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from the year 1125, and ends with the year " Another also anonymous chronicler is the Monk 1 142. of Sazava," He has incorporated the whole of Cosmas' chronicle with his work, but has added many interesting facts, some of which refer to his own monastery. The monastery on the Savaza had, since the year 1096, been in the hands of friars who used the Latin ritual, but our author relates the foundation of his abbey by St. Prokop, and the subsequent disputes between the German and Bohemian monks (so vividly described in the Legend of St, Prokop'^) with an impartiality that From the end of the year deserves the highest praise. Cosmas' chronicle ends, to the year 1 1 25, with which 1 162, the last of which his own work treats, the monk His of Sazava of course writes more independently. work is on the whole trustworthy, and he often writes of contemporary events as an eye-witness. It however, to be regretted that the annals of the last years, when the monk no longer had Cosmas for guide, are written in briefer, more succinct manner than the earlier parts of the book, for the writer here dealing with some of the most obscure years of Bohemian history. Several minor chronicles, also written in Latin, and probably by ecclesiastics, are also to be counted among the continuations of Cosmas' work. Such chronicles are that of Vincent, canon of Prague, dealing with the years 167, and that of Gerlach or Jarloch, abbot of 140 to Muhlhausen. Jarloch's chronicle begins with the year 1167, and the existent portion ends with the year 1198. however, probable that he continued his work to far later date, perhaps nearly up to the time of his death, which only occurred in 1228. After the year 1198 we 1

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