Chronicle of Cambridge explained

The Chronicle of Cambridge or Cambridge Chronicle, also known as the Tarʾīkh Jazīrat Ṣiqilliya ("History of the Island of Sicily"), is a short, anonymous medieval chronicle covering the years 827–965. It is the earliest native Sicilian chronicle of the emirate of Sicily,^[1] and was written from the perspective of a Sicilian Christian of the 10th or 11th century.^[2] It survives in two versions: a Greek version in two manuscripts and an Arabic version in one. For years only the Arabic text kept in Cambridge University Library was known, but in 1890 a Greek redaction was discovered. The Greek texts are found in the Vatican Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Codex Parisinus Graecus 920).^{[3] [4]} It has been translated into English,^[3] Italian^[5] and French.^[6]

Editions

• In Biblioteca arabo-sicula, 2nd revised edition, U. Rizzitano, A. Borruso, M. Cassarino and A. De Simone (eds.), 2 vols and appendix, Palermo 1982. vol. 1, pp. 277–93.
• In Biblioteca arabo-sicula, 2nd revised edition, M. Amari and U. Rizzitano (eds.), 2 vols, Palermo 1987–88. vol. 1, pp. 190–203.

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Islamic Palermo and the Dār al-Islām: Politics, Society and the Economy (from the mid-9th Century to the mid-11th Century) . Annliese . Nef . Brill . 2013 . 39–60 . A Companion to Medieval Palermo: The History of a Mediterranean City from 600 to 1500.
2. Book: Metcalfe, Alexander . Muslims and Christians in Norman Sicily: Arabic-Speakers and the End of Islam . Routledge . 2013 . 9.
3. Web site: Alexander . Metcalfe . The Cambridge Chronicle . Medieval Sicily . 10 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180603235841/http://www.medievalsicily.com/Docs/02_Islamic/Cambridge%20Chronicle.pdf . 3 June 2018 . dead .
4. Book: Alexander, Paul Julius . The Byzantine Apocalyptic Tradition . limited . 85 . 1985 . University of California Press.
5. Giuseppe . Cozza-Luzi . 1890 . La cronaca siculo-saracena di Cambridge con doppio testo greco scoperto in codici contemporanei delle Bibliotheca Vaticana e Parigina . Documenti per Servire alla Storia di Sicilia, Pubblicati e Cura della Società Siciliana per la Storia Patria . 4th ser., vol. 2 . Palermo.
6. Encyclopedia: A. A. . Vasiliev . Alexander Vasiliev (historian) . Brussels . 1935 . Chronique anonyme de Cambridge . Byzance et les Arabes . 1 . 342–46.