163).[6][7] This manuscript, from the Syrian Convent of Our Lady in the Wadi El Natrun,[5] was acquired by Giuseppe Simone Assemani during a trip to the Near East from 1715–1717 taken at the request of Pope Clement XI.[6] The lost full version of the text—sometimes called the Original Chronicle of Edessa—was occasionally excerpted in other Syriac chronicles.[7]