Till the year 593 is a complement of the
Historia
of Gregory
of Tours.
of Tours.
Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire
Paris.
1872.
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734 Spain under the Visigoths
II. CONTEMPORARY AUTHORITIES.
1. Latins. Spanish and French.
Anonimus of Cordoba or Toledo, named erroneously, the Paceuse (Isidorus Pacensis).
Chronicon. The best edn. that of Tailhan, Anonyme de Cordoue. Paris. 1885.
(Is the only contemporary authority for the fall of Visigothic kingdom and of
the first years of the Arab conquest. ) (611-764. )
Anonimus, continuator of the above. Chronicon. Ed. Espafia sagrada: theatro
geograph. hist, de la Iglesia de Espana. 52 vols. Ed. Florenz, E. and others.
Vols, xlvji sqq. Ed. for RAH. Madrid. 1754-1879. (Esp. sagrada. ) vi.
3rd edn. , pp. 430-^1.
Anonimus. Libellus de vitis et miraculis Patrum Emeritensium. (Attributed by
Florez to a cleric of Merida, Paulo. ) Ed. Smedt, C. de. Brussels. 1884.
Braulius, Bishop of Saragossa. Liber de Vita B. Aemiliani. Ed. Sandoval,
Fundaciones de San Benito. Madrid. 1601. (For the letters of Braulius, see
Isidore of Seville. )
Bulgaranus, comes. Epistolae. Ed. Heine. Bibl. anecdotorum. Leipsic. 1848.
Idatii episcopi Chronicon. Ed. Garzon, J. M. and Ram, F. X. de. Brussels.
1845. Another edn. in Esp. sagrada, iv, pp. 345-85, with the addition of a little
Idatii Gallaeciae episcopi Chronicon, pp. 420-7. (Special for the first times of
the German invasion and the Suevic kingdom. ) Also ed. Mommsen, Tli. , Chron.
min. MGH. Spanish translation by M. Macias, in Bol. de la Comis. Mon.
Orense.
Isidore of Seville. (St Isidore. ) Historia de Regibus Gothorum, Uvandalorum et
Suevorum (256-621). Ed. Esp. sagrada. vi,' pp. 474-506. A more correct
text in St Isidore Opera. Vol. vn. Rome. 1803. (One of the most valuable
sources in the part relating to the Goths. The author has used the lost Chronicle
of Maximus of Saragossa. )
Chronicon. Ed. Esp. sagrada, vi, pp. 445-68 and Opera vn.
De viris illustribus. Ed. Opera, vu.
Epistolae St Isidori episcopi hispalensis et Braulionis Caesaraugustauis
mutuo directae. Ed. Esp. sagrada. xxxi, pp. 318-95. (The letters of
Braulius are very interesting for the history, both of institutions and of
political events. )
Joannis Biclarensis. Chronicon (567-90). Ed. Esp. sagrada. vi, pp. 375-89. The
continuator of J. of Biclara in pp. 422-32. Another edn. in Chronica minora.
Jordanis. De Getarum sive Gothorum origine et rebus gestis. (Getica. ) Ed.
Mommsen, MGH, auct. ant. v. English translation by Mierow, C.
Princeton. 1808. (The value of the work of Jordanis is that it is an extract
from the lost History of the Goths, written by Cassiodorus. )
Julianus, Bishop of Toledo. Liber de Historia Galliae, quae temporibus Divae
memoriae Principis Uvambae. (Historia Excellentissimi Uvambae Regis. )
Esp. sagrada. vi, pp. 534-63.
Martinus Bracarensis. De correctione rusticorum (572-4). Ed. Caspari, C. P. Chris-
tiania. 1883. (Interesting for the study of the popular beliefs and superstitions
in Gallicia. )
Montani, S. Eugenii III et S. lldephonsi Opera. Ed. Lorenzaua, SS. PP. Tole-
tanorum Opera, i. For the poems of Eugenius, see also MGH (with the poems
of Merobaudes, Dracontius and Eugenius).
Paulus Orosius. Historiarum libri vn, adversus Paganos. Ed. Zangemeister, C.
Vienna. 1882. (Fourth century and the beginning of the fifth. )
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Sisebutus. Epist. ol. ie, and Vita vel Passio Sancti Desiderii. Ed. Esp. sagrada.
vii, pp. 309-28 and 328-38.
Tajo, Bishop of Saragossa. Epistola. . . ad Eugenium episcopum Toletanum.
Ed. Balucio, Miscellaneorum, iv and Esp. sagrada, xxxi, pp. 166-70.
Chronicon Imperialis. (379-455. ) MPL. li.
