Commentary
Liber concordie novi ac veteris Testamenti
Joachim of Fiore
Joachim of Fiore’s Book of the Concord of the New and Old Testaments, first printed at Venice in 1519. It matches generations of the Old and New Testaments and counts forty-two generations of thirty years from Christ, which it equates with the forty-two months, the 1260 days and the “time and times and half a time”.
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Edition and location
Joachim of Fiore, Liber concordie novi ac veteris Testamenti (Venice: Simon de Luere, 1519), book V, chapter 118, fol. 134r, right column (Internet Archive ita-bnc-mag-00002895-001, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze copy, leaf n281), from “Namque vt supra scripsimus” to “generationes 42e.” Abbreviations expanded (vsq; vsque, vo vero, generatões generationes, Tironian et, ꝓ pro, q̃drag quadrag, ꝯm secundum, cẽtum centum, q̃ꝫuis quamuis, ꝗ qui, tpis temporis); the printed “quadragitadue” and the superscript of “42e” kept; u/v and i/j usage, capitals, virgules (/) and punctuation as printed; spacing normalized. English translation new (Rainbow Watch, 2026). Transcribed from the Internet Archive page image.
Book V, chapter 118, fol. 134r