History of Mar Yahballaha and Three Other Patriarchs

see page 61, line 1 (1), and page 79, lines 5, 6 (2). As I have said above, the date of the book's composition and the place where it was written are not indicated. Judging by the author's own words on page 94 (3), it would seem that he was an eyewitness to the events that took place in Maragha on September 26 and 27, 1295. It is very likely that the book was composed in that city. Regarding the date of its writing, the mention that the Patriarch of the Nestorians a Christian sect associated with the Church of the East had his seat in Maragha during the author's time can provide a useful indication; the manuscript states this in plain letters; see page 123, lines 15–18 (4).

Currently, there are no united Chaldeans Eastern Catholics or Nestorians in Maragha. There are a few Armenian families. I have often heard Mar Icho-yab II, Archbishop of Khosrova, who died in the month of August 1859, say that his family was originally from Maragha; it later came to settle in Khosrova. It was in the time of his uncle, Mar Icho-yab (the first Catholic archbishop), who died in 1789, that Khosrova con-

Footnotes: (1) p. 66, l. 7–8. (2) p. 88, l. 1–4. (3) p. 103. (4) p. 136, l. 5–8.