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Chapter 30: The Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Century: Otto of Freising to Honorius of Autun, with Innocent III
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Otto of Freising. 1145
Otto, Bishop of Freising, notable for nobility, piety and learning, was the grandson of the emperor Henry the fourth, the nephew of Henry the fifth, the half-brother of King Conrad, the uncle of Frederick the first. At first he was a Cistercian Monk, and a little after Abbot of Morimond, then Bishop of Freising; at last in that same monastery he piously gave back his soul to God in the year of the Lord 1159 [1158]. And because he had once much praised Gilbert de la Porrée, at his death he retracted anything he had said in his praise that might seem contrary to the Christian faith; since some articles had been condemned under Gilbert's name in a Council of Bishops by the Pontiff Eugene the third. I have seen all this in Rahewin, On the deeds of the emperor Frederick book 2, chapter 11. Otto of Freising wrote seven books of chronicles from the founding of the world to the year of the Lord 1146, to which he added an eighth book on the end of the world, the persecution of Antichrist, the resurrection of the dead, the final judgement, and the glory of the blessed and the punishments of the damned. He wrote besides two books on the deeds of the emperor Frederick the first, to which Rahewin, Canon of Freising, added two others.
Peter Comestor. 1150
Peter Comestor, who is also the Master of the scholastic history, flourished at this very time; for he dedicated his work to William, Archbishop of Sens, whom Pope Alexander the third commissioned to condemn a certain opinion of Peter Lombard, as we said above. He wrote the sacred history in sixteen books, which are the sacred historical books, namely Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, the first of Kings, the second of Kings, the third of Kings, the fourth of Kings, Tobias, Ezechiel, Daniel, Judith, Esther, of the Machabees, the Gospel history and the history of the Acts of the Apostles. And he wrote inserting into the sacred words much from the glosses and from profane authors, and not seldom mixing in uncertain histories.
Theorianus. 1170
Theorianus, a learned Greek, was sent by the emperor Manuel to the Armenians to recall them from their errors about the Christian faith; which he did excellently in the year of the Lord 1170. There is extant the dialogue of Theorianus the orthodox with the Catholicos of the Armenians, in volume 4 of the Library of the Holy Fathers, second edition; and it is a dialogue worth reading; though Genebrard, book 4 of the Chronology, tries to excuse the Armenians from the error of Peter the Fuller; yet let readers judge whether he excused them rightly.
Hugh Etherianus. 1177
Hugh Etherianus, a Tuscan by nation, a man learned in Greek and Latin, living at Constantinople, wrote very learnedly a book On the procession of the Holy Spirit against the errors of the Greeks, which book he sent to the Pontiff Alexander the third in the year 1177, on the witness of Cardinal Baronius, Annals volume 12, where he also gives the letter of the same Alexander in which he thanks Hugh. He wrote also On the return of souls from the underworld. Both works are extant in volume 9 of the Library of the Holy Fathers, second edition.
Arnold of Chartres. 1177
Arnold of Chartres, Abbot of Bonneval, a very pious and learned man, a disciple and above all a friend of St. Bernard, to whom he also wrote letter 310 on his own death, then at hand. He wrote a notable little work on the seven last words spoken by Christ on the Cross. He wrote likewise on the praises of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God; which two works are extant in the Library of the Holy Fathers, volume 1, second edition. He wrote too the second book of the life of St. Bernard, which is found at the end of the works of St. Bernard.
John of Salisbury. 1177
John of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres, lived in the time of Alexander the third. He wrote much, and among it the life of St. Thomas of Canterbury, a Penitential work, a Rebuke of the Clergy, the Policraticus in eight books, On the trifles of courtiers, and Letters to various persons. They are extant printed in the year 1513.
