Treasury of Chronology: In Which the Entire Series of Times and Histories, in Every Sphere of Life, Is Set Before the Eyes

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Original title: Thesaurus chronologiae: in quo universa temporum & historiarum series in omni vitae genere ponitur ob oculos A Latin technical treatise on universal chronology, printed at Herborn in Nassau as an octavo of 340 and [36] pages with a partly folding table and index. Rather than a narrative history, it is a working instrument of learned reckoning composed of fifty numbered chronologies: it begins by defining the epoch as a computational root and tabulating the epochs from the creation of the world through the Julian Period, the Flood, the Olympiads, Rome, the Nativity, the Hegira and the Gregorian reform, then proceeds through biblical successions (patriarchs, judges, kings of Judah and Israel, a biblical bibliography and harmony of the evangelists), the four monarchies and their successor kingdoms, the migrations of peoples, German kings traced to Tuisco, catalogues of inventors, cities and schools, and the ages and classes of the learned — kabbalists and rabbis, Church Fathers, scholastics, councils, jurists, physicians, alchemists, philologists, poets and philosophers. Ecclesiastical chapters divide the Roman pontiffs into three classes and identify the third with the body of the Antichrist, set out 'witnesses of truth' and the 'mystery of iniquity' as datable series, and convert prophetic numbers from Daniel and the Apocalypse into dated intervals and terminal years. Astronomical chapters on eclipses, Saturn–Jupiter conjunctions and comets close the work as its verification apparatus, together with rules for establishing synchronism, a prefatory ready-reckoner table, an epitome of the Apocalypse, an index of memorable things, and a list of corrigenda. 👉 Read our introductory primer, full report, and finding guide here 📜 View the original source file This text was transcribed and translated as part of the ExLatinis project—an effort by Leo to make English translations of every published text in Latin in early modern Europe (between 1450 and 1750) available to the public for free online.

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