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Vatican Syr. 163 folio

The Chronicle of Edessa (Шаблон:Lang-la) is an anonymous history of the city of Edessa written in the mid-6th century in the Syriac language. "Chronicle of Edessa" is a conventional title; in the manuscript it is titled Histories of Events in Brief (Syriac: ܬܫ̈ܥܝܬܐ ܕܣܘܥܪ̈ܢܐ ܐܝܟ ܕܒܦܣܝ̈ܩܬܐ, Tašʿyātā d-suʿrāne a(y)k da-b-pāsiqātā).Шаблон:Efn

The Chronicle of Edessa is generally agreed to have been written around Шаблон:CE.Шаблон:Efn The Chronicle primarily used old Edessan royal archives as its source, as well as some more recent church records,Шаблон:Sfn and accordingly is thought to be historically reliable.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn It may make use of a lost history of Persia.Шаблон:Sfn

It is extant only in an abbreviated version in a single manuscript, Vatican Syriac 163 (Vat. Syr. 163).Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn This manuscript, from the Syrian Convent of Our Lady in the Wadi El Natrun,Шаблон:Sfn was acquired by Giuseppe Simone Assemani during a trip to the Near East from 1715–1717 taken at the request of Pope Clement XI.Шаблон:Sfn Some excerpts of the lost full version of the text—sometimes called the Original Chronicle of Edessa—are preserved in other Syriac chronicles.Шаблон:Sfn

The Chronicle covers the period from the founding of the kingdom of Osrhoene in Шаблон:BCE until 540,Шаблон:Sfn but few events are recorded before the 3rd century.Шаблон:Sfn The Chronicle picks up with a record of a flood of the river Daysan during the reign of Abgar VIII in November 201, which damaged a Christian church building in Edessa.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn This is the earliest mention of a building dedicated exclusively to Christian worship,Шаблон:Sfn as well as one of few records of Christianity in Edessa at this time.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Unlike other Syriac literature, the Chronicle does not contain any legends of the Apostle Thaddeus.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

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