Open Chronicles

Corrections

Every Open Chronicles edition is versioned. Errors are corrected in new versions and logged here.

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If you find a mistake in any published edition — a mistranslation, a wrong name, date, or number, a typographical fault, a broken reference — please report it on the project's issue tracker (a free GitHub account is required), or email paul@openchronicles.org.

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Substantive corrections are verified against the source witnesses before they are applied. Corrected editions receive a new version number; the change is recorded below, and the edition's colophon is updated to show the current version.

Errata log

Volume 7 — Aristakes Lastivertsi, History

Source-faithful translation (The History of Aristakes Lastivertsi): version 1.0.2, published 2026-09-16 (1.0.1, 2026-09-16, and 1.0.0, 2026-09-13, superseded). Narrative reader’s edition (The History of Aristakes Lastivertsi): version 1.0.0, published 2026-09-16. No errata recorded against the reader’s edition.

Source-faithful translation (The History of Aristakes Lastivertsi) — 1.0.1 → 1.0.2, 2026-09-16. One back-of-book note, and nothing else. The date note on four years at printed p. 40 ll. 19–20 broke off after the abbreviation “i.e.”, so that it announced a variant reading in the 1963 edition’s apparatus and then stopped before saying what the variant is. It is completed from the project’s own chronology record, which carries the sentence entire: manuscripts B and C read the numeral three where the printed text reads չորս (four), the exclamation mark is the 1963 editor’s own, and Constantine VIII’s reign is usually reckoned at about three years. The printed four still stands in the translation, as this edition’s stated policy requires; the variant is recorded, not adopted. Nothing else on the line was edited, and no other note, no word of the translated text and no reading of the Armenian is changed.

Source-faithful translation (The History of Aristakes Lastivertsi) — 1.0.0 → 1.0.1, 2026-09-16. Five defects in the back-of-book notes and in the page markup, none of them touching the chronicle’s running text. In the notes, seven stray backtick characters on six lines were corrected: six stood where the transliteration aspirate belongs and had been swallowing the mark and mis-scoping the Armenian span, so that Dawitʻ of Dvin, Dawitʻ son of Senekʻerim, Seaw Kʻar, Senekʻerim and zgayiosutʻiwn printed wrongly; the seventh stood where an Armenian comma belongs inside an Ezekiel incipit. One glossary note on zgayiosutʻiwn, which had been cut off mid-sentence at “apparatus at p.”, is restored in full from the project’s own terminology record. In the markup, a contents link to the authorial colophon pointed at an anchor that was never emitted, and twenty-one note subheadings shared duplicated HTML ids; both are repaired. Fifteen English possessive apostrophes had been stripped out of the notes by the processing that compiled them, leaving readings such as Gagik wife, Dawit father, Petros sister son and the author own; all fifteen are restored, on fourteen lines, each against the edition’s own running text or index headword for the relationship it states. Nothing else on those lines was edited. No word of the translated text, and no reading of the Armenian, is changed.

Volume 6 — Robert the Monk, Historia Iherosolimitana

Source-faithful translation (Historia Iherosolimitana / The History of Jerusalem): version 1.0.0, published 2026-09-13. Narrative reader’s edition (The History of Jerusalem): version 1.0.0, published 2026-09-13. No errata recorded.

Volume 5 — John the Oxite, Speech 1

Source-faithful translation (Speech 1 to Emperor Alexios Komnenos) and lightened reader’s edition (John the Oxite — Speech 1): version 1.0.0, published 2026-08-01. No errata recorded.

Volume 4 — Gesta Francorum

Source-faithful translation (The Deeds of the Franks): version 1.0.0, published 2026-08-01. No errata recorded.

Volume 3 ? Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṭākī, The Eastern Frontier, 961–996

Source-faithful translation: version 1.0.0, published 2026-07-31. No errata recorded.

Volume 2 — Yaḥyā al-Anṭākī on al-Ḥākim

Source-faithful translation (The Caliphate of al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh, 996–1021): version 1.0.0, published 2026-07-22. No errata recorded.

Volume 1 — Peter Tudebode

Source-faithful translation (The Journey to Jerusalem): version 1.0.0, unchanged.

Reader's edition (The Road to Jerusalem) — 1.0.0 → 1.1.0, 2026-07-17. An editorial-voice revision. The chronicle's own text — its events, numbers, speeches, dates, and religious language — is unchanged; the corrections are to editorial matter written in the editor's voice (the afterword, the adaptation note, and a few narrative asides).

Reader's edition — 1.1.0 → 1.1.1, 2026-07-17. A prose clarification of the afterword and one Chapter 14 sentence. The Pelagonia fortress burning remains accurately narrated in Chapter 3; the afterword no longer compresses it into a clause that could be misread as a church massacre. The afterword's closing is split into shorter paragraphs; Kerbogha's grievance is correctly attributed to his camp speech (not an oath); both cause-quotations match the source-faithful translation; and Chapter 14 restores the source's "fifty or sixty" and a cleaner attribution ("as the chronicle puts it").

Reader's edition — 1.1.1 → 2.0.0, 2026-07-22. Major narrative refresh. The continuous story is now the Tudebode_v3 recast: a more direct participant voice, sixteen narrative chapters (re-split middle campaign), and a fuller Holy Places appendix. Product scaffolding from 1.1.1 is retained (adaptation note, Principal Figures, Lands of the Journey, afterword, end notes). No dialogue or events invented; medieval religious and military language is not sanitized. Source-faithful translation remains 1.0.0 (translation text unchanged; its editorial episode guide now follows the same sixteen-chapter map).