Pseudo-Simeon (or Pseudo-Symeon Magistros) is the conventional name given to the anonymous author of a late 10th-century

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chronicle which survives in a single

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, Parisinus Graecus 1712, copied in the 12th or 13th century. It is a

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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 Theophanes the Confessor (; 759 – 817 or 818) was a member of the Byzantine aristocracy who became a monk and chronicler. He served in the court of Emperor Leo IV the Khazar before taking up the religious life. Theophanes attended the Second C ...

and

Symeon Logothete Symeon Logothete (or Symeon Magister) was a 10th-century Byzantine Greek historian and poet. Symeon wrote a world chronicle that goes from Creation to the year 948.It has been misattributed to one Theodosius of Melitene and also to Leo Grammati ...

. For the years up to 812, he uses Theophanes,

George Hamartolos George Hamartolos or Hamartolus () was a monk at Constantinople under Michael III (842–867) and the author of a chronicle of some importance. Hamartolus is not his name but the epithet he gives to himself in the title of his work: "A compendiou ...

John Malalas John Malalas (; ; – 578) was a Byzantine chronicler from Antioch in Asia Minor. Life Of Syrian descent, Malalas was a native speaker of Syriac who learned how to write in Greek later in his life. The name ''Malalas'' probably derive ...

and John of Antioch. For later years, he uses parts of

Joseph Genesius Genesius (, ''Genesios''; ) is the conventional name given to the anonymous Byzantine author of Armenian origin of the tenth century chronicle, ''On the reign of the emperors''. His first name is sometimes given as Joseph, combining him with a "Jose ...

and the anonymous ''Chronicle'' on Leo the Armenian. He made use of a lost anti-Photian tract that was also used by

Niketas David Paphlagon Niketas David Paphlagon (), also known as Nicetas the Paphlagonian or Nicetas of Paphlagonia, was a prolific Byzantine Greek writer of the late 9th and early 10th century. Older scholarship dated Niketas' death to about 890, but more recent researc ...

George Kedrenos George Kedrenos, Cedrenus or Cedrinos (, fl. 11th century) was a Byzantine Greek historian. In the 1050s he compiled ''Synopsis historion'' (also known as ''A concise history of the world''), which spanned the time from the biblical account of cre ...

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

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Parisinus Graecus 1712
— online facsimiles from the

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