Peter of Blois. 1167
Peter of Blois, Archdeacon of Bath, lived in the time of the Pontiff Alexander III and of Henry the second, King of the English, to whom he was long a familiar and servant. He wrote much wisely and eloquently, which is now extant by the work of Johannes Busaeus, published at Mainz in the year 1600: namely 180 letters; a Treatise on the Lord's transfiguration; a Treatise on the conversion of St. Paul; a Compendium on Job; a Treatise on the pilgrimage to Jerusalem; an Instruction in the faith to the Sultan of Iconium; a book On sacramental confession; a book On the satisfaction to be enjoined by the Priest; the Episcopal canon, or On the instruction of a Bishop; an Invective against a corrupter; a Treatise on Christian friendship. Besides these he himself mentions in the invective other works of his which do not seem to be extant. Many letters of this Peter are found in volume 12 of the Annals of Cardinal Baronius; and the instruction in the faith to the Sultan is found also in Matthew Paris at the year of the Lord 1169 under the name of Pope Alexander III. For the Pontiff sent it in his own name, though written by Peter of Blois.
William of Tyre. 1180
William, Archbishop of Tyre, was living in the year of the Lord 1180, in which year Manuel, emperor of the Greeks, died, as he himself testifies in book 22 of his history, chapters 4 and 5. He wrote the history of the holy war in twenty-three books; but the twenty-third book was begun by him, not finished. He begins from the year of the Lord 1095 and brought the history to the year 1180 [1184]; but Johannes Herold continued it, adding six books, to the year of the Lord 1521.
Helmold of Bosau. 1180
Helmold, Canon of Bosau, at the same time wrote the history of the Wends, or Slavs, from Charlemagne to the year of the Lord 1168 [1171].
Godfrey of Viterbo. 1180
Godfrey of Viterbo, Notary of the emperors Conrad III and Frederick the first, wrote a universal chronicle which he called the Pantheon, perhaps because it contains the deeds of all princes, both ecclesiastical and temporal; for princes are called gods in the Scriptures. And he wrote partly in prose, partly in verse, and divided his work into twenty parts, and dedicated it to Urban III, supreme Pontiff, to whose Pontificate he brought his history, that is, from the beginning of the world to the year of the Lord 1186. Further, in this very year Constance, the daughter of King Roger of Sicily, married Henry the sixth, the son of Frederick the first, a youth of twenty-one years, his father Frederick the first being still alive, as the same Godfrey testifies at the end of the seventeenth part. By which is refuted the fable of Constance the daughter of Roger, a Nun and an old woman, marrying Henry the sixth by dispensation of Celestine III; for Celestine the third began to sit in the year of the Lord 1191.
William of Newburgh. 1190
William of Newburgh at the same time wrote an English history in five books; and in book 4, chapter 13, he bewails the unhappy end of Frederick the first, because of the unjust persecution made against the lawful Pontiff Alexander III. He began his history from the year of the Lord 1066, and ran through very briefly to the year 1135, in which year he testifies that he was born; and from this year he writes the history of his nation at length to the year of the Lord 1197 [1198].
Roger the historian. 1190
Roger of Hoveden, a notable historian, wrote two books of English annals very diligently, and reached King John, who began to reign in the year of the Lord 1199.
Theodore Balsamon. 1191
Theodore Balsamon, Patriarch of Antioch, lived in the time of Xiphilinus, Patriarch of Constantinople, to whom he dedicated his work; and George Xiphilinus began to sit in the year 1191, on the witness of Cardinal Baronius, Annals volume 12, at the year 1191. Balsamon wrote two books of Commentaries, one on the Nomocanon of Photius, the other on the canons of various Councils and holy Fathers. But Balsamon was a schismatic, and hostile to the Roman Church no less than Photius. See Baronius in the place cited.
Abbot Joachim. 1195
Joachim, Abbot of the Monastery of Fiore, was living in the year 1193. He wrote on Isaias and Jeremias and the Apocalypse, and the Concord of the old and new Testament; all of which are extant. There are carried about under his name certain prophecies about future Roman Pontiffs; what faith they deserve, let it be others' judgement. This is strange, that though those prophecies belong only to fifteen Pontiffs, yet the curiosity of men tries to extend them to our own times.
