Manuscript: Julius B. XIII

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Notes

1 DB: From now on the A for Anno changes to a simpler form that was also used for AD 65 and 74.
2 DB: The beginning of the annal for AD 117 is written in the line above (Beatus Quadratus…), continuing onto the next line (i.e., ęcclesiam grandi…).
3 DB: The scribe has used symbols (/.) to indicate an alternative word order: Beatus Aristides.
4 DB: Possibly the t is written over an erasure.
5 DB: Reading this as a monogram for Obiit.

Notes

1 DB: This refers to the legend of how Trajan was baptized (centuries after his death) by the tears shed by St Gregory, moved by Trajan’s concern while on campaign that a widow be compensated for the death of her son. See The Earliest Life of Gregory the Great, by an Anonymous Monk of Whitby, ed. Bertram Colgrave (Lawrence, Kan., 1968), pp. 126–9, 161–2; Colgrave remarks (at p. 161) that this story ‘was widely spread and gave rise to much discussion’.
2 DB: This brief comment anticipates the statement under AD 134 that Pope Sixtus was martyred in Hadrian’s time, as opposed to during the reign of Antonius Pius. Pope Sixtus is the only pope in this part of the Chronicle to be given a numeral; he is also ‘Sixtus I’ in AD 134.
3 DB: I.e., from Aelius (Hadrian’s first name).
4 DB: The martyrdom of St Eustace (surnamed Placidas), his wife Theopiste and sons Agapios and Theopistos is noted in only some versions of Usuard’s martyrology, not the two principal recensions (the martyrologies of Florus and Adon) used by Dubois in his edition: see Le Martyrologe d’Usuard. Texte et Commentaire, ed. Jacques Dubois (Brussels, 1965), pp. 143 and 334 (2 November).