Fredegarius. Chronicon. (584-652. ) See Gen. Bibl. v. Hanover. 1889. (This
Chronicle, attributed by Scaliger to an author named Fredegarius, is really
anonymous.
Till the year 593 is a complement of the Historia of Gregory
of Tours. Since 593 is the only source for the history of Gaul from the end of
the 6th century to the middle of the 7th. )
Gregorius Turonensis. Historia Francorum. (6th century. ) See Gen. Bibl. v.
(Two translations in French; one in German. )
Marius Aventicensis. Chronicon. Ed. Arndt. MGH. Chron. miu. n. Leipsic.
1875-8.
Prosperus Aquitanus. Chronicon. MPL. ij.
Severus Sulpicius. Chronica. MPL. xx. An Epitoma Chronicorum Severi cogno-
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Sidonius Apolliuaris. Epistolarum libri vii and Carmina. Ed. Luetjohann, MGH,
auct. ant. vm. 1887.
2. Arabs.
Akhbar Majmu'a. (Collection of traditions: 11th century. ) Ed. Lafuente
Alcantara, Colec. de obras arabigas. Madrid. 1867-
Anonymous. Fath al-Andalus. (End of the 11th century? ) Ed. Gonzalez, T.
de. Algiers. 1889.
Historical narration added to the Travel of a Moorish ambassador of the 17th
century. Ed. Colec. de obras arabigas, n. Madrid. See Sauvaire, H.
Voyage d'un ambassadeur marocain (1690-1). Paris. 1884.
Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam. History of the Conquest of Spain. Gottingen. 1858.
Ibn al-'Idhari. Al-Bayan al-Mughrib. Ed. Dozy. Leyden. 1848-51. 2 vols.
Partial transl. in Spanish by Fernandez y Gonzalez, Mistorias de Al-Andalus.
Granada. 1860. French transl. with notes by Faguau, E. 2 vols. Algiers,
1901, 1904.
Ibn al-Kiiyya. Chronicle. Ed. Colec. de obras arabigas, ii. (This volume is
unfinished; the translation of Arab text is not printed. Fragments from Ibn
Kutaiba may also be read in it. )
Ibn Khaldun. Histoire des Berberes. Transl. Baron de Slane. Algiers. 1855.
4 vols.
Makkari. Translation of P. de Gayangos. The history of the Mohammedan
dynasties in Spain, by Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Makkarl. London. 1840-3.
(Contents: Ibn Kutaiba and other Arab historians. ) Another ed. of the
Arab text, Dozy. Leyden. 1855-61.
Rabi' ibn Zaid. (Bishop Recemundus. ) Calendar. Ed. Libri, Hist des sciences
mathe'matiques en Italic, i. Dozy. Le Calendrier de Cordoue de l'anne'e 961.
Leyden. 1873.
Rasis. Chronicle of the Moor Rasis. (Till 976. ) Not the original chronicle, but
a version related by an Arab to a Portuguese cleric. See Gayangos. Memoria
sobre la auteuticidad de la Crdnica llamada del Moro Rasis, in Mem. RAH.
1850. (The most ancient Arabic chronicle relating to Spain. )
Tabari. Annales. (10th century. ) Transl. Barth, T. Leyden. 1879-89. See
Gen. Bibl. v.
Other Arabic chronicles will be found in
Codera, F. Bibliotheca arabico-hispana. Madrid. 1891 ff.
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736 Spain under the Visigoths
3. Greeks.
There are some Byzantine historians who can be used as original authorities for
Visigothic Spain, as Olympiodorus, Zosimus, Procopius of Cesarea and Prisons of
Panion. See Bibl. e. n.
III. MODERN WORKS.
1. General.
Dahn, F. Konige der Germanen. See Gen. Bibl. vi.
Die aussere Geschichte der Westgothen. WQrzburg. 1870.
Westgothische Studien. WQrzburg. 1874.
Bausteine. Berlin. 1879-80.
Die Verfassung der Westgothen. 2nd edn. Leipsic. 1885.
Urgeschichte. Spanish trans. Barcelona. 1889. See Gen. Bibl. vi.
Fernandez Guerra, A. , Hinojosa, E. de, and la Rada, J. de D. de. Historia de
Espafia desde la invasion de los pueblos germanicos hasta la ruina de la
monarquia visigoda. 2 vols. Madrid. 1890. (In Hist, general de Espafia. )
See Gen. Bibl. vi.
Mene'ndez y Pelayo, M. Historia de los heterodoxos espafioles, i. Madrid. 1879.
Perez Pujol, E. Historia de las instituciones sociales de la Espafia goda. 4 vols.
Valencia. 1896.
2. On Authorities.
Antolin, G. Estudios sobre codices visigodos. BRAH.