The thirteenth century, from the year 1200 to 1300
Innocent the third, Pontiff
Innocent III, supreme Pontiff, began to sit in the Apostolic See in the year 1198, and sat until the year 1216. He was a man of much piety and learning, and of no less prudence in governing the Church. His works are contained in two volumes. In the first are found: Sermons on the season; likewise on the Saints, both proper and common; likewise four on the consecration of a Pontiff. And besides, the books: On Almsgiving, 1; on the seven penitential Psalms, 1; On the praise of charity, 1; On the mysteries of the Mass, 6; On contempt of the world, 3 [“5” printed]; an Encomium of Christ and his Mother; Prayers on the passion of Christ, 3; On the veneration of the saints, 3; a Hymn to Christ and his Mother; Sermons of exhortation to the Council, 2; the Acts and decrees of the Lateran Council. In the later volume are: two books of Letters, and five books of decretal Constitutions.
Note. The one who published the books of Innocent the third set before the Lateran Council a warning in which he said that the decrees of that Council were written and published not by the Council but by Innocent himself after the Council; which he proves from this, that in certain chapters mention is made of the Lateran Council as already finished, and especially in chapters 29, 33 and 41. But this author, whoever he was, was altogether deceived, and deceived some other writers. For the Lateran Council mentioned in these chapters is not the Lateran under Innocent III but under Alexander III; and to remove this error, in the Roman edition of the general Councils published in Greek and Latin, in the Council under Innocent III, it is noted in the margin where the chapters of the Lateran Council under Alexander III are cited. So the decrees published under Innocent III are truly of the general Council, and were laid down and published by the Council itself, not by Innocent alone after the Council.
Gunther. 1203
Gunther, a Monk of Paris [of Pairis], wrote the Constantinopolitan history which happened in his time, namely when Constantinople was taken by the Latins and Baldwin of Flanders created emperor; which history is extant in Henricus Canisius, volume 5, part 2, of the Ancient Readings.
Helinand. 1203
Helinand, a Gallic Monk, wrote a history from the founding of the world to the year 1212 [1204] in forty-eight books; which author Vincent of Beauvais and St. Antoninus chiefly followed in writing history. He wrote also sermons and letters and other things, whether these are extant printed I do not know.
Nicetas Choniates. 1205
Nicetas Acominatus, or Choniates, flourished after the year 1200. For he wrote a history, which is extant in Greek and Latin, from the year 1118 to the year 1205 [1206], that is, from the Empire of John Comnenus, son of Alexius, to the death of Baldwin the first, the first Latin emperor of Constantinople. He is said also to have written five books On the orthodox faith in the Greek tongue, which I have not seen, but I have heard they were printed at Paris.
Conrad, Abbot of Ursperg. 1215
The Abbot of Ursperg, whose name was long unknown, but at last it became known to be Conrad, was living in the time of the Pontiff Innocent III; for he himself testifies that in the year of the Lord 1202 he was made a Presbyter, in the year 1207 a Premonstratensian Monk, and in the year 1215 Abbot of Ursperg. He wrote a history, or chronicle, from the first King of the Assyrians, Belus, to the emperor Frederick the second, that is, to the year of the Lord 1229 and the ninth of the emperor Frederick.
Note. It is necessary that this history either is not of one author, or that this Conrad inserted some things into his history from the writings of others. For at the year 1102 [1111] he writes that he was at Rome when Pope Paschal the second publicly pronounced the emperor Henry excommunicated on Thursday of the Lord's Supper. But he himself (as we noted a little before) writes that in the year 1215 he was made Abbot of Ursperg; which certainly do not hang together, unless perhaps he was made Abbot when he was more than a hundred and fifteen years old. But neither can this be said; since the same man, speaking of the beginning of the Pontificate of Innocent the third, that is, of the year 1198, says that he was then of minor age and still a layman; for how could he be of minor age if he was more than a hundred? This too must be observed: that this author, from love of the emperors of his nation, wrote not a few insulting things of Innocent the third and Gregory the ninth, very pious and learned Pontiffs; but otherwise he is a quite diligent writer and worth reading.
