Pseudo-Simeon

 ( Pseudepigraphy ) 

Pseudo-Simeon (or Pseudo-Symeon Magistros) is the conventional name given to the anonymous author of a late 10th-century Byzantine Greek language chronicle which survives in a single codex, Parisinus Graecus 1712, copied in the 12th or 13th century.

It is a universal history from the creation of the world to the year 963.Herbert Hunger: Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft, XII. Byzantinisches Handbuch. 5,1. Philosophie, Rhetorik, Epistolographie, Geschichtsschreibung, Geographie, C. H. Beck, Munich 1978, pp. 355 ff. His main sources are Theophanes the Confessor and Symeon Logothete. For the years up to 812, he uses Theophanes, George Hamartolos, John Malalas and John of Antioch. For later years, he uses parts of Joseph Genesius and the anonymous Chronicle on Leo the Armenian. He made use of a lost Photian schism tract that was also used by Niketas David Paphlagon.

George Kedrenos used Pseudo-Simeon as the model for his own chronicle up to the year 812. In the 14th century, the chronicle was translated into Old Slavonic.

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External links

• Parisinus Graecus 1712 — online facsimiles from the Bibliothèque nationale de France

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