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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    Apostle, which was in the gate of muhul, and he ordained other deacons in another church of the Mother of God in Baghdad. Now before the Maphrian went into Baghdad he sent and informed Archdeacon Thomas [of his coming], and he informed the Catholicus mar denha, and he sent bishops and many Baghdad noblemen to meet the Maphrian, and when he went into him he honoured him greatly on the roadside. And he turned to the great crowd of Jacobites and nestorians and said unto them, ‘Blessed are the people whom he thus hath.’ And having remained there the whole summer, in the latter months of the year 1588 (a.d. 1277), he went up to tagrith and sojourned in the famous churches which are therein. And all the nobles of tagrIth in every place rejoiced at this, for during the whole period of sixty years since the time when Ignatius, who became Patriarch, went forth from the town the Maphrian had never entered it. And having stayed there for about two months, he went back to nineveh and ordained three bishops, the first being michael, who is mukhles for beth raman, the second basil for the monastery of mar mattai over the diocese of beth takhshur, and the third denha, that is JOHN, over the monastery of mu'allak. And on the Sabbath of the Great Fast of the year 1590 (a.d. 1279), whilst the Maphrian was in the city of maragha, athanasius, bishop of beth nuhadhra, that is bar-summanah, died in bartall!—a capable and excellent man—and he was carried to the monastery of mar mattai. And in this year simon, the man who was known as bar-kaligh, who was bishop of the city of tus in khorasan, and denha, the Catholicus, had ordained him Metropolitan of the Chinese, began to magnify himself over the Catholicus before he went to china. And he sent and had him brought to him to the city of ’ashna in ’adhorbijan. And he stripped him of everything which he had, and he shut him up in the Monastery of mar behnam, which is in the city of lakhah. And when he fled from there to the mountains, certain of the men of the mountains seized him and brought him to the Catholicus, and he shut him up in his own cell. And after a few days simon and the bishops and monks who were with him died, but how this took place many people hold many and various opinions. And in the year 1591 (a.d. 1280), on the fourth day of the Sabbath of the Passion, John, bishop of gazarta of kardo, died. And because of his very long illness he had long ago spent everything which he had. He had freed the captive and he had sent to the monastery and the Maphrian everything which he possibly could, and he did not leave behind him a single coin. And in the year 1592 (a.d. 1281) mar denha, the Catholicus, having set out to go to Baghdad, was taken ill on the road. And after he reached the city he lingered on for a few days. Then on the night of the second day of the week which lighteneth the Great Fast, he departed this life on the