Chronicon Gradense
The Chronicon Gradense is one of the oldest sources in Venice . The basis was Codex H, V, 44 in the library of the Seminario Patriarcale in Venice. Georg Heinrich Pertz got in 1846, with the assistance of the Vatican codices Urbinate 440 (early 11th century), Vaticano 5269 (first half of the 13th century) and the Marciano Latino X, 141 (late 15th century), the Edition . He erroneously attributed it to Johannes Diaconus as the author.
The first part may have been compiled by two scribes, and it was only later that a complete work emerged from it. The focus was on Torcello and the development of the Grado patriarchate . The second part consists of the Cronica de singulis patriarchis Nove Aquileie , but was not copied from the Codex Barberini on which it is based, because the long section on the heretical patriarch Fortunatus is missing in the Chronicon Gradense . According to Giovanni Monticolo , however, this omission makes no sense in the context of Gradense. In addition, the Vatican handwriting is more accurate, while the Barberini handwriting shows that the meaning of the text was not always understood when copying it. In addition, the author of the Chronicon Gradense did not take over the list of patriarchs up to Orso Orseolo , which could indicate that this was added later in the Barberini Codex. After all, the burial site is given from Venerius to Vitalis the younger, while it is missing afterwards. So the second part has no independent value for the reconstruction of local history.
Edition
- Iohannis Chronicon Gradense , in: Georg Heinrich Pertz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 7: Chronica et gesta aevi Salici. Hanover 1846, pp. 39–47 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
literature
- Giovanni Monticolo : Cronache veneziane antichissime , Rome 1890, pp. XIII-XVII.
- Roberto Cessi (ed.): Origo civitatum Italie seu Venetiarum (Chronicon Altinate et Chronicon Gradense) , Tipografia del Senato, Rome 1933 (= Fonti per la storia d'Italia, 73). ( Digitized version )
Web links
- Entry in the Repertory Chronicarum of Mississippi State University
Remarks
- ^ Giovanni Monticolo : Cronache veneziane antichissime , Rome 1890, p. XIII f, considered it to be the second oldest after the Cronica de singulis patriarchis Nove Aquileie .
- ^ Giovanni Monticolo: Cronache veneziane antichissime , Rome 1890, p. XIII.