Fragmentary Troia Chronicle

[2] The earliest copy is the edition included by Alessio Aurelio Pelliccia in his De Christianae Ecclesiae primae, mediae et novissimae aetatis Politia, printed in 1779 and again in 1782.

This edition was based on a parchment codex copied by Giovanni Francesco Rossi in the 16th century and given to Pelliccia by his friend Lodovico Vuolo along with a trove of old documents.

It describes the transfer to Troia in that year of the relics of three saints: Bishop Eleutherius, the confessor Anastasius and Pope Pontianus.

This interlude appears to have as one of its sources the 12th-century In translatione sanctorum martirum Euletherii, Pontiani atque confessoris Anastasii by the Troian precentor Roffred.

It contains two subheadings, Dedicatio Ecclesiae S. Vincentii de Troya ('Dedication of the Church of St Vincent of Troia') and Corrigia Troyana.

[12] The third section contains ten privileges issued to the diocese of Troia between 1066 and sometime after 1231, when the Emperor Frederick II introduced the augustalis coin.

All but one of these documents can also be found in Vincenzo Aceto di San Severo's two-volume manuscript Troia Sagra from 1728.

[14] Noting that some of its material can be corroborated with other sources, Vera von Falkenhausen concludes that "the Chronicle of Troia is more reliable than its reputation".

[15] According to Paul Oldfield, "while we cannot ... ascertain when certain parts of the [Chronicle] were first compiled, the current evidence suggests that we can tentatively proceed on the basis that the [its] information does contain some reliability in the annalistic section ... offset by inaccuracies particularly linked to the transmission of the text.