JOHANN CARION: CHRONICON

A chronicle and universall history contayninge the most memorable things happened in the ffower soveraigne Empires, Kingdomes and Commonwealthes, and in the goverment of the Church since the beginninge of the world untill the Emperour Charles the Ffifte etc. Composed first by John Carion, then augmented, inlardged and inritched with divers histories as well ecclesiasticall as politique, ancient and modern, by Phillip Melancton and Gaspar Peucer, and comprehended in ffyve books, translated out of latin into ffrench [by Simon Goulart]. Hereunto are newly added twoe books [by Simon Goulart] conteyninge the notablest things happened in Europe under the Empire of Charles the ffifte, Ferdinand the first, Maximilian the second and Rudolph the second. ffirst tome'. Preface addressed to Eberwin [Wirich], Count of Bentheim (1576-1596) by S.G.S. [Simon Goulart, of Senlis] dated 15 March 1595. The English text in this manuscript ends with an account of the reign of the Emperor Maximilian (1459-1515) and does not include Goulart's continuation of the chronicle. The chronicle by Johann Carion (1499-1537), known as the Chronicon Carionis, a chronicle of ecclesiastical events beginning in the ancient world and culminating in a Protestant account of the post-Reformation era. It was begun in the 1530s by Carion, and continued and extended by Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) and Caspar Peucer (1525-1602). Simon Goulart (1543-1628) added a further extension and a translation into French. The present English translation appears to have been made from the edition of Goulart's French translation published in 1595: 'Chronique et histoire universelle, Contenant les choses plus memorables avenues ès quatre souverains empires, royaumes, republiques, et au gouvernement de l'Eglise, depuis le commencement du monde jusques à l'empereur Charles cinquiesme. Dressée premièrement par Jean Carion, puis augmentée, amplement exposée et enrichie de diverses histoires tant ecclesiastiques que politiques, anciennes et odernes, par Ph. Melanchthon et Gaspar Peucer, et reduite en cinq livres, traduits de latin en françois. Plus deux livres adjoustez de nouveau aux cinq autres, comprenans les choses notables avenues en l'Europe sous l'empire de Charles cinquiesme, Ferdinand premier, Maximilian second, et Rodolphe second. Tome premier ... (Geneva, 1595).

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