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Synoptic Chronicle

Σύνοψις Χρονική · Theodore Skoutariotes · c. 1280s (late 13th 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 search 'Theodore Skoutariotes' returns a single record, Sakel's study 'Theodore Skoutariotes and his Parekbolaia, or, how not to publish a Byzantine chronicle' (2019), which discusses the text and its botched 19th-century edition; no translation, English or other, appears in Harvard holdings.

World chronicle from creation to 1261, valuable precisely for the 1204-1261 period where it is an independent witness; survives only in the 19th-century Sathas text (Bibliotheca Graeca Medii Aevi VII), whose faults Sakel documents. Epitomator of Akropolites and source for the Palaiologan takeover.

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 — 1 candidate(s). Sathas prints the text anonymously as 'Σύνοψις Χρονική' (the string 'Σκουταριώτ' does not occur anywhere in the volume's text layer); the identification with Theodore Skoutariotes is the modern attribution, so the catalogue label must not be read into the printed title page. This is the same botched 19th-c. edition the dossier's Sakel reference criticises - the scan is usable for ingestion but the text needs the known corrections. DigiVatLib title search for 'Skoutariotes' and 'Σκουταριώτου' (k_f=3, with Referer) both return zero shelfmarks, so no digitised Vatican copy of the chronicle is discoverable by title; this was not pursued further because the edition scan is open and its text layer is good.

Scan / witnessFormatPagesRightsOCREvidence
K. N. Sathas, Μεσαιωνικὴ Βιβλιοθήκη (Bibliotheca Graeca Medii Aevi), vol. 7, Pa…
internet-archive · satha-mesaionike-bibliotheke
pdf949public-domaingoodItem https://archive.org/details/satha-mesaionike-bibliotheke -> 200; GET metadata -> 200, 79 files (7 volumes, each with .pdf, _djvu.txt, _jp2.zip, chOCR/hOCR). Volume 7 text derivative 'Satha, Mesaionike bibliotheke 7…

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: Theodore Skoutariotes — 3 record(s); match basis author_only.

RecordCitation
Theodore Skoutariotes and his Parekbolaia, or, how not to publish a Byzantine chronicle
Sakel, Dean · 2019 · eng, grc
Sakel, Dean. "Theodore Skoutariotes and his Parekbolaia, or, how not to publish a Byzantine chronicle." Thessaloniki : K & M Stamoulis Publications, John Arh. Harpantidis 2019. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99155293110403941
Romulus vu de Constantinople : la réécriture de la légende dans le monde byzantin : Jean Malalas et ses successeurs
Briquel, Dominique · 2018 · fre
Briquel, Dominique. "Romulus vu de Constantinople : la réécriture de la légende dans le monde byzantin : Jean Malalas et ses successeurs." Paris : Hermann, [2018]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153684503203941
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, “Synoptic Chronicle” (greek gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/greek-skoutariotes-synopsis-chronike