Hugh of Saint-Victor’s ‘Chronicle’ (De tribus maximis circumstantis gestorum): Creation
Lines 1–7, central two columns: the seven days of
creation (summarising the Book of Genesis, chapter 1).
Edited by G. A. Zinn, Jr., ‘The Influence of Hugh of St. Victor’s Chronicon on the
Abbreviationes Chronicorum by Ralph of Diceto’, Speculum 52 (1977) 38–61, at 44.
Hugh of Saint-Victor’s ‘Chronicle’ (De tribus maximis circumstantis gestorum): Restoration (Hebrew chronology)
Unedited.
Four columns, introduced (in red ink) as Restauratio secundum
Hebraicam ueritatem, ‘Restoration according to Hebrew truth’, headed 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’).
After eleven lines of names and figures, it is stated (in red ink)
[P]rima etas continens annos imdclv (‘The First Age comprises 1,655 years’).
After nine more lines of names and figures, it is stated (in red ink, in the last line of the page) Secunda etas continens annos ccxcii (‘The Second Age
comprises 292 years’).
Hugh of Saint-Victor’s ‘Chronicle’ (De tribus maximis circumstantis gestorum): Creation
Lines 1–7, central two columns: the seven days of
creation (summarising the Book of Genesis, chapter 1).
Edited by G. A. Zinn, Jr., ‘The Influence of Hugh of St. Victor’s Chronicon on the
Abbreviationes Chronicorum by Ralph of Diceto’, Speculum 52 (1977) 38–61, at 44.
Hugh of Saint-Victor’s ‘Chronicle’ (De tribus maximis circumstantis gestorum): Restoration (Hebrew chronology)
Unedited.
Four columns, introduced (in red ink) as Restauratio secundum
Hebraicam ueritatem, ‘Restoration according to Hebrew truth’, headed 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’).
After eleven lines of names and figures, it is stated (in red ink)
[P]rima etas continens annos imdclv (‘The First Age comprises 1,655 years’).
After nine more lines of names and figures, it is stated (in red ink, in the last line of the page) Secunda etas continens annos ccxcii (‘The Second Age
comprises 292 years’).