The ''Auctarium Prosperi Havniense'', or ''Continuatio Prosperi Havniensis'', is a continuation of the ''Chronicle'' of
Prosper of Aquitaine
Prosper of Aquitaine ( la, Prosper Aquitanus; – AD), a Christian writer and disciple of Augustine of Hippo, was the first continuator of Jerome's Universal Chronicle.
Life
Prosper was a native of Aquitaine, and may have been educated at B ...
, embodied in a manuscript at
Copenhagen
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( la, Havnia, hence ''Havniense''); it was given this appellation by
Theodor Mommsen
Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen (; 30 November 1817 – 1 November 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th cent ...
, its editor.
Editions
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Mommsen, Theodorus, ed. (1892)
''Prosperi Continuatio Havniensis''(in Latin). ''
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
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. Auctores antiquissimi. Chronica minora saec. IV.V.VI.VII''. Vol. 9/1. Berolini: apud Weidmannos. pp. 266–271 and pp. 298–339.
French chronicles
Frankish historians
Late Antique Latin-language writers
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