¹ DB: If this is a reference to Hannibal (the most famous Hannibal being the Carthaginian general who lived about four centuries earlier, who could have been known via versions of Livy’s history of Rome), it is the result of a misreading. In CM (ed. Mommsen, §326) the sentence reads: Bellum deinde contra Parthos ammirabili uirtute et felicitate gesserunt, ‘Next, a war was waged against the Parthians with wonderful bravery and success’. At some stage ammirabili has become hannibalis (i.e., Hannibalis).

² DB: I.e., on the headless Colossus. The sentence is exactly as in CM (ed. Mommsen, §336), and not abbreviated in any way.

³ DB: This is not a cross-reference to Hugh of St Victor’s chronology given earlier in the manuscript: at f. 29v Eleutherius succeeds Soter in AD 184, and reigns for 15 years, 6 months and 5 or 6 days.