CHAPTER LI.
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THE NAMES OF THE EASTERN CATHOLICS, THE SUCCESSORS OF THE APOSTLES ADDAI AND MÂRÎ1.
1. Addai was buried in Edessa.
2. Mârî (was buried) in the convent of Kônî2.
3. Abrîs, called in Greek A[m]brosius; the place of his grave is unknown; he was of the laying on of hands of Antioch.
4. Abraham was of the laying on of hands of Antioch; he was descended from the family of Jacob the son of Joseph; his grave is in Ctesiphon.
5. James, of the laying on of hands of Antioch, was also of the family of Joseph the husband of Mary; his grave is in Ctesiphon.
6. Ahâ-d´abû[hî] was of the laying on of hands of Antioch; his grave is in Ctesiphon.
7. Shahlûphâ was of the laying on of hands of Ctesiphon, and he was buried there.
8. Pâpâ; his grave is at Ctesiphon.
9. Simon bar Sabbâ`ê was martyred at Shôshân.
10. Shah-dôst was buried in Ctesiphon.
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11. Bar-Be`esh-shemîn1 was martyred and buried in Elam (Khûzistân).
12. Tûmarsâ was buried in Ctesiphon.
13. Kâyômâ was buried in Ctesiphon; he abdicated the patriarchate, and another was put in his place, and was before him until he died.
14. Isaac was buried in Ctesiphon.
15. Ahâ was buried in Ctesiphon.
16. Yab-alâhâ was of the school of Mâr `Abdâ2; he was buried in Ctesiphon.
17. Ma`nâ dwelt in Persia and was buried there.
18. Dâd-îshô` was buried in Hêrtâ3. In his days the strife between Nestorius and Cyril (of Alexandria) took place.
19. Bâbôi was martyred and buried in Hêrtâ.
20. Akak (Acacius) was of the family of Bâbôi the Catholicus; he was buried in al-Madâïn4.
21. Bâbai took a wife, and was buried at Ctesiphon,
22. Shîlâ took a wife, and was buried in his convent beside Awânâ5.
23. Paul was buried in Ctesiphon.
24. Mâr(î)-abâ was buried in Hêrtâ, and was a martyr without bloodshed.
25. Ezekiel was buried in Hêrtâ.
26. Îshô`-yab of Arzôn6 was buried in Hêrtâ.
27. Sabr-îshô` was buried in Hêrtâ.
28. Gregory was buried in . . . . . .
29. Îshô`-yab of Gedâlâ7 was buried in . . . . . .
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30. Mâr[î]-emmêh was buried in Ketîmiyâ (?).
31. Îshô`-yab of Adiabene1 was buried in Bêth-`Âbê2.
32. George was buried in . . . . . .
33. John was buried in . . . . . .
34. Henân-îshô` was buried in . . . . . .
35. Selîbâ-zekhâ was buried in Ctesiphon.
36. Pethiôn was buried in Ctesiphon.
37. Mâr[î]-abâ was buried in al-Madâïn.
38. Jacob was buried in . . . . . .
39. Henân-îshô` was buried in . . . . . .
40. Timothy was buried in his own convent.
41. Îshô` (Joshua) the son of Nôn (Nun) was buried in the convent of Timothy.
42. George was buried in the same convent.
43. Sabr-îshô`3 was buried in the same convent.
44. Abraham was buried in the same convent.
45. Athanasius4 was buried in the same convent.
46. Sergius was buried in the same convent.
47. Anôsh (Enos) was buried in the same convent.
48. John the son of Narsai was buried in the Greek Palace (at Baghdâd)5.
49. Joannes6 was buried in the Greek Palace.
50. John was buried in the Greek Palace.
51. Abraham was buried in the convent of `Abdôn.
52. Emmanuel was buried in the Greek Palace.
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53. Israel was buried in the Greek Palace.
54. `Abd-îshô` was buried in the Greek Palace.
55. Mârî was buried in the Greek Palace.
56. Joannes1 was buried in the Greek Palace.
57. John was buried in the Greek Palace.
58. Îshô`-yab was buried in the Grek Palace.
