Frutolf of Michelsberg

Frutolf by Michel Berg ( * unknown; † January 17, 1103 ) was a monk and priest in Michel mountain monastery in Bamberg, whose Prior, he was at times. He probably came from Bavaria.

Frutolf may have been active as a teacher of the quadrivium in the monastery, but especially as a librarian and writer. In this capacity, he provided for a substantial expansion of Michel Berger library collection. Some of the copied works by him are still preserved.

Even as the author of his own works, he entered appearance: The World Chronicle ( Chronica ) Frutolfs regarded as comprehensive and bestgeordnete chronology of the early Middle Ages. It ranges from the creation to 1099 and has been edited and continued by Frutolfs death of Ekkehard of Aura. In addition comes a " Breviarium de musica " almost certainly from Frutolfs spring, a " Liber de Officiis divinis " as well as a guide to a board game with stones number to be assigned, however, not unique Frutolf.

Expenditure

• Georg Waitz (ed.): Ekkehardi Uraugiensis Chronica, in: Georg Heinrich Pertz et al (eds): Scriptores ( in folio ) 6: Chronica et annales aevi Salici. Hannover 1844, pp. 33-210 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized )
• Frutolfs and Ekkehard chronicles and the anonymous Kaiser Chronicle, ed. by Franz -Josef Schmale and Irene Schmale -Ott, ( Selected sources on German history of the Middle Ages ( Freiherr- vom-Stein Memorial Edition) Vol 15), Darmstadt 1972, ISBN 3-534-01429-4 ( includes inter alia: Introduction to Frutolf, pp. 4-19; Frutolfs Chronicle, pp. 46-121 (Latin / German text from 1000 on ).
• Franz- Josef Schmale, Irene Schmale -Ott and Christian Lohmer (ed. ): The Chronicle of Frutolf by Michel Mountain and its sequels. ( MGH SS = 33). Part 1: ISBN 3-7752-5042-5 (in preparation, as of March 2013), Part 2: ISBN 3-7752-5462-5 (in preparation, as of March 2013).