1872.
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734 Spain under the Visigoths
II. CONTEMPORARY AUTHORITIES.
1. Latins. Spanish and French.
Anonimus of Cordoba or Toledo, named erroneously, the Paceuse (Isidorus Pacensis).
Chronicon. The best edn. that of Tailhan, Anonyme de Cordoue. Paris. 1885.
(Is the only contemporary authority for the fall of Visigothic kingdom and of
the first years of the Arab conquest. ) (611-764. )
Anonimus, continuator of the above. Chronicon. Ed. Espafia sagrada: theatro
geograph. hist, de la Iglesia de Espana. 52 vols. Ed. Florenz, E. and others.
Vols, xlvji sqq. Ed. for RAH. Madrid. 1754-1879. (Esp. sagrada. ) vi.
3rd edn. , pp. 430-^1.
Anonimus. Libellus de vitis et miraculis Patrum Emeritensium. (Attributed by
Florez to a cleric of Merida, Paulo. ) Ed. Smedt, C. de. Brussels. 1884.
Braulius, Bishop of Saragossa. Liber de Vita B. Aemiliani. Ed. Sandoval,
Fundaciones de San Benito. Madrid. 1601. (For the letters of Braulius, see
Isidore of Seville. )
Bulgaranus, comes. Epistolae. Ed. Heine. Bibl. anecdotorum. Leipsic. 1848.
Idatii episcopi Chronicon. Ed. Garzon, J. M. and Ram, F. X. de. Brussels.
1845. Another edn. in Esp. sagrada, iv, pp. 345-85, with the addition of a little
Idatii Gallaeciae episcopi Chronicon, pp. 420-7. (Special for the first times of
the German invasion and the Suevic kingdom. ) Also ed. Mommsen, Tli. , Chron.
min. MGH. Spanish translation by M. Macias, in Bol. de la Comis. Mon.
Orense.
Isidore of Seville. (St Isidore. ) Historia de Regibus Gothorum, Uvandalorum et
Suevorum (256-621). Ed. Esp. sagrada. vi,' pp. 474-506. A more correct
text in St Isidore Opera. Vol. vn. Rome. 1803. (One of the most valuable
sources in the part relating to the Goths. The author has used the lost Chronicle
of Maximus of Saragossa. )
Chronicon. Ed. Esp. sagrada, vi, pp. 445-68 and Opera vn.
De viris illustribus. Ed. Opera, vu.
Epistolae St Isidori episcopi hispalensis et Braulionis Caesaraugustauis
mutuo directae. Ed. Esp. sagrada. xxxi, pp. 318-95. (The letters of
Braulius are very interesting for the history, both of institutions and of
political events. )
Joannis Biclarensis. Chronicon (567-90). Ed. Esp. sagrada. vi, pp. 375-89. The
continuator of J. of Biclara in pp. 422-32. Another edn. in Chronica minora.
Jordanis. De Getarum sive Gothorum origine et rebus gestis. (Getica. ) Ed.
Mommsen, MGH, auct. ant. v. English translation by Mierow, C.
Princeton. 1808. (The value of the work of Jordanis is that it is an extract
from the lost History of the Goths, written by Cassiodorus. )
Julianus, Bishop of Toledo. Liber de Historia Galliae, quae temporibus Divae
memoriae Principis Uvambae. (Historia Excellentissimi Uvambae Regis. )
Esp. sagrada. vi, pp. 534-63.
Martinus Bracarensis. De correctione rusticorum (572-4). Ed. Caspari, C. P. Chris-
tiania. 1883. (Interesting for the study of the popular beliefs and superstitions
in Gallicia. )
Montani, S. Eugenii III et S. lldephonsi Opera. Ed. Lorenzaua, SS. PP. Tole-
tanorum Opera, i. For the poems of Eugenius, see also MGH (with the poems
of Merobaudes, Dracontius and Eugenius).
Paulus Orosius. Historiarum libri vn, adversus Paganos. Ed. Zangemeister, C.
Vienna. 1882. (Fourth century and the beginning of the fifth. )
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Bibliography 735
Sisebutus. Epist. ol. ie, and Vita vel Passio Sancti Desiderii. Ed. Esp. sagrada.
vii, pp. 309-28 and 328-38.
Tajo, Bishop of Saragossa. Epistola. . . ad Eugenium episcopum Toletanum.
Ed. Balucio, Miscellaneorum, iv and Esp. sagrada, xxxi, pp. 166-70.
Chronicon Imperialis. (379-455. ) MPL. li.
Fredegarius. Chronicon. (584-652. ) See Gen. Bibl. v. Hanover. 1889. (This
Chronicle, attributed by Scaliger to an author named Fredegarius, is really
anonymous.
