A later compilation that for 1200 relies on Michael the Syrian and Ibn al-Athir, but adds the Jacobite church's own memory of the Jazira, Mosul, Melitene and the Artuqid and Zangid courts, and carries Michael's story past 1195: the Seljuk brothers' war in Rum, the Khwarazmian and Ghurid wars in the east, Mosul under Nur al-Din Arslan Shah, and the caliph al-Nasir. Useful as a check, and its separate ecclesiastical chronicle covers the patriarchal succession of 1199 to 1200. Derivative for most of 1200.
About this source
- Title
- Makhtbanut zabne (Chronicon Syriacum)
- Author
- Gregory Bar Hebraeus (Abu'l-Faraj)
- Author's dates
- 1226 to 1286
- Written
- about 1275 to 1286
- Language
- Syriac
- Covers
- creation to 1286
- Kind
- Chronicle
Budge's 1932 English is on the Internet Archive; its copyright status outside the United Kingdom is uncertain (Budge died in 1934). The ecclesiastical chronicle (Chronicon ecclesiasticum, ed. Abbeloos and Lamy, 1872 to 1877, with Latin) is a separate work.
Where to read it
Editions
- P. Bedjan (ed.), Gregorii Barhebraei Chronicon Syriacum (Paris, 1890), Syriac (not freely online)
Translations
About the source
Realms this source covers in 1200
- Mosul (Nur al-Din Arslan Shah)
- The Ayyubid Jazira (al-Adil's, under al-Kamil)
- Mardin (the Artuqids of Mardin)
- Hisn Kayfa and Amid (the Artuqids of Hisn Kayfa)
- The Seljuk sultanate of Rum
- The Abbasid caliphate: al-Nasir's Iraq and Khuzistan
- The Khwarazmshah's realm
- The Ghurid sultanate
- Aleppo (al-Zahir Ghazi)