Document: Chronicle (updated version of Eusebius' Chronicle)
Reference:CPL 615c (CPG 3494)
Date: c. 380 (Kelly, p. 33)
Incipit: Vetus iste disertorum mos
Addressees: Vincentius and Gallienus

Earliest ms.:

Codex Oxoniensis Bodleianus Lat. auct. T II 26 (Fifth century)
Latin Text:Rudolf Helm. Die Chronik des Hieronymus = Hieronymi Chronicon, GCS 47=Eusebius' Werke 7 (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1956).

The electronic Patrologia Latina Database text  corrected against the edition of J. K. Fotheringham:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_04_latin_prefaces.htm

Migne, ed., Chronicun, PL vol. 27.

English Translation:Online collaborative translation led by Roger Pearse: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_00_eintro.htm
Includes an introduction.

Preface tranlated by Stephan Rebenich, (see abbreviations), pp. 75-78.

Malcolm Drew Donalson. A translation of Jerome's Chronicon with historical commentary (Lewiston: Mellen University Press, 1996)

Notes:This was a history from Abraham to Jerome's own day.  Jerome's work was a translation and revision of Eusebius of Caesarea's Chronicon.

Preface translated by W.H. Fremantle, "Preface to the Chronicle of Eusebius" in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), pp. 483-84.

Bibliography:Brugnoli, Curiosissimus Excerptor: Gli Additamenta di Girolamo ai Chronica di Eusebio (Pisa 1995) comments on the text of Helm.
 
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