Chronicon Moissiacense Maius
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Chronicon Moissiacense Maius A Carolingian World Chronicle From Creation until the First Years of Louis the Pious On the basis of the manuscript of the late Ir. J.M.J.G Kats Prepared and revised by D. Claszen Volume I: Introduction 2 D. Claszen MPhil Thesis S0438170 Prof. Dr. P.C.M. Hoppenbrouwers Verlengde Wassenaarseweg 12H Oegstgeest, 25 September 2012 2342 BG Oegstgeest Tel.: 06-36180791 E-mail: [email protected] 3 Table of Contents Abbreviations ............................................................................................................................. 6 Sigla ........................................................................................................................................... 7 Preface........................................................................................................................................ 9 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 13 Chapter One: The manuscripts................................................................................................. 21 1.1 – Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale lat. 4886 ....................................................................... 21 1.2 – Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale lat. 5941 ....................................................................... 33 1.3 – The codices of the ‘Waitz group’ ................................................................................ 38 1.3.1 – Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Scaliger 28 ....................................................... 40 1.3.2 – Brussels, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, ms. 17349-60 ................................... 41 1.3.3 – Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 246 ................................................... 43 1.3.4 – Besançon, Bibliothèque municipale, 186 ............................................................. 45 1.3.5 – Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, nouv. acq. lat. 1615 ............................................. 46 1.4 – The codices of the Lorsch annals ................................................................................ 48 1.4.1 – Sankt Paul in Lavanttal, Stiftsarchiv, cod. 8/1 ..................................................... 48 1.4.2 – The ‘Duchesne Fragment’ in Rome, BAV, MS Reg. Lat. 213, fols. 149-151 ..... 50 1.4.3 – The ‘Vienna Fragment’ in Vienna, ÖNB, lat. 515 ............................................... 51 Chapter Two: The stemma ....................................................................................................... 53 2.1 – The composer and compiler of CMM ......................................................................... 54 2.2 – P and the Waitz-group ................................................................................................. 57 2.3 – P and AA ..................................................................................................................... 62 2.4 – P, AA and the Lorsch group ........................................................................................ 67 2.5 – Earlier versions of AA and P....................................................................................... 69 Chapter Three: Previous editions of CMM and related manuscripts ....................................... 73 3.1 – The Moissac Chronicle ............................................................................................... 73 3.2 – The Aniane Annals ...................................................................................................... 75 4 3.3 – The Moissac Chronicle and the Aniane Annals .......................................................... 76 3.4 – The Chronica Maiora of the Venerable Bede ............................................................. 80 3.5 – The Chronicon Universale-741 ................................................................................... 81 3.6 – The Annales Laureshamenses ..................................................................................... 81 Chapter Four: A history of histories ........................................................................................ 85 5.1 – The transmission of universal history ......................................................................... 85 5.2 – Merovingian and Carolingian history ......................................................................... 90 Chapter Five: The sources ....................................................................................................... 95 4.1 – The structure of the compilation ................................................................................. 95 4.2 – The sources of CMM................................................................................................... 98 4.3 – From Creation to Valentinian ...................................................................................... 99 4.3.1 – The first and second aetas .................................................................................... 99 4.3.2 – The third aetas .................................................................................................... 101 4.3.3 – The fourth aetas .................................................................................................. 104 4.3.4 – The beginning of the fifth aetas, from 600 B.C. until the birth of Christ .......... 105 4.3.5 – From Christ to Diocletian ................................................................................... 107 4.3.6 – From Diocletian until the advent of the barbarians ............................................ 108 4.3.7 – From the first barbarian movements until the advent of the Franks ................... 110 4.4 – The history of the Franks .......................................................................................... 111 4.4.1 – The Franks until Dagobert .................................................................................. 112 4.4.2 – From Dagobert’s to Charles Martel’s death ....................................................... 114 4.4.3 – The missing folios .............................................................................................. 118 4.4.4 – From 775 until the imperial coronation .............................................................. 119 4.4.5 – From 801 until the end........................................................................................ 122 Chapter Six: Chronology ....................................................................................................... 125 6.1 – Chronological systems in CMM ............................................................................... 125 6.2 – From Creation to Alexander the Great ...................................................................... 127 5 6.3 – After Alexander the Great ......................................................................................... 132 Chapter Seven: The Latinity of CMM ................................................................................... 137 7.1 – The background of CMM .......................................................................................... 137 7.2 – Phonology and orthography ...................................................................................... 138 7.2.1 – Vowels ................................................................................................................ 138 7.2.2 – Diphthongs.......................................................................................................... 139 7.2.3 – Consonants.......................................................................................................... 140 7.3 – Morphology and syntax ............................................................................................. 143 7.4 – Difficulties and errors................................................................................................ 145 Chapter Eight: The presentation of the text ........................................................................... 147 Bibliography .......................................................................................................................... 149 Manuscript sources ............................................................................................................. 149 Editions of the Chronicon Moissiacense and the Annales Anianensis............................... 149 Published primary sources ................................................................................................. 150 Secondary sources .............................................................................................................. 153 6 Abbreviations AL Annales Laureshamenses AM Annales Mosellani AMP Annales Mettenses Priores ARF Annales Regni Francorum ASGW Abhandlungen der Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften Philologisch-Historische Classe BN Bibliothèque Nationale BOD Bedae Venerabilis opera. Pars VI: Opera didascalica. Vol. 2, C.W. Jones ed. (Turnhout 1977). BOT Bedae opera de temporibus, C.W. Jones ed. (Cambridge 1943). BSB Bayerische Staatsbibliothek CM Chronica Maiora CMM Chronicon Moissiacense Maius CMM I Chronicon Moissiacense Maius, Volume I: Introduction CMM II Chronicon Moissiacense Maius, Volume II: Text Edition CSLMA Clavis scriptorum Latinorum Medii Aevi: auctores Galliae, 735-987, Marie- Hélène Jullien and Françoise Perelman ed. (Turnhout 1999). CPL Clavis Patrum Latinorum qua in Corpus Christianorum edendum optimas quasque scriptorum