The Chronicon orientale (or al-Taʾrīkh al-Sharqī, both meaning "eastern chronicle") is an anonymous universal history written in Arabic by an Egyptian Christian between 1257 and 1260.
[4] The work is essentially an abstract or epitome of the chronographical chapters (47–50) of Abū Shākir's much longer Kitāb al-tawārīkh, published in 1257.
[5] The chronology of the Chronicon is provided by the Old Testament down to the time of Jesus, then by the Roman emperors down to Muḥammad and finally by the rulers of Islamic Egypt and Syria down to his own day.
[1] The Catholic scholar Abraham Ecchellensis published a Latin translation of the text in 1651, bringing Coptic historiography to western readership for the first time.
[8] In 1729 Giuseppe Simone Assemani reprinted Ecchellensis's with some emendations based on the latter's notes and on a manuscript in the Vatican Library.