Till the year 593 is a complement of the Historia of Gregory
of Tours. Since 593 is the only source for the history of Gaul from the end of
the 6th century to the middle of the 7th. )
Gregorius Turonensis. Historia Francorum. (6th century. ) See Gen. Bibl. v.
(Two translations in French; one in German. )
Marius Aventicensis. Chronicon. Ed. Arndt. MGH. Chron. miu. n. Leipsic.
1875-8.
Prosperus Aquitanus. Chronicon. MPL. ij.
Severus Sulpicius. Chronica. MPL. xx. An Epitoma Chronicorum Severi cogno-
mento Sulpicii, in Esp. sagrada, iv, pp. 431-54.
Sidonius Apolliuaris. Epistolarum libri vii and Carmina. Ed. Luetjohann, MGH,
auct. ant. vm. 1887.
2. Arabs.
Akhbar Majmu'a. (Collection of traditions: 11th century. ) Ed. Lafuente
Alcantara, Colec. de obras arabigas. Madrid. 1867-
Anonymous. Fath al-Andalus. (End of the 11th century? ) Ed. Gonzalez, T.
de. Algiers. 1889.
Historical narration added to the Travel of a Moorish ambassador of the 17th
century. Ed. Colec. de obras arabigas, n. Madrid. See Sauvaire, H.
Voyage d'un ambassadeur marocain (1690-1). Paris. 1884.
Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam. History of the Conquest of Spain. Gottingen. 1858.
Ibn al-'Idhari. Al-Bayan al-Mughrib. Ed. Dozy. Leyden. 1848-51. 2 vols.
Partial transl. in Spanish by Fernandez y Gonzalez, Mistorias de Al-Andalus.
Granada. 1860. French transl. with notes by Faguau, E. 2 vols. Algiers,
1901, 1904.
Ibn al-Kiiyya. Chronicle. Ed. Colec. de obras arabigas, ii. (This volume is
unfinished; the translation of Arab text is not printed. Fragments from Ibn
Kutaiba may also be read in it. )
Ibn Khaldun. Histoire des Berberes. Transl. Baron de Slane. Algiers. 1855.
4 vols.
Makkari. Translation of P. de Gayangos. The history of the Mohammedan
dynasties in Spain, by Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Makkarl. London. 1840-3.
(Contents: Ibn Kutaiba and other Arab historians. ) Another ed. of the
Arab text, Dozy. Leyden. 1855-61.
Rabi' ibn Zaid. (Bishop Recemundus. ) Calendar. Ed. Libri, Hist des sciences
mathe'matiques en Italic, i. Dozy. Le Calendrier de Cordoue de l'anne'e 961.
Leyden. 1873.
Rasis. Chronicle of the Moor Rasis. (Till 976. ) Not the original chronicle, but
a version related by an Arab to a Portuguese cleric. See Gayangos. Memoria
sobre la auteuticidad de la Crdnica llamada del Moro Rasis, in Mem. RAH.
1850. (The most ancient Arabic chronicle relating to Spain. )
Tabari. Annales. (10th century. ) Transl. Barth, T. Leyden. 1879-89. See
Gen. Bibl. v.
Other Arabic chronicles will be found in
Codera, F. Bibliotheca arabico-hispana. Madrid. 1891 ff.
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736 Spain under the Visigoths
3. Greeks.
There are some Byzantine historians who can be used as original authorities for
Visigothic Spain, as Olympiodorus, Zosimus, Procopius of Cesarea and Prisons of
Panion. See Bibl. e. n.
III. MODERN WORKS.
1. General.
Dahn, F. Konige der Germanen. See Gen. Bibl. vi.
Die aussere Geschichte der Westgothen. WQrzburg. 1870.
Westgothische Studien. WQrzburg. 1874.
Bausteine. Berlin. 1879-80.
Die Verfassung der Westgothen. 2nd edn. Leipsic. 1885.
Urgeschichte. Spanish trans. Barcelona. 1889. See Gen. Bibl. vi.
Fernandez Guerra, A. , Hinojosa, E. de, and la Rada, J. de D. de. Historia de
Espafia desde la invasion de los pueblos germanicos hasta la ruina de la
monarquia visigoda. 2 vols. Madrid. 1890. (In Hist, general de Espafia. )
See Gen. Bibl. vi.
Mene'ndez y Pelayo, M. Historia de los heterodoxos espafioles, i. Madrid. 1879.
Perez Pujol, E. Historia de las instituciones sociales de la Espafia goda. 4 vols.
Valencia. 1896.
2. On Authorities.
Antolin, G. Estudios sobre codices visigodos. BRAH.
