Joshua the Stylite, Chronicle composed in Syriac in AD 507 (1882) pp.i-x
THE CHRONICLE OF JOSHUA THE STYLITE.
London: C. J. CLAY AND SON,
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE,
17, P ATERNOSTER R OW .
Cambridge: DEIGHTON, BELL, AND CO.
Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS.
THE CHRONICLE
OF
JOSHUA THE STYLITE,
COMPOSED IN SYRIAC
A.D. 507,
WITH A TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH AND NOTES
BY
W. WRIGHT, LL.D.,
PROFESSOR OF ARABIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.
EDITED FOR THE SYNDICS OF THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
CAMBRIDGE:
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
1882
Cambridge:
PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. & SON,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
PREFACE.
I. The Chronicle of Joshua (Yeshua or Jesus) the Stylite has been long known to historians in the abridged Latin translation of Joseph Simon Assemani, which occupies pp. 262-283 of the first volume of his Bibliotheca Orientalis; and it is generally acknowledged to be one of the most valuable authorities for the period with which it deals . The first complete edition of the Syriac text did not, however, appear till 1876, when it was edited for the German Oriental Society, with a French translation and many useful notes , by the well known orientalist the Abbe P. Martin, to whose industry scholars are indebted for various important Syriac publications.