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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    strong enough he went to the Patriarch in the monastery of bar-sawma. And in [those] days also there came Simon the Elder, and he brought a pukdana which abrogated that document which the Patriarch had, and thus that which the Maphrian has said actually came to pass. And the Maphrian left and went to Tabriz, and from there to maragha, and he sat down in the new monastery there. And he finished the Book of euclid, and then he went to nineveh in the latter months of the year. And in the year 1583 (a.d. 1272), in the days of winter, basil [bishop] of Tabriz died; with the help of certain blessed merchants he had restored our church which was therein. And when certain monks from the monas¬ tery of mar mattai drew nigh and offered the Maphrian money to ordain them to the diocese, he refused to do so because they were lacking in learning and possessed the habits and manners of young men. But he committed the monastery to severus, who when he went there in the days of the Great Festival of the Resurrection was well received, and he began to take charge of the finishing of the buildings of the new church at TABRIZ. And in the days of summer also the Maphrian went to maragha a second time, and he built a cell and a house of prayer in the new church which was there. And when he had been there one year, and had finished the Book of migisti of ptolemy, there came to him ya'kub the Elder, the brother of simon the Elder and physician, after the Festival of the Resurrection of the year 1584 (a.d. 1273), and he entreated him to go with him to the monastery of bar sawma to establish peace between them and the Patriarch. And the Maphrian hearkened to him, and went up with him to the monas¬ tery, and from there he went to cilicia, to the Patriarch, and he took with him nimrud the deacon, the son of the brother of the Elders, and he ordained him Elder and Metropolitan of melitene, and confirmed the peace. And the Maphrian returned to melitene, and from there [he came] to NINEVEH. And in the year 1585 (a.d. 1274) the church of our people which was in the city of Baghdad, near the palace of the Khalifah, was restored by the help of the chief of the lawyers, safi ad-dawlah suliman bar gamala. And in the year 1588 (a.d. 1277) severus, bishop of Tabriz, died, and the believers mourned his death greatly, and they gave a general agreement to Joseph the monk, his nephew. And he came and was ordained in the monastery of mar mattai by the Maphrian in the days of the Fast of Forty Days; and he went and sat in the Church of Tabriz and was named Dionysius. And in the year, in the days of the Festival of the Resurrection, the Maphrian went down to Baghdad and kept the festival there. And he ordained shams ad-dawlah mari, the son of am!n ad-dawlah taoma, a deacon, and with him others of the sons of noblemen. And he also conse¬ crated muron oil in the church of the Catholicus of mar thomas the