The logothete, reworked

Two years ago Juan Signes Codoñer and Michael Featherstone published ten episodes in "Pseudo-Symeon", now on academia.edu. This concerns manuscript Paris BnF greek 1712. The essay argues that this reworks the end of a "Logothete Chronicle"; with aims to create a "new" chronicle, from the beginning of the Cosmos, and Adam.

So far, so much like the AD-846's rework of Syriac chronicle AD-819. Except that AD-846 was, I think, finished; #1712 looks like "Pseudo-Symeon" wasn't. There it's more like the Zuqnîn.

Also, #1712 is synoptic with Theophilus Continuatus, but here - the authors argue - neither used the other. They both took, independently, anecdotes from a (thriving) Palace.

So: what did #1712 use, before the Macedonian period - which it summarises, to add more lore? I, uh... don't know directly. Few of us know. Not only wasn't #1712 finished at the time, but it's not edited now. Far as I know, it's only used as a witness to the state of the texts before it. I'm reliant on Wiki.

As to these precurrent texts, besides the Logothete: Theophanes, George Hamartolos ["sinner"; i.e. the monk], John Malalas and John of Antioch. Students of Late Antiquity will observe we already own all the above excepting maybe John Antiochene. So if anyone ever does bother publishing this (I suspect AI will be doing this job) it won't help Dark-Age bros like myself.

It may however tell us something about the Macedonians' presentation of antiquity. The paper argues for Nicephorus II Phocas, who could pretend to be the new Justinian.