Chronicon of the Mecklenburg regents
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
- Literature on Chronicon of the Mecklenburg regents in the state bibliography MV
- Nikolaus Marschalk's Mecklenburg Reimchronik is listed on page 2285 in the manuscript census - an inventory of the handwritten tradition of German-language texts from the Middle Ages .