[Anno] xxo

[Anno] xxio

[Anno] xxiio

[Anno] xxiiio

[Anno] xxiiiio

[Anno] xxvo

[Anno] xxvio

[Anno] xxviio Pilatus a Tyberio Cesare Iudeam directus procurator eiusdem regionis efficitur;

[Anno] xxviiio

[Anno] xxixo Herodes tetrarcham honorem Tyberii Cesaris & matris eius Libie Tyberiadem condidit
¶& Libiadem ciuitates;
[Anno] xxxo

[Anno] xxxio Iohannes Zacharię filius filium dei baptizat in Iordane.

[Anno] xxxiio

[Anno] xxxiiio Iohannes baptista & precursor1 Domini ab Herode te\t/rarcha decollatur.

[Anno] xxxiiiio Iudei sub Pontio Pilato preside - Christum cruci affigunt, qui & resurgens a mortuis
die tercia uictor ascendit cęlos die suę ascensionis, mittens in discipulos specialem paraclitum die Pentecostes. Apostoli predicaturi uerbum Domini per Iudeę regiones Iacobum fratrem Domini Ierosolimis ordinant, & viitem
[Anno] xxxvo Beatissimus Christi prothomartir Stephanus a Iudeis lapidatus, ¶diacones.
& ęcclesia per regiones Iudeę & Samarię dispergitur.
[Anno] xxxvio Saulus qui & Paulus iter faciens & appropinquans Damasco persecutionem exercens in
Christianos subito lumine cęlesti territus & cecatus, statim uas electionis a Domino eligitur, & toto corde ad
[Anno] xxxviio ¶Dominum conuertitur.

[Anno] xxxviiio

[Anno] xxxixo Tyberio Cesari cum regnasset annis xxiii Gaius cognomento Caligula successit, qui regna
uit annis tribus & plusquam dimidio. Eius temporibus Matheus in Iudea scripsit euangelium;
[Anno] xlo Agrippa cognomento Herodes filius Aristoboli filii Herodis primi - accusato apud Gaium.

Notes

1 DB: This is an instance when pre- is spelt out. It is notable because of this scribe’s otherwise frequent use of ‘tailed e’. See the editorial principles for further discussion.
In the 20th [year]

In the 21st [year]

In the 22nd [year]

In the 23rd [year]

In the 24th [year]

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In the 26th [year]

In the 27th [year] Pilate was sent by Tiberius Caesar to Judea: he is made governor of that region.

In the 28th [year]

In the 29th [year] Herod the tetrarch founds the cities of Tiberias and Livias in honour of Tiberius Caesar ¶and his mother Livia.

In the 30th [year]

In the 31st [year] John son of Zacharias baptised the son of God in the Jordan.

In the 32nd [year]

In the 33rd [year] John the Baptist, and precursor of the Lord, is beheaded by Herod the tetrarch.

In the 34th [year] the Jews, under Pontius Pilate as governor, fixed Christ to a cross, who indeed rose up from the dead on the third day, ascending victorious to the heavens on the day of his ascension, sending the Holy Spirit upon the disciples on the day of Pentecost. The apostles, with the aim of preaching the word of the Lord throughout the regions of Judea, ordained James brother of the Lord [bishop]1 of Jerusalem, and seven ¶deacons.
In the 35th [year] Stephen, the most blessed proto-martyr of Christ, was stoned by the Jews, and the church is scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria.
In the 36th [year] Saul, who is also Paul, making a journey and approaching Damascus, carrying out the [policy of] persecution against Christians—suddenly awestruck and blinded with a heavenly light—is selected at once by the Lord as [His] chosen instrument,2 and with his whole heart ¶is converted to the Lord.
In the 37th [year]

In the 38th [year]

In the 39th [year], when Tiberius Caesar had reigned for 23 years, Gaius surnamed Caligula succeeded [as emperor], who reigned for three years and more than a half. In his time Matthew wrote a gospel in Judea.
In the 40th [year] Agrippa surnamed Herod son of Aristobulus, son of Herod I, is appointed to the kingdom of the Jews after

Notes

1 DB: Episcopum (‘bishop’) has been omitted, or is taken to be understood: CM (ed. Mommsen, §274) includes ‘bishop’ (Iacobum fratrem Domini Hierosolimis ordinant episcopum).
2 DB: Uas electionis (Christ’s ‘chosen instrument’) derives ultimately from Acts 9:15: Dixit autem ad eum Dominus: Uade, quoniam uas electionis est mihi iste, ut portet nomen meum coram gentibus, et regibus, et filiis Israel, ‘Then the Lord said to him [Ananias]: Go, for this one is an instrument chosen by me to convey my name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel’: http://www.sacredbible.org/studybible/NT-05_Acts.htm#9, [accessed 17 April 2023]. It would have been well known as a phrase applied to St Paul in particular (for example, in chants on his feast day or the feast of his conversion: this accounts for nearly all the 49 examples listed in the Cantus Index (Online Catalogue for Mass and Office Chants), searching ‘vas electionis’: https://cantusindex.org/ [accessed 16 May 2023].