Table of Contents
Introduction
The confessional background
The historical context (by R. H.)
The texts
Chronology and Chronological tables
Select bibliography of West-Syrian chronicles
Abbreviations, brackets, signs
Minor West-Syrian Chronography
A record of the Arab conquest of Syria, AD 637
Extract from a chronicle composed about AD 640
Extract from the Melkite Chronicle (AD 642+)
Extract from the Maronite Chronicle (AD 664+)
Fragment of James of Edessa, AD 691/2
A list of caliphs, composed after AD 705
A chronicle of disasters dated AD 716 (tr. S. P. B.)
A list of caliphs from the Arabic (AD 724+)
Extract from an 'Account', written in AD 775
Extract from the Chronicle of Zuqnin, AD 775
Inscriptions of Ehnesh, late eighth century
Extracts from two chronicles up to AD 819/846
Dionysius of Tel-Mahre Secular History, introduction
Concordance of the contents
Extract from the Chronicle of AD 1234
Two Apocalyptic Texts of AD 691+ (by S. P. B.)
Extract from the Apocalypse of Ps.-Methodius
The Edessene Apocalyptic Fragment
Epilogue
Appendices, Index and Maps