Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Liber generationis 2
Congregationes temporum vel annorum a constitutione mundi usque in hodiernum diem
(Congregationes temporum vel annorum a constitutione mundi usque in hodiernum diem, Gathering of the times and years from the creation of the world until today)

Author:

Anonymous (Liber generationis 2)

Period covered:

Adam-334

Language:

Latin

State of Preservation:

Full

Genre:

Remarks:

This is a Latin translation of a reworked version of the Chronicle attributed to Hippolytus. It is preserved in the same compilation that includes the so-called Calender of 354.

Edition - Translation:

T. Mommsen (1892) Chronica minora saec. IV.V.VI.VII. Volume One (Monumenta Germaniae historica: Auctores antiquissimi, 9). Berlin: 89-137, 154-196.
A. Bauer (1905) Die Chronik des Hippolytos im Matritensis Graecus 121 (Texte und Untersuchungen, 14). Leipzig.
A. Bauer, R. Helm (1955) Hippolytus: Werke. Volume Four: Die Chronik (Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte, 46). Berlin.

Fragments:

Users:

Sources:

Hippolytus of Rome

Bibliography:

P.L. Schmidt (1989) '§531.4 Liber generationis mundi'. In: Restauration und Erneuerung: Die lateinische Literatur von 284 bis 374 n. Chr., ed. R. Herzog (Handbuch der lateinischen Literatur der Antike, 8.5). Munich: 182-183.