Royal MS 13 A II

GENERAL CHRONICLE, in Latin, made up of copious extracts from the second recension, completed in 1110, of the Historia Ecclesiastica of Hugo Floriacensis, or Hugh of S. Mary, a monk of Fleury (cf. Waitz in Mon, Germ. Hist. ix, p. 337). The first three quires are lost, f. 1 beginning, in the reign of Theodosius, 'Imperator obediens' (Hug. Floriac. Chronicon, cd. B. Rottendorff, Münster, 1638, p. 114, l. 5). The Chronicle here ends (f. 34 b), as in the same edition and in Mon. Germ. Hist. ix, p. 364, with the reign of Louis the Pious (d. 840), the concluding words 'Karolus uero pius Franciam Burgundiam et Aquitaniam solus obtinuit' referring to A.D. 855. After this follow passages taken from the earlier part of Hugo's work, viz.:-'Parthi igitur Assiriorum'-'operi proposito manum applicabo' (ed. Rott. pp. 31-33). ff. 34 b-36;-'Sunt nonnulli'-'fabulas deputantur' (ib. p. 34). This is an extract from the prologue to lib. iii in the second recension (M. G. H. ix, p. 355). f. 36;-'Antiquo tempore Brenntus' (sic)- 'uocitatur' (ed. Rott. p. 36), followed by a passage, 'Tantusque terror Gallici nominis'-'Gallogreciam cognominauerunt', not in Rottendorff's edition. f. 36;-

'Secundus Romanorum monarchus'-'in fugam uersi sunt', extracts extending from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius (ib. pp. 36-74). ff. 36 b-42.

Added at the end, but of the same date, is a passage on the conversion of the Bulgarians in the time of Louis the Pious, 'Preterea gens Uulgarum (sic) ferocissima', 'reliquum uite presentis tempus duxit' (f. 42).

Vellum; ff. 42. 6³/₄ in. x 4¹/₂ in. Late XII cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, numbered at the beginning iiii-ix (vii⁷, ix⁴). Sec. fol. ipsam cognouerit'. Plain initials in red and green. Theyer salecat. no. 259; CMA. 6467.