Chronicon Anianense

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The Chronicon Anianense (the Chronicle of Aniane ) is a medieval manuscript in Latin, in which events from the Franconian Empire are recorded according to years . The reporting period extends from 670 to 840. The chronicle is named after the former Aniane Abbey in Aniane in southern France, the likely place of origin.

The only surviving manuscript of the Chronicon Anianense comes from the 12th century and is now in the French National Library in Paris (Cod. Paris. Lat. 5941). Because of the extensive correspondence with the Chronicon Moissiacense , earlier editions did not separate the two works from each other, but saw them as variants of a work and edited them mixed, i.e. missing passages from one of the other, so that the name Chronicon Moissiacense of the older literature actually referred to two closely related texts, which are now differentiated as Chronicon Moissiacense and Chronicon Anianense . A complete and annotated copy of both texts can be found in the appendix to the “ Subsidia Anianensia ” by Walter Kettemann.

The Chronicon Anianense was based on a lost manuscript from the 9th century, which Kettemann calls Annales Benedicti Anianenses (Annals of Benedict of Aniane ). This annals also served as a template for the related Chronicon Moissiacense . Both the Chronicle from Aniane and the Chronicle from Moissac therefore show great similarities in terms of content. In contrast to the Chronicle of Moissac, the Annales Benedicti Anianensis was probably expanded in the 9th century by incorporating news from Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni into a likewise lost Historia Karoli gloriosi (History of Charlemagne ), which is now the template for the Chronicon in Aniane Anianense made. The property of the Chronicon Anianense consists primarily of some historically falsified passages (for example, a Saxon procession of Charlemagne is forged into a procession against the Saracens by forging place and river names) and passages that are supposed to prove a special relationship between Charlemagne and Aniane Abbey , but also in news that specifically concern the south of France.

literature

  • Georg Heinrich Pertz a . a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 1: Annales et chronica aevi Carolini. Hanover 1826, pp. 280–313 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  • Georg Heinrich Pertz a . a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 2: Scriptores rerum Sangallensium. Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Carolini. Hanover 1829, pp. 257-259 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  • Walter Kettemann: Subsidia Anianensia. Studies of tradition and textual history on the history of Witiza-Benedict, his Aniane monastery and the so-called "Anian Reform". With commentary editions of the Vita Benedicti Anianensis, Notitia de servitio monasteriorum, the Chronicon Moissiacense / Anianense and two local traditions from Aniane. Dissertation, Duisburg 2000. ( PDF, 10.3 MB )

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