From Romanos’s appointment of Nikephoros as domestikos of the East after the conquest of Crete through the complete death notice of al-ʿAzīz, stopping before the al-Ḥākim heading.
353 numbered paragraphs, 153 printed-page anchors, textual notes, and glossary.
This is an editorially delimited portion of a continuous chronicle, not a separately headed Arabic work. It preserves the source’s sequence, dates, names, and qualifications; remaining textual and identification uncertainties appear in the normal notes and glossary.
