Fragmentum chesnii

The Fragmentum chesnii ( Fragmentum annalium chesnii or chesnianum ), sometimes called Annales Laureshamenses antiquiores, is a short part of the annals, which describes the history of the Frankish Empire 768-790. It was named after André Duchesne (Andreas Chesneus ), the 1636 in his Historiae Francorum Scriptores first published the text. A new edition is by Georg Heinrich Pertz (MGH Scriptores I, p.33 -34, Hanover 1826).

For the years up to the 785 Fragmentum chesnii is almost identical to the Annales Laureshamenses and the Annales mosellani. With the manuscript of the former from the monastery of St. Paul in the Lavant Valley, it also has the first half of the year 786 together, resulting in the existence of a text follows, from which all three annals descended ( the lost " Lorsch annals of 785 " ) and the existence a short continuation of this text, which did not use the clerk of the Annales mosellani. The main difference between the texts before the year 785 is the mention of events that relate to the Lorsch Abbey and the probably of 785 were in the Lorsch annals, were included in the " Annales Laureshamenses " removed from the " Fragmentum chesnii " but were ( suggesting that the Fragmentum was written in Lorsch ). The Fragmentum is generally shorter than the Annales Laureshamenses.

The Fragmentum was chesnii in Reims manuscript dating from the late 9th or 10th century, which today is located in the Vatican Library in Rome (MS Reg Lat. 213, fols. 149-51 ), and no transition between the Fredegar Chronicle a part of the Annales regni Francorum ( the years 791-806 ) found.