Marianus Scotus (chronicler)
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Marianus Scotus ( Gaelic Máel Brigte "Dienstmann der Brigid"; * 1028 ; † 1082 or 1083 in Mainz ) was a medieval Irish chronicler who must be distinguished from his namesake Marianus Scottus , the abbot of St. Peter in Regensburg .
According to his own chronicle, he became a monk in 1052 and went to Cologne in 1056 to the Irish monastery of St. Martin . From there Marianus Scotus went to Fulda and was 1059 in Würzburg for ordained priests . In 1060 he became a hermit near Fulda, but in 1070 he went to the monastery of St. Alban near Mainz to his former abbot Siegfried , who had now become archbishop of Mainz. He is buried in St. Martin's Cathedral in Mainz.
His Chronicon is laid out as world history from creation to the year 1082 and is very well known in the Middle Ages. Especially Florentius of Worcester , John of Worcester and Sigebert of Gembloux have much taken from them. It was first printed in Basel in 1559 and published in 1894 with an introduction by Georg Waitz in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica .
Two manuscripts in the Vatican Library (Vatican, 830) date from the 11th century, one of which could be an autograph .
Scotus' Chronicon is the oldest historical work in which there is an account of Popess Joan . However, since these references only appear in late manuscripts, it is assumed that they were taken from the chronicle published by Martin von Troppau in 1277 .
expenditure
- CHRONICA: ad Euangelij ueritatem,… First edition: Jacobus Parcus, Basel, 1559 A copy is now in the Mainz City Library [Sign. IV e: 2 ° / 93].
- Mariani Scotti chronicon a. 1-1082 . In: Georg Heinrich Pertz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 5: Annales et chronica aevi Salici. Hanover 1844, pp. 481-568 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
literature
- Eckhard Freise: Marianus Scottus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 211 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Wilhelm Wattenbach: Marianus Scottus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 378 f.
Web links
- Marianus Scottus in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marianus Scotus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | medieval Irish chronicler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1028 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1082 or 1083 |
| Place of death | Mainz |