The first column of years, underlined, is the years from Abraham, shown every 10 years. The reckoning of years AD and BC is shown for guidance, but did not form part of the original text.
Note that the text has been formatted for display under Internet Explorer 6. I have been unable to discover why it behaves erratically under Firefox. The task of converting the Chronicle to HTML for the first time has not been a trivial one, and the only way to find out how to do it was to learn by doing. There are certain irregularities of page width in the second portion of the Chronicle. I hope I may be forgiven for not redoing this portion entirely, using the page size and format of the pages in the first part. Such an enterprise would be useful, but it would take months, for purely cosmetic gain. At the moment I do not have the resources to redo it. If it causes deep pain, let me know.
It is possible to print off the tabular portion of the Chronicle, in landscape mode, resizing to paper width. An inkjet can give quite satisfactory results.
Latin text
After this was all done, there was very little energy left for anything else, and certainly not to create an online Latin text. The text used for the translation project consisted of the 'lemmas' of text only. But during the summer of 2005, JMB very heroically volunteered to incorporate this into the format of the translation, so that a Latin text would be available. This he did, and it now appears here with the English. The numerals have not been converted back to Roman numbers. If someone would care to volunteer for that task, it would be nice to complete the job.
Bibliography
The materials available to the editor were limited to whatever could be bought or photocopied by someone living in a rural town. These were:
Richard W. B URGESS , Studies in Eusebian and post-Eusebian Chronography , Stuttgart (1999). (Photocopy of portions).
Malcolm Drew D ONALSON , A Translation of Jerome's Chronicon With Historical Commentary , Mellen University Press (1996). ISBN: 0773422587 (Photocopy of translation).
J. K. F OTHERINGHAM , The Bodleian Manuscript of Jerome's Version of the Chronicle of Eusebius Reproduced in Collotype . Oxford: Clarendon (1905) (Photocopy)
J. K. F OTHERINGHAM , Eusebii Pamphili Chronici canones . London: Humphrey Milford (1923). (Photocopy)
R. H ELM , Eusebius Werke 7: Die Chronik des Hieronymus , Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller 47 (1956). (Photocopy of text only)
Benoît J EANJEAN & Bertrand L ANÇON , Saint-Jérôme, Chronique : Continuation de la Chronique d'Eusèbe, années 326-378 suivie de quatre études sur les Chroniques et chronographies dans l'An ... e ronde du GESTIAT, Brest, 22 et 23 mars 2002 , PU Rennes (1 octobre 2004), ISBN : 2753500185. (Purchased copy).
Josef K ARST , Eusebius Werke, 5te Band : Die Chronik aus dem Armenischen übersetzt . Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteeler der Ersten Jahrhunderte 20. (1911). (Photocopy of portions).
Alden A. M OSSHAMMER , The Chronicle of Eusebius and the Greek Chronographic Tradition , Lewisburg/London (1979), ISBN 0-8387-1939-2. (Photocopy)
Alfred S CHOENE , Eusebi Chronicorum Libri . 2 vols. Berlin: Weidmann (1875) (Purchased copy, but not extensively used after reading Mosshammer's comments).
The other item available to the editor and translators, and used with wonder and delight for every chunk of translation, was the 9 century Merton College Oxford manuscript 315, available online from the Bodleian Library website.
Roger P EARSE
2005.
This text was written by Roger Pearse, 2005. All material on this page is in the public domain - copy freely.
Greek text is rendered using the Scholars Press SPIonic font, free from here .