Honorius of Autun. 1220
Honorius, a Presbyter of Autun, was famous in the year of the Lord 1220 [as printed], from Trithemius, who attributes to him many works which perhaps are not extant. But there is extant, printed at Basel in the year 1544, a summa of histories, or great chronicle; there is extant also a commentary on the books of Solomon published at Cologne in the year 1544 [as printed]. There is extant too the book entitled the Jewel of the soul, which book is usually printed with the authors who wrote on the divine offices.
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De Othone Frisingensi. 1145.' Otho Frisingensis Episcopus, insignis no¬ bilitate, pietate, et doctrina, fuit Henrici quarti imperatoris nepos , Henrici quinti sororius, Conradi regis frater uterinus, Fri- derici primi patruus, initio Monachus fuit Cisterciensis, ac paulo post Abbas Morimun- densis, deinde Episcopus Frisingensis : tan¬ dem in ipso eodem monasterio pie Deo ani¬ mam reddidit anno Dom. 1159 et quoniam Gilbertum Porretanum aliquando valde lau¬ daverat, in morte revocavit, si quid in ejus laudem dixisset, quod fidei Christianae con¬ trarium videri posset. Siquidem aliqui arti¬ culi in Concilio Episcoporum ab Eugenio tertio Pontifice damnati fuerant sub nomine Gilberti. Vidi haec omnia apud Radevicum lib. ii. de gestis Friderici imperatoriscap. 1 1 . Scripsit Otho Frisingensis libros septem chronicorum ab orbe condito usque ad an¬ num Dom. 1146. quibus addidit librum octa¬ vum de fine mundi, Antichristi persecutione, resurrectione mortuorum, judicio finali, et gloria beatorum, ac suppliciis damnatorum. Scripsit praeterea de gestis Friderici primi imp. libros duos ; quibus duos alios addidit Radevicus Canonicus Frisingensis. De Petro Comestore. 1150. Petrus Comestor, qui et Magister historiae scholasticae, hoc ipso tempore floruit : dedi¬ cavit enim opus suum Wilelmo Archiepi- scopo Senonensi, cui Alexander tertius Papa commisit, ut sententiam quamdam Petri Lombardi damnaret, ut supra diximus. Scri¬ psit historiam sacram xvi. libris, qui sunt libri sacri historiales, videlicet Genesis, Exo¬ dus, Leviticus, Numeri, Josue , Judices, Ruth , primus Regum, secundus Regum, tertius Regum, quartus Regum , Tobias, Ezechiel, Daniel, Judith,Esther, Macchabeeo- rum, historia Evangelica, et historia Actuum Apostolorum. Scripsit autem inserens verbis sacris multa ex glossis, et ex profanis au¬ ctoribus, et non raro admiscens incertas hi¬ storias. De Theoriano. 1170. Theorianus quidam Graecus vir doctus, missus fuit a Manuele imperatore ad Arme- nos, ut eos ab erroribus circa fidem Chri¬ stianam revocaret : quod ille egregie prae¬ stitit anno Dom. 1170. Exstat dialogus Theo- riani orthodoxi cum generali Armenorum, in tomo quarto bibliothecae sanctorum Pa¬ trum edit, secundae estque dialogus lectu dignus, quamvis Genebrardus lib. iv. chro- nologiae conetur excusare Armenos ab er¬ rore Petri Gnaphaei, tamen judicent lectores, an recte excusaverit. De Hugone Etheriano. 1177. Hugo Etherianus natione Tuscus, vir do¬ ctus Graece et Latine, Constantinopoli degens scripsit valde erudite librum de processione Spiritus sancti, adversus errores Graecorum : quem librum ad Alexandrum tertium Ponti¬ ficem misit anno 1 177., teste Card. Baronio tomo xn. Annalium, ubi et epistolam ejus¬ dem Alexandri ponit, qua gratias agit Hu- goni. Scripsit etiam de regressu animarum ab inferis. Utrumque opus exstat in tomo 9. bibliothecae SS. Patrum, edit. 2. De Arnoldo Carnotensi. 