EDITOR’S ANNOTATIONS TO THE PATROLOGIA
A (a) Col. 63. Henschenius shows in his Dissertation, ch. 2, that the Alexandrians, whose era Theophanes uses, counted sixteen fewer years in worldly matters, and subtracted eight years from the Christian era.
(b) Col. 75. From here up to the Emperor Julian, Theophanes falls short by one year in his Alexandrian era, both in worldly and Christian reckoning. See Henschenius’s Dissertation, ch. 3.
(c) Col. 167. Theophanes attributes three years to Julian, when he did not reign for more than one year and eight months. From this, it follows that by adding the one year which was missing for him from the beginning of the reign of Constantine the Great (above, col. 75), he here receives it, and thereafter accurately describes the Alexandrian era (which we know to be deficient by eight years) up to the times of Phocas and Heraclius.
(d) Col. 339. See *Acta Sanctorum*, vol. X of October, p. 679.
(e) Col. 331. Henschenius advises that *τὸ πέμπτῳ* should be deleted. *Dissert.*, ch. V.
(f) Col. 374. *Acta SS.*, vol. X of October, pp. 688 and 690.
(g) Col. 489. See ibid., p. 695.
(h) Col. 499. One must read *πεντεκαιδεκάτῃ* [fifteenth], and in line 2 of the following paragraph, the fourteenth indiction. See his Dissertation, ch. V.
(i) Col. 502. Read only *decimo* [tenth], because the solar cycle 2, with Sunday letter E, fell on the 10th and not the 15th day. HENSCHENIUS.
(j) Col. 510. The Sunday letter E of solar cycle 13 demands that you read the 27th day, or the fourth day of the week. HENSCHENIUS.
(k) Col. 531. See *Acta SS.*, October vol. X, p. 698 (coll. p. 760) and 689.
(m) Col. 659. Henschenius explains clearly in his Dissertation, ch. IV, how this Theophanes conflated the 15th and 17th years of Heraclius into one.
(n) Col. 687. Read *decimo tertio* [thirteenth]; for at the beginning of the paragraph he is said to have been born on the seventh day. See Henschenius in the cited Dissertation.
(o) Col. 691. Henschenius corrects this passage, ch. V.
(p) Col. 723. Henschenius corrects the eighth.
(q) Col. 826. When the Sunday letter was A, it is apparent that the day of the month was the 17th. HENSCH.
(r) Col. 871. Theophanes here confuses the martyrdoms of St. Andrew, called "in Crisi," and St. Peter of Blachernae, about whom he has little to say regarding the Alexandrian year 759. See *Acta SS.*, vol. VIII of October, p. 128 fol. Therefore, one must read in this place: "Constantine the persecutor [seized] the venerable monk Peter," etc. And a little further down: "(but his sisters, Peter himself)," etc. However, St. Peter of Blachernae suffered on the 16th of May, 761.
(s) Col. 879. Theophanes here narrates many things in one continuous flow, and confuses events that happened in different years. Specifically, towards the end of the year of the Dionysian era, 763, St. Stephen the Younger was seized from his cell on Mount Auxentius and carried by sea to Chrysopolis, and soon sent into exile to Proconnesus. In 766, towards the end, the same saint, returning from exile, was placed in prison, first for some days in the Phiale, then in the Praetorium. Finally, in 767, in the 53rd year of his age (not indeed after 60 years spent in seclusion, as Theophanes writes), on the 28th of November, he received the palm of martyrdom. See *Acta SS.*, vol. VIII of October, p. 131.
(t) Col. 891. This and what follows should be understood as regarding St. Andrew "in Crisi," who was crowned with martyrdom on the 20th of October, 767. See at the year 753.
(u) Col. 950. See Henschenius, ch. V, n. 41.
(v) Col. 983. In the year 804, Leo, Duke of the Armeniacs under the Emperor Nicephorus, with a great part of his army and treasury, fell into the hands of the Saracens, in the month of February of the fourth indiction (it is written erroneously as "fourteenth" in Anastasius), on the first Sabbath of Lent. But in that year, lunar cycle 14, solar cycle 8, Sunday letter E, Easter was on the 12th of April, and so the said Sabbath fell on the 7th of March. Therefore, lest Theophanes have erred in the very year in which he could have written, and in which he correctly composed many other chronological notes, it must be believed that due to the carelessness of copyists long ago (for even Anastasius found it so written) one word had fallen out, and that Theophanes himself (as we have seen in a similar case regarding the Indiction in the 28th year of Constantine, and regarding the spring time in the *Chronicon Alexandrinum*) had written: *μέλλοντος, εἴτουν ἀνισταμένου τοῦ πρώτου Σαββάτου τῶν Νηστειῶν* [impending, or arising, the first Sabbath of the Fasts]. HENSCHENIUS.
(x) Col. 1179. From this place, and likewise from numbers 24 and 27, and finally from the Life of Henschenius, volume VII of May, numbers 9, 10, and 46, it appears that the aforementioned hagiographer, who illustrated the *Acts of Anastasius the Persian*, either wrote the present exegesis, or at least contributed much to it; for it is ascribed by some to Papebrochius. That the reader may learn how this came to be, let him note that in the *Acta Sanctorum*, third volume of March, it bears no prefix name. To say what I feel, it seems to me that Henschenius collected most of the things contained therein at various times, but Papebrochius, when he was pressed by age and the fatigue of a colleague, adorned them with his own style of speaking. We, however, who have denoted in various places the chronological notes taken from this exegesis with the name of Henschenius, have judged that the exegesis itself should be inscribed with the same name.
(y) Col. 1181. These things were said contrary to the truth and must be corrected. For St. Maximus in his *Computus ecclesiasticus*, ch. 33: *τὴν ἐπινέμησιν, ἣν ινδικτιῶνα Ῥωμαῖοι καλοῦσι...* [the *epinemesis*, which the Romans call the indiction...]; and Ducange brings forward other things of this kind in his *Greek Glossary*. Nevertheless, the author of the dissertation correctly interprets the words of Heraclius, as is evident from the same edition by Ducange of the *Chronicon Alexandrinum* (which he himself called *Paschale*), where the words are produced in this manner: *τῇ γὰρ κδ' τοῦ παρελθόντος Φεβρουαρίου μηνὸς τῆς ἐνισταμένης πρώτης ἐπινεμήσεως* [For on the 24th of the past month of February, of the first *epinemesis* currently in progress]. Since Ducange translates it thus: "For on the 24th of February of the past month, of the first Indiction," etc.