Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor


Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor is the designation used by modern scholarship for the anonymous 6th-century author who compiled a twelve-part history in the Syriac language around 569. It contains portions of the otherwise lost Ecclesiastical History of the real Zacharias Rhetor.
The history of Pseudo-Zacharias is found a single manuscript, now British Library Add MS 17202, dated to around 600. The title of the history as it appears in the manuscript is A Volume of Records of Events Which Have Happened in the World.
In addition to Zacharias Rhetor’s Ecclesiastical History, British Library Add MS 17202 also contains: