A[nno] colxxxvo

A[nno] colxxxvio Origenes nascitur.

A[nno] colxxxviio ¶Hyreneus episcopus Lugdunensis discipulus beati Policarpi insignis habetur.

A[nno] colxxxviiio

A[nno] colxxxixo

A[nno] coxco

A[nno] coxcio

A[nno] cox\c/iio

A[nno] cox\c/iiio Lucio Antonino Commodo cum regnasset annis xiii post mortem patris successit Helyus Perti
nax, & regnat mensibus vii. Quo Iuliani iurisperiti scelere occiso regnat idem Iulianus mense uno;
A[nno] coxciiiio victo Iuliano a Seuero apud pontem Maluem bello ciuili, & interfecto idem Seuerus Perti
nax regnum optinuit xvii annis. Iste in Britannia magnum firmissimumque uallum crebris turribus
communitum per cxxii milia passuum, a mari ad mare duxit qui & Eboraci obiit.
A[nno] coxcvo

A[nno] coxvio1

A[nno] coxviio2 Eleutherio papa decedente, succedit Sanctus Uictor x annis iibus mensibus x diebus ponti
ficatum tenens. Hic datis late libellis constituit pascha die dominico celebrari, sicut & predeces
sor eius Eleutherius xiiiia luna, ibi mensis xxi.3 Cuius decretis fauens Theophiluus4 Ceraseę5 Palestinę
episcopus scripsit aduersus eos qui xiiiia luna pascha celebrabant, cum ceteris qui in eodem concilio aderant episcopis
synodicam & ualde utilem epistolam.
A[nno] coxcoviiio

A[nno] coxcixo
¶Clemens Alexandrine ęcclesię presbyter & Panthenus stoicus phylosophus disputa
cione nostri dogmatis disertissimi habentur. Narcissus Ierosolimorum episcopus & Theophilus Cesarien
sis Polica\r/pus quoque & Baculus Asyanę pruincię episcopi clari habentur. Persecutione in Christianos
plurimi per diuersas prouintias inter quos Leonides pater Origenis martyrio coronati
A[nno] coxc ¶sunt.

A[nno] cocoio

A[nno] ccoiio

Notes

1 DB: Read cxcvi. Further along this line, a hole in the parchment has been patched before the text-block was ruled.
2 DB: Read cxcvii.
3 DB: See comment on translation for discussion of this highly abbreviated statement about the date of Easter.
4 DB: Theophilum was apparently intended initially.
5 DB: Read Cesareę.
In the 185th year

In the 186th year Origen is born.

In the 187th year ¶Ireneus bishop of Lyon, disciple of the blessed Polycarp,1 is held in high regard.

In the 188th year

In the 189th year

In the 190th year

In the 191st year

In the 192nd year

In the 193rd year, when Lucius Antoninus Commodus had reigned 13 years after the death of his father, Helius Pertinax succeeded, and reigns for 7 months. After he was killed by the crime of Julian the jurist, the same Julian reigns for one month.
In the 194th year, after Julian was defeated at the Milvian Bridge by Severus in a civil war,2 and slain, the same Severus Pertinax possessed the realm for 17 years. In Britain he constructed a great and most secure structure, fortified with frequent towers, for 122,000 steps from sea to sea; and he died at York.
In the 195th year

In the 116th year3

In the 117th year, after Pope Eleutherius is taken away, St Victor succeeded, holding the papacy for 10 years, 2 months [and] 10 days. After documents had been issued extensively, he determined that Easter is to be celebrated on a Sunday, just as his predecessor Eleutherius: the 14th moon at that point of the month 21.4 Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea5 of Palestine, approving these decrees of Victor, wrote a synodical and powerfully effective letter against those who were celebrating Easter on the 14th moon, with the other bishops who were present at the same council.
In the 198th year

In the 199th year
¶Clement, priest of the church of Alexandria and Panthenus the Stoic philosopher debated our clearest doctrine. Narcissus bishop of Jerusalem and Theophilus of Caesarea and also Polycarp and Bacchylus were regarded outstanding bishops of the Asian province. In the persecution against Christians very many throughout different provinces, among them Leonidas father of Origen, were crowned with ¶martyrdom.
In the 200th year

In the 201st year

In the 202nd year  

Notes

1 DB: CM (ed. Mommsen, §335) does not refer to Ireneus as Polycarp’s disciple. It is found in Rufinus (trans. Amidon, 201).
2 DB: The idea that Severus became emperor by winning the Battle of the Milvian Bridge has been inherited from CM (ed. Mommsen, §338). It is true not of Severus, but Constantine the Great (in the year 312).
3 DB: A c has been omitted in this and the next year number, turning 196th and 197th into 116th and 117th respectively. Further along this line, a hole in the parchment has been patched before the text-block was ruled. Perhaps the patched hole distracted the scribe in some way: he also made a slip with year numbers at the same point in the verso (see AD 212).
4 DB: This is an abbreviated version of the already compressed statement in CM (ed. Mommsen, §339): a xiiiia luna primi mensis usque in xxi, that Easter is on the Sunday ‘from the 14th moon of the first month continuing from on the 21st (of the first month)’. In other words, it is stated that Easter falls on the Sunday after the 14th moon in March (the ‘first month’), beginning on 21 March (i.e., Easter cannot be earlier than 21 March).
5 DB: Ceraseę in the Latin text.