[1] The text's first editor, E. W. Brooks, suggested that, to judge from the number of references to the bishops of Ḥarrān, it may have been composed in that location.
[3] The only surviving copy of the Chronicle of 819 was made by a certain Severus for his uncle David, a monk of Qarṭmin consecrated bishop of Ḥarrān by John IV.
[5] Elsewhere, Palmer suggests that Nonnus of Ḥarrān, a monk of Qarṭmin who became bishop of Ṭur ʿAbdin shortly before 845, may have been the final redactor of the Chronicle of 846.
[6] The Chronicle is a series of chronologically ordered short notices,[4] typically preceded by the year given in the Seleucid era.
The later sections are local in character and rely on non-universal chronicles, as well as lists of bishops and the canons of church councils.
[1] As befits its Syriac Orthodox point of view, the Chronicle is hostile to the Byzantine emperor Leo III the Isaurian and favourable to the Caliph ʿUmar.
Its account of the campaign of Sharāḥīl ibn ʿUbayda against the Bulgars during the siege of Constantinople (717–718) may be derived from an Arabic source.