ABSTRACT
In 1898 Theodor Mommsen identified three manuscript fragments as the remains of a more detailed chronicle of the Vandal kingdom. Mommsen found these fragments in four codices: Par. Lat. 4860, which he defined as a copy of a so called Augiensis,2 Matr. univ. 134 from Madrid, Codex No. 223 from Augsburg and Codex Osmensis, known only from descriptions. In his edition of the Laterculus Regum Vandalorum et Alanorum, which he distinguished from the chronicle of Prosper, Mommsen suggested that the text was composed as a separate chronicle. Holder-Egger had not recognized this independence in his own examination of Prosper’s Chronicle, written shortly before Mommsen’s edition. Scholarship since Mommsen has used only this edition in the Chronica Minora III and has valued the text chiefly for its supposed use of diplomas and hence the precision of its dating.
