Chronicon Casauriense

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Paris. lat. 5411, fol. 85v: Emperor Ludwig II is shown at the end of the entry in his deed for the monastery

The Chronicon Casauriense is a Chartular chronicle that was created towards the end of the 12th century in the monastery of San Clemente a Casauria by the monk Johannes Berardi on behalf of Abbot Leonas . It covers the history of the monastery from its founding in the 9th century to 1182, the year the client died. The importance of the monastery as an imperial foundation is emphasized, and the chronicler viewed the spread of Norman rule in Abruzzo with skepticism. A magister rusticus calls himself the scribe of the manuscript .

The actual chronicle text on the inner margin of the sheets is accompanied by the copies of the document texts on the rest of the sheet. The chronicle is the main source for the documentary tradition of the abbey today, as only a few original documents have survived in the Fondo Chigi (Chis. E.VI. 182–188) of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana . The privileges of Popes Leo IX are still available to control the chronicler 's work. of 1051 and Alexander III. of 1166 available. With Clemens III. of 1189 and Cölestin III. From 1191 the tradition independent of the chronicle begins. Only a notarial copy from 1380 has survived for Ludwig II's diploma from 875, in which the external characteristics are traced. However, the authenticity of the emperor's documents is disputed.

The manuscript is now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris (Paris. Lat. 5411), since it was kidnapped as booty during the Neapolitan campaign of Charles VIII .

Editions

  • Liber instrumentorum seu chronicorum monasterii Casauriensis. Codicem Parisinum Latinum 5411 quam simillime expressum edidimus L'Aquila 1982 (Amministrazione provinciale dell'Aquila. Comitato per il V ° centenario della introduzione della stampa in Abruzzo) with an introduction by Alessandro Pratesi

literature

  • Alessandro Pratesi : Casauria . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 2, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-7608-8902-6 , Sp. 1545 f. with literature on the Chronicon.
  • Luigi Pellegrini : Abruzzo medievale. Un itinerario storico attraverso la documentazione . Altavilla Silentina (SA) 1988, pp. 9, 11, 26, 20-30, 62
  • Laurent Feller : Le cartulaire-chronique de San Clemente a Casauria. In: Olivier Guyotjeannin , Laurent Morelle, Michel Parisse (eds.): Les Cartulaires: Actes de la table ronde organisée par l'Ecole nationale des chartes et le GDR 121 du CNRS (Paris, 5-7 December 1991) . Paris: Ecole des chartes 1993, pp. 261–277 (Mémoires et documents de l'École des chartes, 39)

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ A table of contents and descriptions of the manuscript can already be found in Bartolommeo Capasso - Oreste Mastrojanni: Le fonti della storia delle provincie Napolitane dal 568 al 1500 , Napoli 1902, pp. 75–78
  2. ↑ It contains over 2000 documents.
  3. ↑ Overview of the original documents from Abruzzo in the Fondo Chigi Online version of the appendix from Horst Enzensberger : Building blocks for the source study of Abruzzo in the Middle Ages , in: Contributi per una storia dell'Abruzzo adriatico nel medioevo . A cura di Roberto Paciocco e Luigi Pellegrini (Studi e fonti di storia medioevale, moderna e contemporanea, 1) Chieti 1992, pp. 133-190
  4. ↑ Chis. E.VI.182 perg. 6th
  5. ↑ Chis. E.VI.182 perg. 25th
  6. ↑ Chis. E.VI.182 perg. 30th
  7. ↑ Chis. E.VI.182 perg. 33
  8. ^ Herbert Zielinski : On the founding documents of Emperor Ludwig II for the Casauria monastery . In: Forgeries in the Middle Ages. International Congress of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica Munich, 16.-19. September 1986 , Volume IV, pp. 67-96, Hannover 1988
  9. ↑ Chis. E.VI.186 perg. 10: Charles VIII of France for Casauria from March 20, 1495 with the signature of the king.