Christherre-Chronik

The Christian Herre Chronicle is an anonymous Chronicle in the Middle High German rhyming couplets. Called she is after her first verse: Crist herre keizer about all craft. It was written in Thuringia at the court of Henry the Illustrious (reigned 1247-1288 ), probably by a priest in the service of this ruler. Therefore it is called in older secondary literature " Thuringian Chronicle ", but this can cause confusion. After a long strong theologically influenced prologue she tells the story of the Old Testament from the creation to the book of Judges, where it breaks off after 24,330 verses.

Several allusions to the " Chronicle " of Rudolf of Ems - including the opening verse (Rudolf begins with Judge Got, herre ubir all power ) - suggest that the Christian Herre poet deliberately wanted to offer a spiritual response to the court of Rudolf.

In the late 13th century, the Christian Herre Chronicle was continued by parts from other works, including, ironically, from the chronicle of Rudolf. Even with the " World Chronicle " Jans the Enikels it was assembled in compilations. An example of this is the Codex Palatinus Germanicus 146

In the 14th century it provides important components of the Chronicle of the World Compilations Henrichs of Munich. Narrated she is alone in such compounds, never in a "pure text form."

An edition is currently being prepared in Trier.