Jerome – Chronicle
| Document: | Chronicle (updated version of Eusebius’ Chronicle) |
| Reference: | CPL 615c (CPG 3494) |
| Date: | c. 380 (Kelly, p. 33) |
| Incipit: | Vetus iste disertorum mos |
| Addressees: | Vincentius and Gallienus |
| Earliest ms.: | Codex Oxoniensis Bodleianus Lat. auct. T II 26 (Fifth century) |
| Latin Text: | Rudolf Helm. Die Chronik des Hieronymus = Hieronymi Chronicon, GCS 47=Eusebius’ Werke 7 (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1956).The electronic Patrologia Latina Database text corrected against the edition of J. K. Fotheringham: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_04_latin_prefaces.htm |
| English Translation: | Online collaborative translation led by Roger Pearse: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_00_eintro.htm Includes an introduction.Preface tranlated by Stephan Rebenich, (see abbreviations), pp. 75-78.Malcolm Drew Donalson. A translation of Jerome’s Chronicon with historical commentary (Lewiston: Mellen University Press, 1996) |
| Notes: | This was a history from Abraham to Jerome’s own day. Jerome’s work was a translation and revision of Eusebius of Caesarea’s Chronicon.Preface translated by W.H. Fremantle, “Preface to the Chronicle of Eusebius” in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), pp. 483-84. |
| Bibliography: | Brugnoli, Curiosissimus Excerptor: Gli Additamenta di Girolamo ai Chronica di Eusebio (Pisa 1995) comments on the text of Helm. |
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