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 APPENDIX 489 chronicle, mentioned above, which goes down to a.d. 511. The later part of this chronicle is taken doubtless from a continuation of the Gallic chronicle. The author of the clxronicle of a.d. 511 drew also upon Orosius and Idatius and upon the Chronicle of Constantinople (Mommsen, p. 6'27). In future it would be convenient to refer to Gibbon's " Prosper Tiro " and this second chronicle as the Chronicle of 452 and the Chronicle or 511. The South- Gallic -A nn als were continued in the sixth century and were used b}- ]Iarius of Avenches, Maximus of Saragossa, and Isidore of Seville. See vol. iv.. Appendix 1. With the South-Gallic Chronicles JMommsen has published (from a Brussels and a Madrid Ms.) a short untitled Narration concerning Emperoi-b of the Valentinianean and Theodosian House (Valentinian, Valens, Gratian, Theodosius, Arcadiusand Honorius), written by a " contemporary and a,dmirer " of Theodosius ii. It contains no new historical fact ; but is interesting in having the notice that Honorius died of di'opsy, which is found in no other Latin record, and among Greek vi-iter3 only in Philostorgius (12, 13). The second of the two fragments which, accidentally joined together in an Ms. and hence falsely supposed to belong to the same work, go under the name of Anonymus Valesii,^ is highly important for events in Italy for the period which it covers from a.d. 475 to 526, that is to say, for Odovacar and Theodoric. It is a fragment of annals written at Eavenna in the sixth century, when thr.t city had been recovered by the Empire. The fiagment (of which more will be said in vol. iv. Appendix 1) is mentioned here, because it is edited bj' IIommsen (in Chronica Minora, I. p. 259 sqq. ) as belonging to one of a series of annals and chronicles which had a common source in a lost document which he calls C-hronica Italica and which had formerly been called by "VVaitz the Eavennate Annals, a name which disguises the fact that the compilation had been begun before Eavenna became the seat of the western Emperors. The other chief documents which contain the material for arriving at the original constitution of the Chronica Italica are as follows : Fasti Vindobonenses, preserved in a Vienna Als. in two recensions (dis- tinguished as priores and posteriores), to which are to be added some excerpts in a St. Gall Ms. (excerpta Sangallensia). This chronicle used to be known as tho Anonymus Cuspiniani, having been first published by Cuspinianus in 1553. Th<; ^jrtor recension comes dovn to A.D. 493, the posterior to a.d. 539, but both ar.; mutilated, the prior omitting the years 404-454. J The Continuation of Prosper, preserved in a Copenhagen Ms.i'' (compiled in tie seventh century towards the end of the reign of HeracUus, probably in Italy). In the later part of his work he made use of the chronicle of Isidore (who himself used the Chronica Italica) and the Chronica Italica. The Latin version of a Greek chronicle (written at Alexandria after a.d. 3S7), known as the Barbarus of Scaliger. Excerpts in the Liber Pontificalis of Eavenna, written by AgneUus in the ninth century. These documents are edited by Mommsen in parallel columns in vol. i. of Chronica IMinora. But as the Chronica Italica were utilised by Prosper, Marcellinus Comes, Cassiodorius, JIarius of Aventicum, Isidore, Paulus Diaconus, Theophanes, these authors must be also taken into account. The "Chronica Italica " seems to have been first published in a.d. 387, and its basis was the chronicle of Constantinople. Aftei-wards it was from time to time brought up to date, perhaps, as Ivlommsen suggests, by the care of booksellers. In the sixth century it was probably re-edited and carried on, after the overthrow of the Gothic kingdom, by Archbishop Maximian of Eavenna, whose '"chronicle" is cited by Agnellus. But there is no reason to suppose that he had anything to do wth the illiterate fragment of the so-called Anonymus Valesii. The so-called Historia JIiscella is made up of three distinct works of different ages : (1) Books 1-10 = the history of Eutropius, coming down to the 9 For the first fragment see vol. ii., Appendix, p. 533. 10 The new material contained in it was first edited by G. Hille (1866) under the title Prosperi Aquitani Chronici continuator Havniensis,