The chronography of Gregory Abû'l Faraj, the son of Aaron, the Hebrew physician, commonly known as Bar Hebraeus : being the first part of his political history of the world / translated from the Syriac by Ernest A. Wallis Budge.

  • Bar Hebraeus
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1932
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Credit: The chronography of Gregory Abû'l Faraj, the son of Aaron, the Hebrew physician, commonly known as Bar Hebraeus : being the first part of his political history of the world / translated from the Syriac by Ernest A. Wallis Budge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cilicia, and his sons, and his brothers, and the remainder of his nobles, and other Armenian bishops in the Church of the Mother of God. And the Patriarch with the Maphrian and the rest of the bishops made ready and went to tender homage to the king of kings (i.e. hulagu, the King of the Tatars), and [one] Patent was written for the Patriarch, and another for the Maphrian. And whilst the Patriarch removed to the territory of the rumaye, the Maphrian came to Mosul. And the people of the palace and all Christians went forth to meet him, and they brought him in with [the] singing of hymns and psalms. And from there he went up to the monastery, and he was received with love by the dwellers in the monastery and by the men of the country. And he ordained behnam, the monk, who was known as bar summanah, bishop of beth nuhadhre, in the church of beth daniel the Upper, on the fourth day of the half of the Fast of our Lord (i.e. Mid-Lent), in the year 1576 (a.d. 1265). And he also came down to Baghdad, and the Archdeacon and the other honourables went forth to meet him. mar makhikha, the Catholicus of the Nestorians, perceiving this, sent the son of his brother and the son of his sister and other natives of Baghdad to meet him, and they brought him to him with honour. And when he went forth from the cell of the Catho¬ licus to go to his church which is in the gate of muhul, he sent with him those who had gone forth to meet him, and with them was a white silk dalmatic, and they came and put it on the Maphrian, and they left and departed. And the Maphrian also sent to him valuable gifts, and the believing men rejoiced greatly in the Maphrian. And, moreover, crowds of Nestorians gathered together every day in that church of ours, and they also prepared muron oil for consecration, and saw a wonderful sign. For when the vessel was unfilled to a depth of four fingers, as soon as the consecration thereof was completed, the muron oil swelled up in the vessel and would have run over the top to waste if they had not poured it off into a small flask. And again certain men of the nestorians heard that the Jacobites were proclaiming the Maphrian Catholicus in the Diptychs, and they went and told the Catholicus. And he was smitten with envy and schemed to dis¬ cover an opportunity for stirring up strife. Then God, glory be to His grace! prevented him from giving offence to any man. And in the days which came after the festival he felt pain in the colon at the ninth hour of the sixth day of the week (i.e. Friday), and he died in the morning of the Sabbath which followed the Sabbath of the White, on the 18th day of nIsan, in the year 1576 (a.d. 1265), and was buried in the new church which he had built. And the Maphrian was in Baghdad the whole of that summer, and he ordained many deacons and bishops. And he also ordained to Baghdad iSHOr the monk, from the monastery of mar hananya, and he was called