258 Star-Showers of Former Times. 
mané vise sunt innumere stelle mixtim ex omni parte Ceeli de- 
currisse, et in terram decidisse.—Romualdi Salern. Chron., in 
Muratori, Rer. It. Scr. t. vii, p. 177. 
Anno 1095, mense Aprilis in nocte diei 4, subito visi sunt igni- a 
culi cadere de ceelo, quasi stellee per totam Apuliam, qui repleve- 
runt universam superficiem terre, et ex tune caperun Gallize 
populi, im6 totius Italie pergere ad sepulchrum Domini cum ar- 
mis ferentes in humero dextro Crucis signum.—Lupi Protospate 
Rer.in Reg. Neapol. Gest. Chron., in Muratori, Rer. It. Ser. 
t. v, p. 47. : 
1095. Pridie Nonas Aprilis vise sunt in nocte stella, quasi de 
ccelo cadere.—Rog. de Hovenden, Annales, pars prior. fol. Lond. 
1596. fol. 266. 
(25.) 1096. “During many nights stars were seen to rain 
down at intervals, but so thick and fast, that one would have said 
they were flakes from the celestial orbs.” - 
~ “On vit durant plusieurs nuits pleuvoir des Etoiles par inter 
vales, mais si dru et menu, qu’on eit dit que e’étoient des blu- 
ettes du débris des orbes célestes.”—De Mezeray: Abrégé Chro- 
nologique de U Hist. de France. Amst. 1755. Ato. t. ii 156. 
“Tn 1096 nono [Qu. nonis] Aprilis in Depositione Sancti Am- 
brosii, [Aprilis 4?] visee fuerunt in multis locis-frequenter in illa 
nocte stelle, quee ceciderunt de colo, et in Ascensione Domin}, 
qu fuit in illo et eodem anno, et in festivitate Sancti Ambrosi! 
cecidit magna nix.”——Chron. Parmense, in Muratori, Rer. It. 
Ser. t. ix, p. 760. . 
Chladni has mentioned the meteors of this year, (Fewer-Me- 
teore, pp. 88, 89,) referring for authority to Historie sranee 
fragmentum ; in Duchesne: Hist. Franc. Script. t. 1, P- ¥’ 
» -(26.) A. D. 1106. “On the twelfth of February, at Bari, 4 
town in Italy, were seen by day several stars in the sky, some 
times apparently running together, and sometimes apparently fall- 
ing to the earth.” | 
“ Pridie idus Februarii apud Barum Italie oppidum conspecte 
sunt aliquot stelle in celo per diem, nune quasi inter sese _ 
currentes, nunc quasi‘in terram cadentes.”—Hist. Eccl. Magae- 
2. ; ad 
tom. vi, p. 
* In (Short’s) Genl. Chr. Hist. of the Air, &c., it is said. that in A. D. rag 
“many frightful prodigies were seen: * * * stars seemed to fall to the earth, © 
. 104. 
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