Marianus Scotus of Mainz

Marianus Scotus, gaelic: Máel Brigte ( German: Service man of Brigid, (* 1028, † 1082 or 1083 in Mainz ) was a medieval Irish chronicler, who must be distinguished from his namesake Marianus Scotus, the Abbot of St. Peter's in Regensburg.

According to his own history, he was a monk in 1052 and 1056 went to Cologne in the Irish monastery of St. Martin. From there he went to Fulda and was ordained a priest in 1059 in Würzburg. 1060 he became a hermit near Fulda, but was 1070 in the monastery of St. Alban before Mainz to its former Abbot Siegfried, who had become Archbishop of Mainz. He is buried in the cathedral of St. Martin in Mainz.

His Chronicon is designed as a universal history from the creation to the year 1082 and well known in the Middle Ages. Especially Florentius of Worcester, John of Worcester and Sigebert of Gembloux have taken a lot from it. It was printed in 1559 in Basel for the first time in 1894 with an introduction provided by Waitz published in the Monumenta Historica Germaniae.

Two manuscripts that lie in the Vatican Library ( Vatican, 830), date from the 11th century, one of which might be an autograph.

Scotus ' Chronicon is the oldest historical work in which is found a report on the Pope Joan. However, because these notes show up only in late manuscripts, it is believed that they have been taken from the 1277 published chronicle of Martin of Opava.

Expenditure

• Chronica: ad Euangelij ueritatem, ... First edition: Jacobus Parcus, Basel, 1559 One copy is now in the public library Mainz [ Signed IV e: 2 ° / 93 ].
• Mariani Scotti chronicon a 1-1082. In: Georg Heinrich Pertz et al (eds): Scriptores ( in folio ) 5: Annales et chronica aevi Salici. Hannover 1844, pp. 481-568 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized )