[continued] Hugh of Saint-Victor’s ‘Chronicle’ (De tribus maximis circumstantis gestorum): Restoration (Hebrew chronology)

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Continuation of Restauratio secundum Hebraicam ueritatem, ‘Restoration according to Hebrew truth’, in four columns headed (in red) by Ab initio (listing numbers of years ‘from the beginning’), homo (heading a list of personal names, beginning with Adam), genuit (‘begat’), and uixit (‘lived’).

The first seven lines run from Abraham to Moses. The four columns are then headed (in red) Ab initio (‘from the beginning’), iudices (‘judges’), prefuerunt (‘presided’, giving numbers of years) and ab Abraham, giving numbers of years ‘from Abraham’. Sixteen judges are listed from Moses to Samuel.

The four columns are then relabelled (in red) Ab initio (‘from the beginning’), reges (‘kings’), regnauerunt (‘ruled’) and ab Abraham, giving numbers of years ‘from Abraham’. Only one king, [S]aul, is listed before it is stated (in red ink) [T]ercia etas continens annos dcccc xl ii (‘The Third Age comprises 942 years’) across three columns; the fourth column is headed (in red) a Dauid (‘from David’). Five kings are listed ([D]auid, Salomon, Roboam, Abia, Asa). After David, the heading of a fifth column is added, Reges Ierosolim (‘kings of Jerusalem’); under this there are the names of three kings with a number each (the length of their reign).