Stelle [...] Adque in eandem infelicem Spa...; (Chronica Anni 754 Vel Chronica Muzarabica (754 - 2020), Chroniques Anni 754, 2018 (Gil, ed.), §45 (pp. 351-52)) [5667]

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Text Chronica Anni 754 Vel Chronica Muzarabica (754 - 754) Anonymous - History
Quotation [...] Adque in eandem infelicem Spaniam Cordoba in sede dudum Patricia, que semper extititpre ceteras adiacentes ciuitates opulentissima et regno Wisigothorum primitibas inferebat delicias, regnum efferum conlocant. Quis enim narrare queat tanta pericula? Quis di numerare tam inportuna naufragia? Nam si omnia membra uerterentur in linguam, omnino nequaquam Spanie ruinas uel eius toth tantaque mala dicere poterit humana natura. Sed ut in brebi cuncta legenti renotem pagella, relictis seculi innumerabilibus ab Adam usque nunc cladibus, quas per infinitis regionibus et ciuitatibus crudelis intulit mundus iste inmundus, quidquid historialiter capta Troia pertulit, quidquit Iherosolima predicta per prophetarum eloquia baiulabit, quidquid Babilonia per scripturarum eloquia substulit, quidquid postremo Roma apostolorum nouilitate decorata matririaliter confecit, omnia et toth ut Spania condam deliciosa et nunc misera effecta tam in honore quam etiam in dedecore experibit.
Translation And they established a savage kingdom in the same unhappy Spania in the seat of Cordoba: for a long time a patrician see, which always stood out as most as most opulent above the rest of the adjacent cities and brought early delights to the kingdom of the Visigoths. For who can narrate such great dangers? Who can count such unfortunate sea disasters? For even if all limbs were turned into tongue, human nature will never at all be able to tell of the ruins of Spania and indeed such great evils that befell all of it. But that I may recount to the reader all things in a brief little page, with innumerable calamities of history from Adam all the way to the present left out (this foul, cruel world inflicted them over infinite regions and cities): whatever the captured Troy endured in history, whatever burdens Jerusalem bore as per the prophecies of the prophets, whatever Babilonia endured as per the writings of the scriptures, whatever finally Rome faced in terms of martyrs, decorated nonetheless with the distinguished nobility of the apostles, all these things too and more were experienced in honour and disgrace by Spania, once a delightful land and now rendered wretched. (Al-Tamimi, trans., “The Mozarabic Chronicle”, 2019)
Summary Here the chronicle recounts the founding of the Islamic kingdom centred on Cordoba, and the conquest of Spain and the Visigothic kingdom elaborated with biblical references.
Quotation source Chroniques Anni 754, 2018 (Gil, ed.), §45 (pp. 351-52)
Temporal Coverage 711 - 712
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