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Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor is the designation used by modern scholarship for the anonymous 6th-century author who compiled a twelve-part history in the Syriac language around 569. It contains portions of the otherwise lost Ecclesiastical History of the real Zacharias Rhetor.[1]
The history of Pseudo-Zacharias is found a single manuscript, on vellum, now British Library Add MS 17202, dated to around 600. The title of the history as it appears in the manuscript is A Volume of Records of Events Which Have Happened in the World.[2]
In addition to Zacharias Rhetor's Ecclesiastical History, British Library Add MS 17202 also contains:
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