the pretended author of a Spanish chronicle of the Conquest of Spain by the Arabs, long supposed to be a translation from the Arabic, and used as such by Mariana and others in writing their histories, but now proved to be spurious.

ABULFARAGIUS, Gregory, son of Aaron, a physician, born in 1226, in the city of Malatia, near the source of the Euphrates in Armenia. He at first followed the profession of his father, and practised with great success; but he acquired a higher reputation by the study of the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic languages, as well as by his knowledge of philosophy and divinity. He wrote a history in Arabic, which does great honour to his memory. It is divided into dynasties, and consists of ten parts, forming an epitome of universal history from the creation of the world to his own time. The parts of it relating to the Saracens, Tartar Moguls, and the conquests of Jenghis Khan, are esteemed the most valuable. He was bishop of Guha and then of Aleppo. About 1266, being elected primate of the Jacobites in the East, he held that dignity till his death in 1286. His contemporaries speak of him in a strain of most extravagant panegyric. He is styled the king of the learned, the pattern of his times, the phoenix of the age, and the crown of the virtuous. Dr Pococke published his history with a Latin translation in 1663, in two vols. 4to.