Sylvester

URI https://medievalmideast.org/person/12993

bishop of Rome

Names

  • Armenian: Սելբեստրոս = Selbestros 1
  • Syriac: ܣܝܠܝܒܣܛܪܘܣ = SYLYBSṬRWS 2

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: 335

Temporal Data

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Event DescriptionDate
Event mentioned by Abraham Ankiwrats‘i.1 before 1453late 15th C16171957
Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian2 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1H.S. Anasyan, ed., Haykakan Aghbyurnerĕ Byuzandiayi Ankman Masin (Yerevan: Haykakan SSṚ Gitut‘yunneri Akademiayi Hratarakch‘ut‘yun, 1957), pp. 35-55 [Armenian].
    • Selbestros: Avedis K. Sanjian, Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts, 1301-1480: A Source for Middle Eastern History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1969), 1453 (no. 3) [English].
  • 2Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 123 [Syriac].
    • Silvester: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), I, 204, 205, 239-242, 246 [French].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, McKenzie Cady, and Jessica Mutter, “Sylvester” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified November 7, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/12993.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; gender assignment, matching, Armenian collection/transliteration from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: citation generation from Sanjian's Colophons of Armenian Manuscripts and categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: matching from Michael's chronicle
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