Fragmentum chesnii

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The Fragmentum chesnii ( Fragmentum annalium chesnii or chesnianum ), sometimes also called Annales Laureshamenses antiquiores , is a short part of the Reichsannalen , which describes the history of the Frankish Empire from 768 to 790. It was named after André Duchesne (Andreas Chesneus), who first published the text in 1636 in his Historiae Francorum scriptores . A new edition comes from Georg Heinrich Pertz ( MGH Scriptores I, pp. 33–34, Hannover 1826).

For the years up to 785 the Fragmentum chesnii is almost identical to the Annales Laureshamenses and the Annales mosellani . It also has the first half of the year 786 in common with the manuscript of the former from the St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal , from which follows the existence of a text from which all three annals are derived (the lost "Lorsch Annals of 785") as well as existence a short continuation of this text, which the writer of the Annales mosellani did not use. The main difference between the texts before the year 785 is the mention of events relating to the Lorsch monastery and which were probably in the Lorsch annals from 785 , in which "Annales Laureshamenses" were included, but removed from the "Fragmentum chesnii" (which suggests that the fragment was not written in Lorsch). The fragmentum is generally shorter than the Annales Laureshamenses .

The Fragmentum chesnii was found in a Reims manuscript from the late 9th or 10th century, which is now in the Vatican Library in Rome (MS Reg. Lat. 213, fols. 149–51), with no transition between the Fredegar Chronicle and a part of the Annales regni Francorum (the years 791–806) found.

literature

  • Roger Collins : Charlemagne's Imperial Coronation and the Annals of Lorsch . In: Joanna Story (ed.): Charlemagne: Empire and Society . Manchester University Press, Manchester 2005, pp. 56-59.
  • Rosamond McKitterick : History and Memory in the Carolingian World . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, p. 108.