Chronicle
A Latin chronicle of the years 567 to 590 by a Spanish abbot, dated by the years of the emperors at Constantinople and of the Visigothic kings. It notes in one line each the conversion of a people it calls Maccurritae and their embassy to Justin II.
John, abbot of the monastery of Biclaro in Spain, continued the chronicle of Victor of Tunnuna from the accession of the emperor Justin II. He dates each entry by the emperor’s regnal year and by that of the Visigothic king; the years of our era in the margin are the editor’s, printed with a question mark.
Among short notices of events in the East he records, under the third year of Justin, that the people of the “Maccurritae” received the faith of Christ at that time, and under the seventh that their envoys came to Constantinople with elephant tusks and a giraffe and made friendship with the Romans. He says no more about them. The name is close to that of the Makoritae of Nubia in John of Ephesus; Mommsen’s own note on the passage takes them instead for the Makkourai of Mauretania Caesariensis named by Ptolemy.
Cited in
- about AD 543 to AD 580, estimated date