Pseudo-Dionysius of Tell-Mahre References
Harrak, A. (2017). The Chronicle of Zuqnīn: From the creation to the year 506/7 AD. Parts I and II, Gorgias Press.
Annals Part II by Pseudo-Dionysius of Tell-Mahre in Syriac at archive.org
Cod. Vat. 162 - The sole surviving manuscript at the Vatican (Cod. Vat. 162) - This manuscript is claimed by
some to be the autograph - the first draft of the manuscript. No further recension, or copy, is known to exist.
Cod. Vat. 162 - The sole surviving manuscript at the Vatican (Cod. Vat. 162) - This manuscript is claimed by
some to be the autograph - the first draft of the manuscript. No further recension, or copy, is known to exist.
Neuhäuser et al. (2021:4) notes that:
the text survived in one manuscript of 173 folios located as Codex Zugninensis at the Vatican Library (Vat. Syr. 162), and the remaining six folios are found in the British Library (Add. 14.665 folio 2-7); in Codex Zugninensis, 129 folios are palimpsest, one even a double-palimpsest (Harrak, 1999). Some of the folios in the British Library which cover the last years are partly worm-eaten and very fragmentary. Its first and last folios are lost together with the name of the author (Harrak, 1999). The Chronicle is divided into four parts, all translated to English (Harrak, 1999, 2017) and French (Chabot, 1895).Neuhäuser et al. (2021:4) adds:
The Chronicle of Zugnin is not known to be copied and disseminated; sometime during the 9th century it was transferred to the Monastery of the Syrians in the Egyptian desert; see Section 4b for a possible use by Nu'aym ibn Hammad. Shortly after the manuscript was found and bought for the Vatican, it was considered to be written by the West Syrian patriarch Dionysius I of Tell-Mahire, so that this chronicle was long known as Chronicle of Dionysius of Tell-Mabre (Assemani, 1719-1728).
Harrak (2017:xvi) notes major sources identified in Parts I and II of the
Zugnin Chronicle had been discussed in great detail by Witakowski
.
Witakowski, Study, p. 124-135
Witakowski, "The Sources of Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre for the Second Part of his Chronicle," in J.O. Rosenqvist (ed.),
AEIMΩN Studies Presented to Lennart Ryden on his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Uppsala, 1996), pp. 181-210
Witakowski, "Sources of Pseudo-Dionysius of Tel-Mahre for the Christian Epoch of the First Part of his Chronicle," in G.J. Reinink and A.C. Klugkist (eds.),
After Bardaisan: Studies on Continuity and Change in Syriac Christianity in Honour of Professor Han J.W. Drijvers
(Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters en Department Oosterse Studies, 1999), pp. 329-366.