Annales Petaviani

Annales Petaviani ("Yearbooks of Petau") is the modern name for an early medieval historical work in Latin.

The name goes back to the previous owner of one of the two manuscripts that André Duchesne used for his first edition in the Historiae Francorum scriptores under the title Annales alii Francorum ab anno DCCVIII usque ad annum DCCC , the French book collector and councilor at the Parlement de Paris , Alexandre Petau. The annals deal with the period from 708 to 799 in regular records. The description up to 771 is, however, a compilation from older sources, before the independent representation begins. The annals contain some valuable information for the Carolingian era , for example with regard to the presumed year of birth of Charlemagne .

literature

Georg Heinrich Pertz a . a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 1: Annales et chronica aevi Carolini. Hannover 1826, pp. 3-18 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ). Reprint: Hiersemann, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7772-6305-2 .

Web links

Annales Petaviani in the repertory "Geschichtsquellen des Deutschen Mittelalter", digital extended edition of the repertory Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi (11 volumes. 1962–2007).

Remarks

^ André Duchesne: Historiae Francorum scriptores coaetanei , Volume 2, Paris 1636, pp. 6-10
^ Son of the antiquarian Paul Petau, who also worked for the Parliament.

[1] André Duchesne: Historiae Francorum scriptores coaetanei , Volume 2, Paris 1636, pp. 6-10

[2] Son of the antiquarian Paul Petau, who also worked for the Parliament.