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Annales Floreffienses 625 Latin late 15th c. Annals compiled at the abbey of Floreffe (near Namur, in Belgium) on the basis of 12th century material. It includes information from ancient times up to 1492 (Guidoboni and Comastri, 2005). 1170. There was an earthquake in the region of Outremer, in which as many Christian cities as pagan were overthrown.
Annales Colonienses maximi 121 Latin late 15th c. drawn up in the 1170s by a canon of Cologne cathedral, and continued up to 1220 (Guidoboni and Comastri, 2005). 1170... An earthquake in the East overthrew several cities, as many Christian as pagan.
Annales Gastinenses 774 Latin late 15th c. Shortened version of the Annales Uticenses, continued from 1161 to 1226 by the Benedictine monks of the abbey of Gatines (France) (Guidoboni and Comastri, 2005). 1170... In the regions of Outremer there was a great earthquake in the kingdom of Jerusalem, such that around 30 towns and villages collapsed; part of Antioch fell
Sembat, RHC a.Arm. 619/624 Latin (a.Arm. 619) On 19th June a violent earthquake was felt which overthrew the ramparts of Antioch and Aleppo. The magnificent church [of St Peter] in Antioch collapsed, and buried many people within its ruins.
Additional Latin sources listed by Guidoboni and Comastri (2005) include
  • Annales Pisani of Bernardo Maragone, a politician and ambassador of Pisa
  • Annales Vizeliacenses from the abbey of Vezelay: they go back to the middle of the 12th century, and were continued up to 1343
  • Annales Admuntenses from the abbey of Admont, compiled by various hands from the second half of the 12th century up to 1250
Guidoboni et al, 2004 note that a passing mention of the earthquake can be found in Chronicon Ad Annum 1234.

Online Versions and Further Reading
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Ann. Flor. - Annales Floreffienses, ed. L. Bethmann, MGH, SS16, 1869, pp. 618–631 (compiled from 1140).

Annales Floreffienses, ed. L. Bethmann, MGH, SS 16, Hannover 1859, pp.618-31.

Annales Forolivienses ab origin urbis usque ad annum 1473, ed. G.Mazzatinti, RIS2 22/2, Citta di Castello 1903-1909.

Ann. Col. Max. - Annales Colonienses maximi, ed. G. Waitz, MGH, SRG 18, 1880.

Annales Colonienses maximi see Chronica Regia Coloniensis.

Chronica Regia Coloniensis (Annales Colonienses maximi) ed. G.Waitz, MGH, SRG in usum scholarum separatim editi 18, Hannover 1880, pp.1-299.

Ann. Gast. - Annales Gastinenses, in RHG 12, 1781, pp. 773–774; 18, 1822, pp. 322–323

Sembat, RHC a.Arm. 619/624

Sembt.: Sembat (Smbat, Sempad, Cempad), Chronicle, RHC, Doc.Armen., vol. 1, Paris, 1869; La chronique attribuee au conn ´ etable Smbat ´ , ed. and trans. G. Ded´ eyan, Paris: Geuthner, 1980

Annales Pisani antiquissimi, in F.Novati, Un nuovo testo degli "Annales Pisani Antiquissimi" e le prime lotte di Pisa contro gli Arabi, Centenario della nascita di Michele Amari, vol.2, Palermo 1910, p.13

Annales Vizeliacenses, ed. R.Huygens, CC-CM 42, Turnhout 1976, pp.195-233.

Ann. Vizel.: Annales Vizeliacenses, ed. R. Huygens, in Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, 42 (1976), 195–233.

Ann. Admont.: Annales Admontenses, ed. W. Wattenbach, MGH SS9, 1851, pp. 570–593.