1177. Arnoldus Carnotensis, Abbas bonae Vallis, vir admodum pius, et doctus, et Sancti Ber- nardi discipulus, et amicus in primis, ad quem etiam scripsit epistolam 310. de obitu 444 DE SCRIPTORIBUS ECCLESIASTICIS suo jam imminente. Scripsit insigne opuscu¬ lum de septem verbis novissimis a Christo in Cruce prolatis. Scripsit item de laudibus Virginis Marise Matris Dei : qua! duo opera exstant in bibliotheca sanctorum Patrum to¬ mo primo edit, secundse. Scripsit quoque se¬ cundum librum vitee Sancti Bernardi, qui habetur ad finem operum Sancti Bernardi. De Joanne Saresperiensi. 1177. Joannes Saresperiensis, Episcopus Garno- tensis, vixit tempore Alexandri tertii. Scri¬ psit multa, et in iis vitam S. Thoma! Gan- tuariensis, Opus pcenitentiale , Objurgatio¬ nem Cleri, Polycraticum libris octo, de nu¬ gis curialium, Epistolas ad diversos. Exstant impressa anno 1513. De Petro Blesensi. Hc7 Petrus Blesensis , Archidiaconus Batho- niensis, vixit tempore Alexandri III. Pontifi¬ cis, et Henrici secundi regis Anglorum, cui diu familiaris et administer fuit. Scripsit multa sapienter et eloquenter, qua! nunc exstant opera Joannis Bussei : edita sunt Moguntise anno 1600. videlicet epistolse 180. Tractatus de transfiguratione Domini. Tractatus de conversione sancti Pauli. Compendium in Job. Tractatus de Hierosolymitana peregrina¬ tione. Instructio fidei ad Soldanum Iconii. Liber de confessione Sacramentali. Liber de satisfactione a Sacerdote injun¬ genda. Canon Episcopalis, sive de institutione Episcopi. Invectiva contra depravatorem. Tractatus de amicitia Christiana. Ad hsec meminit ipse in invectiva aliorum operum suorum quae non videntur exstare. Inveniuntur multae hujus Petri epistolae in tomo xn. Annalium Card. Baronii : et in¬ structio fidei ad Soldanum, invenitur etiam apud Matthaeum Parisiensem ad annum Dora. 1 169. sub nomine Alexandri III. Pon¬ tificis. Pontifex enim eam direxit nomine suo, quamvis a Petro Blesensi conscriptam. De Gulielmo Tyrio. 1180. t» Gulielmus Archiepiscopus Tyri vivebat anno Dom. 1180. quo anno Manuel impera¬ tor Graecorum obiit, ut ipse testatur libro xxii. historiae suae cap. 4. et 5. Scripsit historiam de bello sacro libris vi- ginti tribus, sed liber vicesimus tertius ab ipso inchoatus, non absolutus fuit. Incipit ab anno Dom. 1095. et perduxit historiam usque ad annum 1180; sed continuavit Joan¬ nes Heroldus additis libris sex ad annum Dom. 1521. De Helmodo Butsoniensi. \ 180. Helmodus Canonicus Butsoniensis eodem tempore scripsit historiam Henetorum, sive Sclavorum, a Carolo Magno usque ad an¬ num Dom. 1168. De Gothefrido Viter biensi. 1180. Gothefridus Viterbiensis Notarius Conradi III. Friderici primi imperatorum, scripsit chronicum universale, quod appellavit Pan¬ theon, fortasse , quod contineat res gestas omnium principum, tum ecclesiasticorum, tum temporalium. Principes enim dii appel¬ lantur in Scripturis; Scripsit autem partim prosa, partim carmine, et divisit opus suum in partes viginti, et dedicavit illud Urbano III. summo Pontifici, ad cujus Pontificatum historiam suam perduxit, id est, ab initio mundi usque ad annum Dom. 1186. Porro hoc ipso anno nupsit Constantia filia Rogerii regis Siciliae, Henrico sexto filio Friderici primi, adolescenti annorum viginti et unius adhuc vivente parente ejus Fride- rico primo, ut idem Gothefridus testatur parte decima septima extrema. Ex quibus refellitur fabula de Constantia filia Rogerii, Sanctimoniali, et vetula, per dispensationem Ccelestini III. nubente Hen¬ rico sexto. Ccelestinus enim tertius sedere coepit anno Dom. 1191. De Gulielmo Neubrigensi. 