Chronicon of the Mecklenburg regents

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The Chronicon of Mecklenburg Regent is one of Nicholas marshal mostly in verse form for Prince Henry V authored work.

Created around the year 1520 , it contains a chronicle of medieval Mecklenburg . The model and model for Marschalk was the chronicle of Ernst von Kirchberg from 1378, which is also in rhyme form .

structure

The chronicle consists of five books, which follow an introductory, extensive dedication (dedication) to the duke.

  • Dedicatio
  • The I. of the kings of the Obetrites and the lords of Mecklenburg with 84 chapters
  • The II. The Lords of Werla or Wenden with 12 chapters
  • The III the Messrs. Kessiner or Rostocker with 4 chapters
  • The IV. The Lords of Stargardo with chapters
  • The V. the old Wends with 10 chapters

Lore

The manuscript is now in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Library in Schwerin and has the signature Ms. 376 . The text was first edited by Ernst Joachim von Westphalen in 1739 in the first volume of his Monumenta inedita rerum Germanicarum praecipue Cimbricarum et Megapolensium .

literature

  • Michael Bischoff: Historical images between fact and fable. Nikolaus Marschalk's rhyming chronicle and its miniatures. ISBN 3-9807816-3-1 , Lemgo 2006.
  • Chronicon of the Mecklenburg regents etc. rhyme-wise. In: Ernst Joachim de Westphalen : Monumenta inedita rerum Germanicarum praecipue Cimbricarum et Megapolensium I, Leipzig 1739, Sp. 561-646.
  • Christa Cordshagen: The influence of the Kirchberg chronicle on historiography, especially the rhyming chronicle of Nikolaus Marschalk. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 115, 2000, pp. 25–41.

Web links

Wikisource: Chronicon of the Mecklenburg Regents  - Sources and full texts