Annals of the World

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Original title: Annales mundi A Latin universal annalistic chronicle in a multi-part folio set, printed at Paris by F. Muguet. It registers events year by year from the Creation and Adam down to the author's own present under Louis XIV, fixing each notice within a synchronized grid of eras — years of the world paired with years from the founding of Rome and, later, years of Christ — with chapters gathering years into decades and books covering hundred-year world-ages, each opened by its own prooemium. Scriptural, Greek, Near Eastern, Roman, papal and Ottoman matter is entered in a single column of time, prefaced by a technical apparatus on chronological reckoning (cycles, epochs, Olympiads, the Julian period, indictions and various eras) and closed by an alphabetical index of memorable things. Alongside the annual notices the work weighs rival datings, examines forged or misattributed canons and documents, explains marvels rationally, refutes legends such as that of Pope Joan, derives names etymologically, and appends compressed moral and providential verdicts on empires, councils, popes and princes, treating Rome as a preparation for the Church, the fall of Jerusalem and the Ottoman advance as chastisement, and the Frankish monarchy as the Church's bulwark. It ends with the author's submission of the whole to the judgment of the Church and the Pontiff. 👉 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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