1190. N Gulielmus Neubrigensis eodem tempore scripsit historiam Anglicanam libris quinque, et lib. iv. cap. 13, deplorat infelicem exitum Friderici primi, ob injustam persecutionem factam legitimo Pontifici Alexandro III. Coe¬ pit historiam suam ab anno Dom. 1066. et brevissime pertransiit usque ad annum 1135., quo anno se natum fuisse testatur, et ab hoc 445 AB ANNO DOM. 1200. AD 1300. anno fuse scribit historiam gentis suse usque ad ann. Dom. 1197. De Rogerio historico. 1190. Rogerius de Hoveden insignis historicus scripsit libros duos annalium Anglicanorum valde diligenter, et pervenit usque ad Joan- nein regem qui regnare coepit anno Dom. 1199. De Theodoro Balsamone. 1191. Theodorus Balsamon Patriarcha Antio¬ chenus vixit temporo Xiphilini Patriarchae Constantinopolitani , cui dedicavit suum opus; Georgius autem Xiphilini anno 119!. sedere coepit, teste Baronio Gard. tomo xn. Annalium, ad annum »191. Scripsit Balsa¬ mon duos libros Commentariorum, unum in Nomocanonem Photii, alterum in canones variorum Conciliorum, et SS. Patrum. Fuit autem Balsamon schismaticus, et Romanae Ecclesiae infensus, non minus quam Photius. Vide Baronium loco citato. De Joachimo Abbate. 1195., Joachimus Abbas Florensis Monasterii vi¬ vebat anno 1193. Scripsit in Isaiam, et Hie- remiam, et Apocalypsim , et Concordiam Testamenti veteris et novi : quae omnia ex¬ stant. Circumferuntur quaedam vaticinia sub ejus nomine de futuris Pontificibus Romanis, quae quam fidem mereantur, aliorum sit judicium : illud mirum est, quod cum ea vaticinia ad solos quindecim Pontifices per¬ tineant : tamen curiositas hominum ad no¬ stra usque tempora extendere illa conatur. S.E CULUM DECIMUM TERTIUM AB ANNO 1200. AD 1300. De Innocentio tertio Pontifice. Innocentius III. Pontifex maximus sedere coepit in Apostolica Sede anno 1198. et sedit usque ad annum 1216. Vir fuit multae pie¬ tatis, et doctrinae, nec minoris prudentiae in Ecclesia gubernanda. Ejus opera duobus tomis continentur. In priore habentur : Sermones de tempore. Item de Sanctis, tum proprii, tum com¬ munes. Item de consecratione Pontificis, quatuor. \ Ad haec libri : De Eleemosyna, 1 In septem Psalmos pcenitent. 1 De laude charitatis, 1 De mysteriis Missae, 6 De contemptu mundi, 5 Eucomium in Christum, et ejus Matrem. Precationes de passione Christi, 3 De sanctorum veneratione, 3 Hymnus in Christum et ejus Matrem. Conciones parameticae ad Concilium, 2 Acta atque decreta Concilii Lateranensis. In posteriore tomo sunt : Epistolarum libri duo, et Constitutionum decretalium libri quinque. Observatio. Qui libros Innocentii tertii edidit, praemi¬ sit ante Concilium Lateranense admonitio¬ nem, in qua dixit, Concilii illius decreta non a Concilio, sed ab ipso Innocentio post Con¬ cilium conscripta, atque edita fuisse : quod inde probat, quia in capitulis quibusdam fit mentio Concilii Lateranensis jam peracti, ac praesertim in cap. 29. 