[continued] Hugh of Saint-Victor’s ‘Chronicle’ (De tribus maximis circumstantis gestorum): Restoration (Hebrew chronology)
Unedited.
The lists of kings of Judah and Jerusalem continues in six columns: the first four columns are headed (in red) Ab initio (‘from the beginning’), Reges (‘kings’), regnauerunt (years ‘reigned’), and a Dauid (years ‘from David’). The fifth and sixth columns
have no heading: these continue the names of kings of Jerusalem and their
reign-lengths. Fifteen kings of Judah are listed, and sixteen kings of Jerusalem. A
later scribe has altered the ab initio figure in the first
column opposite Ioas king of Judah: this originally read m’.cc. (1200); the first c has been
erased and x added, changing the figure to m’.c.x (1110).
In line 16 it is stated (in red ink) Quarta etas continens annos cccclxxiii (‘The Fourth Age comprises 473
years’). From this point there are only four columns. Line 17 refers to the
Babylonian Exile; from line 18 the four columns are headed [A]b
initio (‘from the beginning’), Sacerdotes
(‘priests’), post trans and migrationem; the third column gives the number of years after the Exile,
and the fourth column the number of years each high priest was in office.
In the left margin the missing initial letters of [A]b initio and
the first high priest, [I]esus, have been supplied by a later
scribe.
[continued] Hugh of Saint-Victor’s ‘Chronicle’ (De tribus maximis circumstantis gestorum): Restoration (Hebrew chronology)
Unedited.
The lists of kings of Judah and Jerusalem continues in six columns: the first four columns are headed (in red) Ab initio (‘from the beginning’), Reges (‘kings’), regnauerunt (years ‘reigned’), and a Dauid (years ‘from David’). The fifth and sixth columns
have no heading: these continue the names of kings of Jerusalem and their
reign-lengths. Fifteen kings of Judah are listed, and sixteen kings of Jerusalem. A
later scribe has altered the ab initio figure in the first
column opposite Ioas king of Judah: this originally read m’.cc. (1200); the first c has been
erased and x added, changing the figure to m’.c.x (1110).
In line 16 it is stated (in red ink) Quarta etas continens annos cccclxxiii (‘The Fourth Age comprises 473
years’). From this point there are only four columns. Line 17 refers to the
Babylonian Exile; from line 18 the four columns are headed [A]b
initio (‘from the beginning’), Sacerdotes
(‘priests’), post trans and migrationem; the third column gives the number of years after the Exile,
and the fourth column the number of years each high priest was in office.
In the left margin the missing initial letters of [A]b initio and
the first high priest, [I]esus, have been supplied by a later
scribe.