The Chronicle of Edessa (Latin: Chronicon Edessenum) is an anonymous record of the history of Edessa written in the mid-6th century in the Syriac language. Chronicle of Edessa is a conventional title; in the manuscript it is titled Histories of Events in Brief.[lower-alpha 1] The Chronicle of Edessa is generally agreed to have been written around 540–550 CE.[lower-alpha 2] The Chronicle primarily used old Edessan royal archives as its source, as well as some more recent church records,[1] and accordingly is thought to be historically reliable.[2][3][4] It may have made use of a lost history of Persia.[5]