358 Sta7'-Showe7's of Former Times. 



mane visae sunt innumerce stellse mixtim ex omni parte Coeli de- 

 currisse, et in terram decidisse. — Romnaldi Salem. Chron., in 

 Muratori, Rer. It. Scr. t. vii, p. 177. 



Anno 1095, mense Aprilis in nocte diei 4, snbito visi sunt igni- 

 culi cadere de coelo, quasi Stellas per totam Apuliam, qui repleve- 

 runt universara superficiem terrae, et ex tunc coeperunt Galliae 

 populi, imo totius Italias pergere ad sepulchrum Domini cum ar- 

 mis ferentes in humero dextro Crucis signum. — Liipi Protospatce 

 Her. in Reg. Neapol. Gest. Chron., in Muratori, Rer. It. Scr, 

 t. V, p. 47. 



1095. Pridie Nonas Aprilis visae sunt in nocte stellse, quasi de 

 coelo cadere. — Kog. de Hovenden, Annates, 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 eut dit que c'etoient des blu- 

 ettes du debris des orbes celestes." — De Mezeray : Ahrege Chro- 

 nologique de VHist. de France. Amst. 1755. 4to. t. ii, p. 156. 



" Tn 1096 nono [Ctu. nonis] Aprilis in Depositions Sancti Am.- 

 brosii, [Aprilis 4?] vis^ fuerunt in multis locis frequenter in ilia 

 nocte stellse, quoe ceciderunt de coelo, et in Ascensione Domini, 

 quae fuit in illo et eodem anno, et in festivitate Sancti Ambrosii 

 cecidit magna nix." — Chron. Parniefise, in Muratori, Rer. It. 

 Scr. t. ix, p. 760. 



Chladni has mentioned the meteors of this year, {Feuer-Me- 

 teore, pp. 88, 89,) referring for authority to Historice franciccb 

 fragmentum ; in Duchesne : Hist. Franc. Script, t. iv, p. 90.* 



(26.) A. D. 1106. "On the twelfth of February, at Bari, a 

 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 Italias oppidum conspectee 

 sunt ahquot stellse in coelo per diem, nunc quasi inter sese con- 

 currentes, nunc quasi in terram cadentes." — Hist. Feci. Magdeb. 

 tom. vi, p. 1712. 



* In (Short's) Gent. Chr. Hist, of the Air, &c., it is said that in A. D. 1099, 

 " many frightful prodigies were seen : * * * stars seemed to fall to the earth, «fec." 

 Vol. T,p. 104. 



