Annales guelferbytani

The Annales guelferbytani (abbreviated AG ) is a part of the annals of the Frankish Empire; they cover the years 741-798 from using supplements to the years 817 and 823 They were written in Regensburg 812-813, then the capital of Bavaria. They were found in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel ( hence the name) in a manuscript ( " Cod Guelf. Aug. 8 ° 67.5 ' ), comprising fourteen folios, of which Folio 13r ( recto ) 826, folio 13v ( verso) and 14r were added later.

For the years up to 751 have the Annales guelferbytani a common source with the Annales nazariani (AN) and the Annales alamannici (AA) in the lost Murbacher annals of the Abbey Murbach. From this source, the Annales Laureshamenses, the Annales mosellani and Fragmentum come chesnii. For the period to 789 AG, AA and AN have a continuation of the Murbacher annals as the source. From 789, the Annales are guelferbytani an independent source by an unknown author. From it, the information comes to campaign Pippin of Italy against the Principality of Benevento, his father Charlemagne had ordered in 791, after both of a common campaign against turning and Avars (whose country is called here Hunia, Huns ).

Expenditure

• Georg Heinrich Pertz, MGH Scriptores, I ( Hannover 1826), pp. 19-46 Pars prima, years 741-768, pp. 23-31.
• Continuatio, years 769-790, pp. 40-44.
• Pars altera, years 791-805, 817 and 823, pp. 45-46.