The ''Chronicon Ambrosianum'' ( es, Cronicón ambrosiano) or ''Chronica parva Ambrosianum'' ("short Ambrosian chronicle") is a set of exceedingly terse

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that, together with the '' Annales Compostellani'' and the ''

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'', forms a group of related histories. These were collectively labelled the ''Efemérides riojanas'' by Manuel Gómez-Moreno, who thought they had been compiled in

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. The ''Chronicon'' is named after the

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, where its manuscript was discovered. It was first published by Ludovico Antonio Muratori. The ''Chronicon'' contains a list of ten feast days with the names of their saints and seventeen years, each described by one event. The first event, in Spanish era, Era 38, is the nativity of Jesus. Besides deaths, the only events mentioned are the Massacre of the Innocents (Era 47), the passion of Jesus (Era 69), the assumption of John the Evangelist (Era 108), and the prophesying of Mohammed (Era 656). The final year (Era 1208, that is, AD 1170), though it is placed out of chronological order, is the death of Thomas Becket. The last event in the list is the death of Juan de Ortega (hermit), Juan de Ortega (''Johannes de Urteca'', Era 1201, that is, 1163).

Editions

*In Ludovico Antonio Muratori, ed. ''Rerum italicarum scriptores'', II (Milan: 1724), col. 1024. *In Enrique Flórez, ed. ''España Sagrada''
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(Madrid: 1767), 304–5. *In Miguel Bravo Tedín, ed. ''Efemérides riojanas''. La Rioja: Editorial Canguro, 1992.

References

*Conerly, Porter (1993). "Cronicones," p. 469. ''Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula'', vol. 1. Germán Bleiberg, Maureen Ihrie, and Janet Pérez, edd. (Greenwood Publishing Group, {{ISBN, 0-313-28731-7). Latin texts