi Chronicon Syriacum e codd. mss. emendatum ac punctis vocalibus adnotationibusque locupletatum [http://syriaca.org/cbss/UNLYKKGJ]
• Turkish: Ömer Rı̇za Doğrul, ed., Abûʼl Farac tarı̇hı̇, Türk Tarih Kurumu yayınlarından 2 11a (Ankara: Türk Tarı̇h Kurumu Basımevı̇, 1945). 7
  • Note: Based on The Chronography of Gregory Abû’l Faraj the Son of Aaron, the Hebrew Physician, Commonly known as Bar Hebraeus, Being the First Part of His Political History of the World [http://syriaca.org/cbss/U3VSLMMA]
• Russian: Рауф Алишир Гусейнов, Сирийские Источники XII–XIII Вв. Об Азербайджане (Баку: Издательство АН АзССР, 1960), p: 61-83. 7
  • Note: Excerpts
• Italian: Ada Rosanna Marino, Confronto Tra Il Ta’rīḫ Muḫtaṣar Ad-Duwal e Il Chronicon Syriacum Di Abū l-Farağ Ibn al-‘Ibrī (Barebreo)” (Ph.D. dissertation, Università degli Studi di Venezia Cà Foscari, 2002), p: 53-166. 7
  • Note: Excerpts of parts corresponding to Bedjan 263.25-408.2 (the period of 1097-1203)

Secondary Literature

This is not a comprehensive list of secondary literature related to this work. Further citations may be available through The Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Studies.

• H. Takahashi, Bar ʿEbroyo, Grigorios, in The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 55.
• Hidemi Takahashi, Barhebraeus: A Bio-Bibliography (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2005), p: 74-76277-288.
  • Note: See here for additional secondary literature on the Chronicle and other editions/translations.
• David Wilmshurst, Bar Hebraeus. The Ecclesiastical Chronicle, Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 40 (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2016), p: vii-lx.
• Robert Payne Smith, Catalogi Codicum Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae. Pars Sexta: Codices Syriacos, Carshunicos, Mendaeos, Complectens (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1864), https://archive.org/details/codicessyricaco00smitgoog, entry: 122.9col: 395-398entry: 167col: 548-550.
• William Wright, A Short History of Syriac Literature (London: A. and C. Black, 1894), p: 278-279