Dear listmembers,
I am currently working on the christianization of Old
Livonia and in this connection I ran over a passage from the
so-called annales Dunamundenses (from the first half of the
thirteenth century) - a short chronicle which first part
must have been written in the monastery of Duenamuende near Riga. The
chronicle (it is only one page long) contains mostly early events of
the history of Old Livonia and in this part it has been used by some
later chronicle-writers; the passage that I could not explain is
the following:
Quingentos decies cum bis centum minus anno. Annos dic ab adam donec
verbum caro factum; virgo parens vixit sexaginta tribus annis:
Quatuor atque decem fuit in partu benedicta, trigintaque tribus cum
nato manserat eius. Sexque decem solo, christo simul astra subivit;
depositio beate viriginis fuit in assumptione eiusdem, XL autem die,
hoc est 9 Kal. aprilis cum corpore et anima assumpta est in celum.
Quinto Idus marcij hoc est 14 die ante passionem domini fuit Lazarus
suscitatus. Sanctus Petrus fuit episcopus rome 25 annis. Vixit beatus
Paulus post suam conversionem 39 a.
Can anyone help with any suggestions about the origin of this kind of
text, especially what concerns the date of assumptio BMV? The passage
has been published by Wolfgang Schmidt in Die Zisterzienser im Baltikum und
in Finnland, Helsingfors 1941, S. 184-185 (the transcription of the
publication is correct, I checqued the original).
Many thanks in advance,
Tiina Kala
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