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Chronicle

Βίβλος Χρονική · Michael Glykas · c. 1150-1170s (12th c.) · chronicle

Greek · domain: historiography · researched 2026-11-13

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS author search 'Glykas' (49 hits) and 'Michael Glykas chronicle English' (0 relevant) return Bekker's CSHB edition (1836, Greek-Latin), the 1660 Paris Greek-Latin edition, Greek monographs and a critical edition of his verse (Tsolakis, 1959) — no English translation.

World chronicle from creation to the death of Alexios I (1118), written in prison; notable for its theological excursus and for the author's own voice. No modern-language translation of the whole chronicle was located.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

No open electronic text was verified for this work. The Greek/Coptic/Geʿez may exist only in a print or subscription edition (Migne, CSCO, TLG, CMCL).

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: open scan — 2 candidate(s). The Bekker CSHB edition is the usable scan (real Greek OCR, ~8.6% function-word rate) and should be preferred over Migne for ingestion. PG 158 reprints the 1729 Venice Greek-Latin edition but its text layer is Latin-only, so it is an image-only fallback. A third copy, the 1660 Paris editio princeps (A212102, Greek-Latin), is on IA and downloaded fine (HTTP 200 metadata) but its text quality was not sampled.

Scan / witnessFormatPagesRightsOCREvidence
Michaelis Glycae Annales, rec. Immanuel Bekker (Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byz…
internet-archive · bub_gb_uR4AAAAAYAAJ
pdf666public-domaingooddjvu.txt HTTP 200 (2.41 MB). 33% Greek code points over the whole file; in a 9k-char window at char 640,000 the Greek column scores 0.46 script ratio and 8.6% function-word rate (καί, τοῦ, τῆς ...). Sample reads cleanly…
Patrologia Graeca, tomus 158 (Migne) — file 158.pdf
internet-archive · patrologia-volumes
pdf694public-domainnone158_djvu.txt HTTP 206; volume index line 91 'MICHAEL GLYCA' and line 254 'Michaelis Glycae Annalium pars I'; running heads 'MICHAELIS GLYCA' from line 17269. 0 Greek code points in 768,781 chars sampled. Page image chec…

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Michael Glykas Chronicle — 3 record(s); match basis author_title.

RecordCitation
Chronicle of Michael Glykas
Glykas, Michael 12th cent · 1289 ·
Glykas, Michael 12th cent. "Chronicle of Michael Glykas." 1289. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/via/olvwork175190/catalog
A companion to Byzantine chronicles
· 2025 · eng
"A companion to Byzantine chronicles." Leiden : Brill, [2025]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158348810203941
Guide to Byzantine historical writing
Neville, Leonora Alice, 1970- · 2018 · eng
Neville, Leonora Alice, 1970-. "Guide to Byzantine historical writing." Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, [2018]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153687106203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Chronicle” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-glykas-biblos-chronike