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[Kölner Weltchronik; Annales S. Panthaleonis Coloniensis maximi] 1237 or shortly thereafter. Germany. Latin world chronicle from the Benedictine abbey of St. Pantaleon in Cologne. This chronicle, which did not circulate far from its place of origin, reports the history of the Four World Empires ( regna maxima) from an imperial point of view, starting ab Orbe condita and running to the year 1237. For the period before 1200, the works of Flavius Josephus, Orosius, Justin, Bede, Regino of Prüm, Peter Comestor, the Chronica regia Coloniensis and numerous other sources are compiled.…

ca 1440-1502. Switzerland, then Germany. Born in Zürich as Felix Schmid. Observant Dominican priest-friar, lector of the priory and preacher first in Basel, later in Pforzheim, and finally in Ulm, where he died. Author of the Latin Descriptio Theutoniae, Sueviae et civitatis Ulmensis, de eius origine et regimine et de eius civibus.Fabri is well-known for his detailed description of his pilgrimages ( Evagatorium in Terrae Sanctae , Arabiae et Egypti peregrinationem). In fact, his history of Swabia and Ulm was originally intended to be the last chapter of his travel…