59. Elijah (Elîyâ) was buried in the Greek Palace.
60. John was buried in the Greek Palace.
61. Sabr-îshô` was buried in the Greek Palace.
62. `Abd-îshô` was buried in the Greek Palace.
63. Makkîkhâ was buried in the Greek Palace.
64. Elijah (Elîyâ) was buried in the Greek Palace.
65. Bar-saumâ was buried in the Greek Palace.
66. `Abd-îshô` was buried . . . . . .
67. Îshô`-yab was buried in the church of Mâr Sabr-îshô`.
68. Elijah (Elîyâ) was buried in the church of Mâr Sabr-îshô`.
69. Yab-alâhâ was buried in the church of Mârt[î] Maryam (my lady Mary).
70. Sabr-îshô` was buried in the church of Mârt[î] Maryam2.
71. Sabr-îshô` was buried3 . . . . . .
72. [Mâr Makkîkhâ was buried . . . . . .
73. Mâr Denhâ was buried . . . . . .
74. Mâr Yab-alâhâ the Turk5 was buried . . . . . .
75. Mâr Timothy was buried . . . . . .
76. Mâr Denhâ was buried . . . . . .
77. Mâr Simon was buried . . . . . .
78. Mâr Elijah (Elîyâ) was buried . . . . . .
79. Mâr Simon of our days, may he live for ever!6]
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The names of the Catholics who were deposed and dismissed (from office): Mâr(î)-bôkht, Narsai, Elisha, Joseph and Sôrên.
Footnotes
1 Compare the lists in Assemânî, Bibl. Orient., t. ii, pp. 387-392. For the lives of the Catholics of the East, see ibid., pp. 391-457.
2 In Arabic Dair Kunnâ; 16 parasangs from Baghdâd, on the left bank of the Tigris, a mile from the river. See Yâkût in the Mu`jam al-Buldân; Abbeloos, Acta S. Maris, index.
1 Be`esh-shemîn for Be`êl-shemîn.
2 See Assemânî, Bibl. Orient., t. iii, pt. i, p. 369, col. 2.
3 Hêrtâ or Hîrtâ, the Hîrah of the Arabs.
4 The later Arabic name for Ctesiphon.
5 A place in the south or south-east part of the diocese of Bêth-Nûhâdrê, near Balad and opposite to Eski-Mosul. See Assemânî, Bibl. Orient., t. iii, pt. i, p. 477, col. 2; and Hoffmann, Auszüge aus syr. Akten pers. Märtyrer, pp. 211-212, notes 1674 and foll.
6 ’Αρζανηνή {Greek: 'Arzanhnh} was a town and province of Armenia on the borders of Mesopotamia, north of Hisn Kaifâ. Schoenfelder, p. 84, writes 'Jesujab mysticus!'
7 Judâl, near Mosul.
1 In Syriac Hedaiyab, the district of which Arbêl or Irbil is the chief town.
2 The famous convent of Bêth-`Âbê was situated in the diocese of Margâ not far from the right bank of the Great Zâb. See Hoffmann, Auszüge, p. 226, note 1798.
3 Or Henân-îshô`.
4 Or Theodosius.
5 Dârtâ-de-Rômâyê, 'the house of the Romans' (the Byzantine Greeks), the seat of the Nestorian patriarchs at Baghdâd. See Assemânî, Bibl. Orient., t. ii, pp. 439, 440, 450.
6 Assemânî, ’Ιωάννης {Greek: 'Iwánnhs}; otherwise our writer commonly uses Yohannân for John.
1 See note 6 on preceding page.
2 The MS. A has in `Atîkah, or 'the old (Town),' a quarter of Baghdâd on the east or left side of the Tigris.
3 This is from A alone, but correct.
5 See Assemânî, Bibl. Orient., t. ii, p. 456.
6 According to Assemânî, t. ii, p. 457, col. 1, Bibl. Orient., t. iii, pt. i, p. 621, col. 1, he was ordained Catholicus in 1504. The list has therefore been continued by the scribes of the different MSS. long after Solomon's time.
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