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chronicle covering the years 827–965. It is the earliest native Sicilian chronicle of the

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, and was written from the perspective of a Sicilian Christian of the 10th or 11th century. It survives in two versions: a

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version in two manuscripts and an

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version in one. For years only the Arabic text kept in

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was known, but in 1890 a Greek redaction was discovered. The Greek texts are found in the

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and the

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(Codex Parisinus Graecus 920). It has been translated into English, Italian and French.

Editions

*In ''Biblioteca arabo-sicula'', 2nd revised edition, U. Rizzitano, A. Borruso, M. Cassarino and A. De Simone (eds.), 2 vols and appendix, Palermo 1982. vol. 1, pp. 277–93. *In ''Biblioteca arabo-sicula'', 2nd revised edition, M. Amari and U. Rizzitano (eds.), 2 vols, Palermo 1987–88. vol. 1, pp. 190–203.

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