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Chronicle

Written 691 or 692; the place is not known. The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

A continuation of the Chronicle of Eusebius in tables of years, which survives only in part.

History · first written in Syriac

Not yet on the site. An English translation of this work exists, but we are not yet sure that it is in the public domain, or its text is not yet made ready. So it is not shown.

How we know the date and place
Date written probable
GEDSH, "Yaʿqub of Edessa", https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yaqub-of-Edessa; introduction at https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/james_of_edessa_chronicle_00_eintro.htm
He finished it in 691 or 692. Another hand took it on to 710.
Place written not known
GEDSH, "Yaʿqub of Edessa", https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Yaqub-of-Edessa
He had left Edessa by then. Perhaps the monastery of Eusebona. Not known.