Chronicon Paschale
Chronicon Paschale ("the Paschal Chronicle, also Chronicum Alexandrinum or Constantinopolitanum, ) from the historians (Historia) of the Eastern Roman Empire.
The "Chronicon Paschale" is a huge compilation, attempting a chronological list of events from the creation of Adam. The principal manuscript, the 10th-century Codex Vaticanus græcus 1941, is damaged at the beginning and end and stops short at AD 627. The Chronicle proper is preceded by an introduction containing reflections on Christian chronology and on the (Easter) cycle. The so-called 'Byzantine' or 'Roman' era (which continued in use in Greek Orthodox Christianity until the end of Turkish rule as the 'Julian calendar') was adopted in the Chronicum as the foundation of chronology; in accordance with which the date of the creation is given as the 21st of March, 5507.
The author identifies himself as a contemporary of the Emperor Heraclius (610-641), and was possibly a cleric attached to the suite of the œcumenical Patriarch Sergius. The work was probably written during the last ten years of the reign of Heraclius.
Malalas]]; the Acta Martyrum; the treatise of Epiphanius, bishop of Constantia (the old Salamis) in Cyprus (fl. 4th century), on Weights and Measures.
Editions
- L. Dindorf (1832) in Corpus scriptorum hist. byzantinae, with De Cange's preface and commentary
- J. P. Migne, Patrologia graeca, vol. 92.
- See also C. Wachsmuth, Einleitung in das Studien der alten Geschichte (1895)
- H. Gelzer, Sextus Julius Africanus und die byzantinische Chronographie, ii. I (1885)
- J. van der Hagen, Observationes in Heraclii imperatoris methodum paschalem (1736, but still considered indispensable)
- E. Schwarz in Pauly-Wissowa Litteratur (1897).
Partial English translation
- Chronicon Paschale 284–628 AD, translated by Michael Whitby and Mary Whitby (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1989) ISBN 0-85323-096-X
Sources
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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External links
- Chronicon Paschale (Catholic Encyclopedia)
- Paschal Chronicle (1911 Encyclopædia
- Chronicon Paschale (Olympiads 112–187)
- 1832 Dindorf edition at Google Books: Vol.1; Vol. 2.
- Migne Edition at Digital Patrology