Basilios Abū l-Faraj bar Shūmānā

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bishop of Kayshūm, then bishop of Edessa

Names

  • Syriac: ܒܐܣܝܠܠܝܘܣ = BʾSYLLYWS 1

Attributes

  • Male
  • Floruit: after 17 Feb. 1441 AG / 1130, before Sept. 1448 AG / 1137

Temporal Data

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Events mentioned by Michael the Syrian1 before 11991195-1199?15982009

Sources

  • 1Gregorios Yuhanna Ibrahim, ed., The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex of the Chronicle of Michael the Great (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2009), 603 [Syriac].
    • Basilius: J.-B. Chabot, trans., Chronique de Michel le Syrien (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1901), III, 207, 242, 252, 256, 259, 262, 263, 267, 271, 277, 278, 302, 334, 478 [French].
    • Basil Bar-Shumōnō: Michael the Syrian, The Chronicle of Michael the Great (The Edessa-Aleppo Syriac Codex): Books XV–XXI From the Year 1050 to 1195 AD, ed. Amir Harrak (Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2019), xvi, xxvii, 112 n.344, 184, 198, 200, 210, 216, 224, 230, 252 [Syriac with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson, et al., “Basilios Abū l-Faraj bar Shūmānā” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/18408.

Additional credit information:

  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; and matching, Syriac collection and transliteration, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • Jessica Mutter: gender assignment, matching, and reconciling Harrak's pages from Michael's chronicle
  • McKenzie Cady: categorization from Michael's chronicle
  • Laurel Kenner: incorporated Harrak's pages
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