The histories of Rabban Hôrmîzd the Persian and Rabban Bar-ʻIdtâ
Subtitle: the Syriac texts edited with English translations
By: by E. A. Wallis Budge.
Contributors: Shemʻon, Rabban Mar, 7th cent.; Abraham,  a priest.; Sargīs bar Waḥlē.
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Hormizd, Rabban, 7th cent.; Bar-ʻIdtâ, ca. 509-612.
Notes: Reprint of the 1902 ed. published by Luzac, London.
The life of Hôrmîzd was written by Rabban Mār Simon, the disciple of Mâr Yôzâdhâk. The life of Bar-ʻIdtâ was written by Abraham, a priest, at the command of ʻAbhd-Ishô, metropolitan of Adiabene, and is based upon that which was written by Mâr John, a disciple of Bar-ʻIdtâ, who flourished about A.D. 660.
Table of contents: title: [v. 1] The Syriac texts.; title: v. 2, pt. 1. English translations. pt. 2. The metrical life of Rabban Hôrmîzd by Mâr Sergius of Adhorbjaijan.