Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Chronicle
Chronicon
(Chronicon, Chronicle)
Temporum liber
(Temporum liber, Book of times)

Author:

Jerome

Period covered:

Abraham-378

Language:

Latin

State of Preservation:

Full

Genre:

Remarks:

Jerome's Chronicle is a translation, adaptation and continuation of that of Eusebius of Caesarea. Its impact on Latin chronicle writing was fundamental.

Edition - Translation:

R. Helm (1956) Eusebius: Werke. Volume Seven: Die Chronik des Hieronymus (Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte, 47). Leipzig.
A. Schoene (1866-1875) Eusebi Chronicorum libri duo. Two Volumes. Berlin.
B. Jeanjean, B. Lançon (2004) Saint Jérôme, Chronique: Continuation du Chronique d'Eusèbe, années 326-378 (Collection Histoire). Rennes.
G. Brugnoli (1995) Curiosissimus Excerptor: Gli "additamenta" di Girolamo ai "chronica" di Eusebio. Pisa.
M.D. Donalson (1996) A translation of Jerome's Chronicon with historical commentary. Lampeter.
J.K. Fotheringham (1923) Eusebii Pamphili Chronici canones, Latine vertit, adauxit, ad sua tempora produxit S. Eusebius Hieronymus. London.
R. Helm (1929) Hieronymus' Zusätze in Eusebius' Chronik und ihr Wert für die Literaturgeschichte (Philologus, Supplement 21.2). Leipzig.

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Bibliography:

R. Burgess (1999) Studies in Eusebian and post-Eusebian chronography (Historia Einzelschriften, 135). Stuttgart.
R. Burgess (2002) 'Jerome explained: An introduction to his "Chronicle" and a guide to its use'. The Ancient History Bulletin 16.1-2: 1-32.
Y.-M. Duval, P.L. Schmidt (2020) 'Hieronymus', in: Jean-Denis Berger, Jacques Fontaine, Peter Lebrecht Schmidt (eds), Die Literatur im Zeitalter des Theodosius (374-430 n. Chr.). Volume 2. Munich: 143-147.
M. Vessey (2010) 'Reinventing history: Jerome's "Chronicle" and the writing of the post-Roman West'. Yale Classical Studies 34: 265-289.