Chronicle of Heinrichs Taube von Selbach

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As a chronicle of Heinrichs Taube von Selbach ( lat.Chronica Heinrici Surdi de Selbach , also Annales rerum ab imperatoribus Adolpho, Alberto, Friderico, Ludovico Bavarico et Carolo IV. Gestarum or Annales imperatorum et paparum ) one of the Magister Heinrich Taube von Selbach († 1364), a cleric and lawyer in Eichstätt , wrote a fact - rich Middle Latin chronicle from the 14th century , which describes the imperial and papal politics in the period from 1294 to 1363. Although the work is moderate in its assessment of the political disputes, it is rather hostile towards Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian .

The chronicle consists of two parts: The first part extends to 1343. It is a continuation of the Flores temporum , the world chronicle of a Swabian Franciscan (Hermannus Minorita or Martinus Minorita), and its structure follows the imperial and papal policies in separate sections. This first section was probably created around 1346/1347. The second part of the chronicle is a history of the period from 1343 to 1363.

Manuscripts

The chronicle is preserved in several manuscripts:

  • A : Text up to 1343, not preserved, accepted model for the following manuscripts:
    • A1 : Austrian National Library Vienna, cod. 3284 * (previously Rec. 3118), written in 1380 in the Lower Austrian monastery of Mauerbach, written by Ulrich Silberschnoll, a canon of Klosterneuburg; the Eichstätter Chronik as a continuation of the Flores temporum , f. 45-55
    • A2 : Klosterneuburg Abbey Library , cod. 699; the Eichstätter Chronik as a continuation of the Flores temporum , f. 57–69 - Text form identical to A1
    • A2a : Klosterneuburg Abbey Library, cod. 699 - literally copied from A2 in the 15th century
    • A3 : Austrian National Library Vienna, cod. 3408 (formerly Univers. 829); the Eichstätter Chronik as a continuation of the Flores temporum , f. 39-46
  • B : Text up to 1363, not preserved, accepted model for the following manuscripts:
    • B1 , formerly in Rebdorf Abbey (signature D. 13), confiscated by French troops on July 17, 1800, now in the French National Library in Paris, cod. lat. 10770 (formerly suppl. latin. 201 11 ); the only complete manuscript of the text form B, followed by five Maundy Thursday sermons by Heinrich Taube von Selbach
    • B2 : Austrian National Library Vienna, cod. 3284 (formerly Hist. Prof. 1053); an excerpt from the Eichstätter Chronik as a continuation of the Flores temporum , f. 57-69

Spending and research

The chronicle received a reception that went beyond the sparse distribution of manuscripts in the middle of the 16th century in Aventins Annales ducum Boiariae , for which he obviously used the B1 manuscript.

The entire chronicle was first published by Marquard Freher in the Rerum Germanicarum Scriptores (Volume I, pp. 411-452), probably based on a cursory copy from Rebdorf (Frankfurt 1600, 2nd edition 1634). Improved editions by Christoph Gewold (Ingolstadt 1616) and Burkhard Gotthelf Struve (Strasbourg 1717 as the third edition of the Freher edition) followed. In 1868 the chronicle appeared in an edition by Johann Friedrich Böhmer (completed by Alfons Huber ) in the Fontes rerum Germanicarum (Volume IV, pp. 507-568) , taking into account the Klosterneuburg manuscript A2 .

Until then, the work was known as the Chronicle of Heinrich von Rebdorf . The person of a religious Heinrich in Rebdorf Monastery is fictional and goes back to the manuscript kept in an Augustinian monastery in Rebdorf near Eichstätt, on which the first edition was based. In 1879, Aloys Schulte showed in his dissertation The so-called Chronicle of Heinrich von Rebdorf that a writer Heinrich von Rebdorf could not be kept and suggested for the second part the Heinricus Surdus de Eychstet mentioned in the Viennese manuscript . However, he came to the conclusion that the chronicle consists of two parts from different hands (the first section from an unknown hand, the second from Heinrich). This view was not shared by later research due to the stylistic uniformity of the chronicle.

A translation into German by Josef Diringer (Däntler, Eichstätt 1883) appeared in 1883 under the title Annales Imperatorum et Paparum Eistettenses . In the same year, another translation by Georg Grandaur appeared as the history of the emperor and the pope (by Heinrich the Tauben) in the series Historians of the German Prehistoric Times (XIV. Century, Vol. 8, Besser, Berlin 1883).

In 1922 Harry Bresslau published the chronicle of Heinrichs Taube von Selbach (Chronica Heinrici Surdi de Selbach) for the first time, taking into account all manuscripts, as volume 1 of the Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, Nova series of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (reprint 1980, ISBN 3-921575-30-3 ) . Its edition contains an overview of the manuscripts and a biographical sketch of Heinrich Taube von Selbach based on the documents known at the time . It is also increased by six bishop biographies from Heinrich's hand.

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