Chronicon Anonymum Ad Annum 1234 Sources
e-GEDESH notes that Chronicon Anonymum Ad Annum 1234
is based on the Eusebian model, but follows the later Syriac tradition in using many large narrative entries, sometimes even preserving the chapter structure of the sources
.
e-GEDESH adds however that the author of Chron. 1234
sometimes edits these sources
.
Although Chron. 1234 shares many sources with
Michael the Syrian,
the selection of material seems to have been made independently
.
e-GEDESH lists
Chron. 1234's likely sources as follows:
- large fragments from the works of Eusebius (or rather an extended Syriac version)
- Pseudo-Zacharias
- Yuḥanon of Ephesus
- Dionysios of Tel Maḥre
- Basil of Edessa
- other sources
- pseudepigraphical material, especially for the time before Abraham, most notably from Jubilees and the Cave of Treasures
- There are also traces of unknown Arabic sources
Brock(1976)
suggests that
the lost chronicle of Dionysius of Teilmahre appears
to be one of the compiler's main sources for this period [7th century CE].
Hoyland, 1997:416-419 notes that Dionysius of Tell-Mahre cited
Theophilus
of Edessa as a source.