The history of Yaballaha III, Nestorian patriarch, and of his vicar, Bar Sauma, Mongol ambassador to the Frankish courts at the end of the thirteenth century / translated from the Syriac and annotated by James A. Montgomery ...

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Montgomery, James.
• Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

• Records of civilization, sources and studies ; 8.
• Records of civilization: sources and studies ; 8.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Yahb-alāhā III, patriarch of th Nestorians, 1244-1317.
• Saumā, rabbn, -1293.
• Church of the East members.
• Assyrian Church of the East members.

Physical Description:

5 preliminary leaves, 82 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia university press, 1927.

Notes:

• This translation follows the text of Paul Bedjan's edition of the Syriac manuscript published in 1895. cf. Introd.
• "The present translator has limited his task to the first half of the biography (99 out of 205 printed pages)."--p. 24.
• Voyages and travels.

OCLC:

3173967