one for the monastery of Saint Avoldus near Metz, and the other was copied by 772 AD for the monastery of Saint-Wandrille and then came to the monastery of St Peter in Wissembourg. In 1894 the text of the three manuscripts were juxtaposed in a publication contributed by Giovanni Battista de Rossi and Louis Duchesne to the monumental Acta Sanctorum, which prepared the way for a critical edition published by Henri Quentin in 1931 along with a historical commentary by the Bollandist Hippolyte Delehaye, again in connection with the Acta Sanctorum, Scholars generally assume that in the lists of martyrs that head each day's entry, newer additions were added at the bottom of the lists, and thus the first names are most likely to be those from the lost earliest versions of the Martyrologium Hieronymianum. Contents The material preserved in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum is such that highly specialist training is needed to evaluate it. Derived as the material often is from calendars, it is no surprise that the greater part of the entries contain only summary lists of names and places, for example: "On the third day before the Ides of January, at Rome, in the [catacomb] cemetery of Callixtus, on the Appian Way, was buried Miltiades, the bishop". The first "historical" martyrologies, (containing narrative history of the life of a saint), would not flower until the Carolingian period, starting with the martyrology of Bede. See also Martyrology of Usuard Florus of Lyon Ado of Vienne Rabanus Maurus – Carolingian author of martyrologies Notker Balbulus – Carolingian author of martyrologies References Further reading Giovanni Battista de Rossi and Louis Duchesne, editors, Martyrologium Hieronymianum in Acta Sanctorum LXXXII November, part II (1894) Hippolyte Delehaye, Commentarius perpetuus in Martyrologium Hieronymianum ad recensionem H. Quentin in Acta Sanctorum XXIV November 11, part II]. (Brussels, 1931) Jacques Dubois, O.S.B., Les martyrologes du Moyen Âge latin 1978 Catholic Encyclopedia:"Martyrology", "Chair of Peter", "Sts. Quirinus", etc. Latin transcription and notes, in McCulloh, John M. (1987). "Martyrology", Dictionary of the Middle Ages (vol.8) Martyrologies Latin pseudepigrapha 6th-century Latin books 6th-century Christian texts Jerome