[continued] Hugh of Saint-Victor’s ‘Chronicle’ (De tribus maximis circumstantis gestorum): Restoration (Hebrew chronology)
Unedited.
Continues with four columns headed ab initio (‘from the
beginning’), Sacerdotes (‘priests’), post trans and migrationem; the third column,
however, now gives the number of years each high priest was in office, and the
fourth column the years after the Exile (rather than the other way round, as in f. 5r. After listing eleven priests (finishing with Herodes rex, ‘King Herod’), it is stated (in red) [Q]uinta etas finitur continens annos dlxxxv (‘The Fifth Age is completed,
comprising 585 years’).
In the next line (in red) we are told: Iesus Christus filius dei in Bethleem Iude nascitur (‘Jesus Christ is born
in Bethlehem of Judea’). Herod and his successors, up to Agrippa rex, are listed in
the second column in next five lines; the first column continues with the total
number years from the beginning of Creation, the third column with each ruler’s
reign-length, and the fourth column the number of years since the birth of Christ
(although this is not stated explicitly).
This is followed in the next line (line
19) by a statement (in red): Hic Iudeorum regnum finitus est anno
iio Vespasiani et Titi imperatorum, post
natiuitatem Christi anno lxxiio (‘Here the
kingdom of the Jews came to an end in the second year of the emperors Vespasian and
Titus, and the 72nd year after the birth of Christ’).
This is followed by passages of explanatory prose and lists of non-Jewish rulers,
beginning [M]odo narrabo quemadmodum secundum prescriptam annorum
seriem, edited by Lars Boje Mortensen, ‘Hugh of St Victor on secular
history. A preliminary edition of chapters from his Chronica’,
Cahiers de l’Institut du Moyen-Âge Grec et Latin, 62 (1992) 3–30, 8–18. The
rest of f. 5v corresponds with what is found in p. 7 of Mortensen’s primary
MS (Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek Msc. Patr. 21, pp. 1–72; in his edition this is
collated with Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Codices latini monacenses 2, ff.
88r–111r): Mortensen, ‘Hugh of St Victor’, 8.
[continued] Hugh of Saint-Victor’s ‘Chronicle’ (De tribus maximis circumstantis gestorum): Restoration (Hebrew chronology)
Unedited.
Continues with four columns headed ab initio (‘from the
beginning’), Sacerdotes (‘priests’), post trans and migrationem; the third column,
however, now gives the number of years each high priest was in office, and the
fourth column the years after the Exile (rather than the other way round, as in f. 5r. After listing eleven priests (finishing with Herodes rex, ‘King Herod’), it is stated (in red) [Q]uinta etas finitur continens annos dlxxxv (‘The Fifth Age is completed,
comprising 585 years’).
In the next line (in red) we are told: Iesus Christus filius dei in Bethleem Iude nascitur (‘Jesus Christ is born
in Bethlehem of Judea’). Herod and his successors, up to Agrippa rex, are listed in
the second column in next five lines; the first column continues with the total
number years from the beginning of Creation, the third column with each ruler’s
reign-length, and the fourth column the number of years since the birth of Christ
(although this is not stated explicitly).
This is followed in the next line (line
19) by a statement (in red): Hic Iudeorum regnum finitus est anno
iio Vespasiani et Titi imperatorum, post
natiuitatem Christi anno lxxiio (‘Here the
kingdom of the Jews came to an end in the second year of the emperors Vespasian and
Titus, and the 72nd year after the birth of Christ’).
This is followed by passages of explanatory prose and lists of non-Jewish rulers,
beginning [M]odo narrabo quemadmodum secundum prescriptam annorum
seriem, edited by Lars Boje Mortensen, ‘Hugh of St Victor on secular
history. A preliminary edition of chapters from his Chronica’,
Cahiers de l’Institut du Moyen-Âge Grec et Latin, 62 (1992) 3–30, 8–18. The
rest of f. 5v corresponds with what is found in p. 7 of Mortensen’s primary
MS (Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek Msc. Patr. 21, pp. 1–72; in his edition this is
collated with Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Codices latini monacenses 2, ff.
88r–111r): Mortensen, ‘Hugh of St Victor’, 8.