33. et 41. Sed hic au¬ ctor, quicumque fuerit, omnino deceptus est, et alios nonnullos scriptores decepit. Siquidem Concilium Lateranense, cujus fit mentio in his capitulis, non est Lateranense sub Innocentio III. sed sub Alexandro 111., atque ad hunc errorem tollendum e medio, in editione Romana Conciliorum generalium Graece et Latine editorum. In Concilio sub Innocentio III. notatur ad marginem, ubi sint capitula Lateranensis Concilii sub Alex¬ andro III. ibi citata. Itaque decreta Concilii sub Innocentio III. edita, vere Concilii gene¬ ralis sunt, et ab ipso Concilio constituta, et edita, non a solo Innocentio post Concilium. De Gunthero. 1203. Guntherus Monachus Parisiensis scripsit historiam Constantinopolitanam, quae tem¬ pore suo contigit, quando videlicet Constan- tinopolis a Latinis capta est, et Balduinus Flander, imperator creatus : quae historia . 446 DE SCRIPTORIBUS ECCLESIASTICIS exstat apud Henricum Canisium tom. v. pars. 2 antiquae lectionis. De H elimando. 1203. Helinandus Monachus Gallus scripsit hi¬ storiam ab orbe condito usque ad annum 1212. libris quadraginta octo ; quem aucto¬ rem praecipue secuti sunt Vincentius Bello- vacensis, et S. Antonius in historia scribenda. Scripsit etiam sermones, et epistolas, et alia, quae utrum excusa exstent, ignoro. De Hiceta Choniate. 1205. Nicetas Acominatus, sive Choniates, flo¬ ruit post annum 1200. Scripsit enim histo¬ riam, quae exstat Graece, et Latine, ab anno 111 8. usque ad annum 1205., id est, ab Im¬ perio Jo. Commeni, Alexii filii, usque ad obitum Balduini primi ex Latinis imperato¬ ris Constantinopolitani. Dicitur etiam scri¬ psisse libros quinque de fide orthodoxa, Graeco idiomate, quos non vidi, sed Parisiis excusos esse accepi. De Conrado Urspergensi Abbate. 1215. Abbas Urspergensis, cujus nomen diu fuit incognitum, sed tandem Conradum esse in¬ notuit, vivebat tempore Innocentii III. Pon¬ tificis : testatur enim ipse, se anno Dom. 1202. factam Presbyterum, et anno 1207. factum esse Monachum Prsemonstratensem : et anno 1215. factum esse Abbatem Ursper- gensem. Scripsit historiam, sive chronicum a primo Rege Assyriorum Belo usque ad Fridericum secundum imperatorem, id est, usque ad an¬ num Dom. 1229. et Friderici imperatoris nonum. Observatio. Necesse est, hanc historiam, vel non esse unius auctoris, vel Conradum hunc, inser¬ visse aliqua in historia sua, ex scriptis alio¬ rum. Siquidem anno 1102. scribit se Romae fuisse, cum Paschalis secundus Pontifex feria quinta in Ccena Domini publice imperatorem Henricum excommunicatum pronuntiavit. At ipse (ut paulo ante notavimus) scribit, se anno 1215. factum esse Abbatem Ursper- gensem : quae certe non cohaerent, nisi forte factus sit Abbas cum esset plusquam centum et quindecim annorum. Sed neque hoc dici potest ; cum ipse idem loquens de initio Pon¬ tificatus Innocentii tertii, id est, de anno 1198. dicat, se tunc fuisse in minori aetate, et adhuc laicum : quomodo enim esse pote¬ rat in minori aetate, si plusquam centenarius erat ? Illud quoque observandum est, hunc au¬ ctorem, ob amorem erga imperatores suae nationis, non pauca contumeliosa scripsisse de Innocentio tertio, et Gregorio nono Pon¬ tificibus valde piis et doctis : alioqui autem scriptorem esse satis diligentem, et dignum, qui legatur. De Honorio Augustudunensi. 1220. Honorius Augustudunensis Presbyter cla¬ ruit anno Domini 1220. ex Trithemio, qui ei multa opera attribuit, quae fortasse non ex¬ stant. Exstat autem excusa Basileae anno 1544. summa historiarum, sive chronicum magnum : exstat etiam commentarius in li¬ bros Salomonis editus Coloniae anno i 544. Exstat quoque liber inscriptus Gemma ani¬ mae, qui liber solet excudi cum auctoribus qui scripserunt de officiis divinis.