RESOURCESH. It was published with a Latin translation as Historiarum, CSHB
12 (Bonn, 1834). The Greek text alone was published by C. De Boor
as Historiae (Stuttgart, 1972). By far the best local contemporary
source for Iraq in the early seventh century is a chronicle compiled or
redacted by an anonymous Nestorian monk in the 670s (the so-called
Khuzistan chronicle), which covers the reigns of Hurmizd IV and
Khusraw II and the period of the Muslim conquest through the 640s.
The text was published by I. Guidi as Chroniea Minora I, CSCO, Ser.
Syri, 1 (Louvain, 1955): 16-39, with a Latin translation in CSCO,
Ser. Syri, 2 (Louvain, 1955): 13-32, from a modern copy of a four-
teenth-century manuscript. T. Noldeke's annotated German transla-
tion, "Die von Guidi herausgegebene syrische Chronik," Sitzungsber-
iehte der kaiserliehen Akademie der Wissensehaften, Phil.-Hist. Klasse
(Vienna, 1893), 128: 1-48, is utterly reliable. This period is also
covered up to 661 by the history of Heraclius in Armenian, ascribed
to Sebeos. It was edited and translated by F. Macler in Histoire d'He-
radius par J'eveque Sebeos (Paris, 1904); but since its main concern
is Armenian ecclesiastical matters, it is only peripheral to Iraq. A
contemporary account of events in the late seventh century from north-
eni Mesopotamia is given by the Nestorian monk and native of Beth
Zabhde, yol).annan bar Penkaye. His Ketabha dhe Resh Melle is a
summary of world history until 686 and was composed in the 690s.
The last two books (XIV and XV) cover the seventh century but are
highly partisan and prone to exaggeration. This text was published in
A. Mingana's Sources syriaques (Leipzig, 1907), I: 1 -171 , with a
French translation of book XV (pp. 172-97). An account of books
XIII-XV is given by A. Scher in "Notice sur la vie et les oeuvres de
Yohannan bar Penkaye," fA, 10th ser., 10 (1907): 161-78. See also
P. G. Sfair, "11 no me e l'epoca d'un antico scrittore siriaco," Bessarione
31 (1915): 135-58, and "Degli scritti e della dottrina di Bar Pinkaie,"
ibid., pp. 290-309. For a more recent discussion, see T. Jansma's
"Projet d'edition du Ketaba de Resh Melle de Jean bar Penkaye,"
L'Orient Syrien 8 (1963): 87-106.
Several later Syriac minor chronicles and fragments of chronicles
cover the seventh and eighth centuries. They consist mostly of lists of
events by year or of lists of rulers and are identified in Brock's "Syriac
Sources," pp. 18-22. An anonymous chronicle of world history from
creation until 774 was compiled in northern Mesopotamia in about
775 and has been falsely attributed to Dionysius of Tell Mahre. Part
4 which begins with the death of Justin 11, was edited, with a French