Chronicle of Saint-Maixent
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The Chronicle of Saint-Maixent[a] is an anonymous Latin universal history written at the Abbey of Saint-Maixent between 1126 and 1141. The first and larger part gives a history of the world down to the reign of Charlemagne (768–814). The second part is focused on France, Poitou and the abbey in particular. The continuous history ends in 1126, but notices for 1134, 1137 and 1140/1141 were added. It is sometimes attributed to Pierre Raymond, abbot from 1134 to 1164.[1]
The Chronicle, about 400 pages in length, survives in two manuscripts:
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 4892 (12th century), folios 1–207[b]
- Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, reg. lat. 554 (15th century), folios 1–195[c]
The Vatican manuscript is a copy of the Parisian.[1]
The Chronicle of Saint-Maixent has sometimes been known erroneously as the Chronicon Malleacense or Chronique de Maillezais after the nearby Abbey of Saint-Pierre de Maillezais.[1][2]
Notes
- ^ Latin: Chronicon sancti Maxentii; French: Chronique de Saint-Maixent
- ^ Online digitization
- ^ Online digitization
- ^ a b c Bratu & Rech 2010.
- ^ Lacroix 1982.
Editions
- "Chronicon Sancti Maxentii Pictavensis", in Paul Marchegay and Émile Mabille (eds.), Chroniques des églises d'Anjou. Paris: Société de l'histoire de France, 1869, pp. 349–433.
- Jean Verdon, ed. and trans. La chronique de Saint-Maixent (751–1140). Paris: Société d'édition les Belles lettres, 1979.
Bibliography
- Bratu, Christian; Rech, Régis (2010). "Chronicon S. Maxentii". In Graeme Dunphy (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle. Vol. 1. Brill. p. 419.
- Lacroix, Benoît (1982). "Review of Jean Verdon, éd. trad., La Chronique de Saint-Maixent (751–1140)". Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale. 25 (97): 75.
- Painter, Sidney (1957). "The Lords of Lusignan in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries". Speculum. 32 (1): 27–47. doi:10.2307/2849244.