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The ''Flores Historiarum'' (Flowers of History) is the name of two different (though related) Latin chronicles by medieval English historians that were created in the 13th century, associated originally with the Abbey of St Albans. == Wendover's ''Flores Historiarum'' == The first ''Flores Historiarum'' was created by St Albans writer, Roger of Wendover, who carried his chronology from the creation up to 1235, the year before his death. Roger claims in his preface to have selected "from the books of catholic writers worthy of credit, just as flowers of various colours are gathered from various fields." Hence he also called his work ''Flores Historiarum''. However, like most chronicles, it is now valued not so much for what was culled from previous writers, as for its full and lively narrative of contemporary events from 1215 to 1235,〔(Volume I, Chapter IX, Section 19 ) of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature〕 including the signing of Magna Carta by King John at Runnymede.〔(Signing of Magna Carta, Runneymede, 1215 )〕 The book has survived in one thirteenth-century manuscript in the Bodleian Library (Douce manuscript 207), a mutilated 14th century copy in the British Library (Cotton manuscript Otho B. v.), and in the version adapted by Matthew Paris which forms the first part of his ''Chronica Majora'' (ed. Henry Richards Luard, Rolls Series, seven volumes). The sources brought together in the ''Flores'' include Bede, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Sigebert of Gembloux, Florence of Worcester, Simeon of Durham, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, Robert de Monte, William of Tyre, Ralph de Diceto, Benedictus Abbas, Roger of Hoveden and Ralph of Coggeshall (to 1194).〔Frederic Madden (1866), ''Historia Anglorum'', vol 3, (xxiii )〕〔F. M. Powicke (1906), (Roger of Wendover and the Coggeshall Chronicle ), ''The English Historical Review'', 21 (82), pp. 286-296〕 A detailed list is given by Luard,〔Henry Richards Luard (1872, 1874) ''Matthei Parisiensis Chronica Majora'', vol 1 p. (xxxiv ) (to 1066) and vol. 2 p. (xiii ) (to 1216)〕 who in his running text also marks up the apparent source of each section. From 1201 and through the reign of King John it draws on a source common between it and the ''Annales Sancti Edmundi'' later also used by John de Taxster, and also some annals added to the St. Albans copy of Diceto.〔Vaughan (1958), ''Matthew Paris'', p. (24 )〕 The date of creation of the earliest nucleus of the compilation has been disputed. The manuscript in the Bodleian Library, written out ca. 1300, contains a marginal note against the annal for 1188 that reads "up to here in Abbot John's chronicle book".〔''"hic usque in lib. cronic. Johannis abbatis"''.〕 Luard took this to mean that there had existed a core of the ''Flores'' going up to 1188, the creation of which had been supervised by John of Wallingford at some point during his tenure as abbot of St Albans between 1195 and 1214.〔Luard (1874, 1880), ''Chronica Majora'', vol 2 pp.(x-xii ) and vol 7 pp (ix-xi )〕 On the other hand, 1188 is also when the first manuscript of Matthew Paris's ''Chronica Majora'' concludes, with the end of the reign of Henry II, so an alternative view is that this may have been the chronicle book referred to, which may have been in the possession of a later Abbot John at the turn of the 14th century when the manuscript was written out.〔Madden (1866), ''Historia Anglorum'', vol 1, p (lxxi ); also Powicke (1944), Compilation of the ''Chronica Majora'', ''Proc. Brit. Acad.'' 30, 148–9, and Galbraith, ''Roger Wendover and Matthew Paris'', p. 16 and note 1. Both cited by Vaughan (1958), ''Matthew Paris'', p. (23 )〕 Considering the text itself, some of the earlier parts of the work draw heavily on the ''Historia scholastica'' (ca. 1173) of Petrus Comestor, a copy of which was not introduced into the monastery until John of Wallingford's abbacy.〔Luard (1872), ''Chronica Majora'', vol 1 p. (xxxii ); British Library, Royal MS 4 D VII ((illustrated catalogue ))〕 (Though Luard elsewhere notes some differences between the treatment of Comestor and that of some other writers).〔Luard (1872), ''Chronica Majora'', vol 1 p. (xli )〕 The work of Diceto, which is used throughout the ''Flores'' but especially after 1066, was also not copied for the Abbey until 1204.〔Felix Liebermann (1888), in Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 28 pp.(7-8 ), cited in Vaughan, ''Matthew Paris'', p.(22 ); British Library, Royal MS 13 E VI ((Illustrated catalogue ))〕 In its final form the annal for 1179 contains a reference to the Lateran Council of 1215,〔Frederic Madden (1866), ''Historia Anglorum'', vol 3, (xxiii )〕 and Vaughan finds that all of the extant manuscripts ultimately descend from a common ancestral exemplar that can be no earlier than 1228.〔Vaughan, ''Matthew Paris'', p.(28 )〕 However, Vaughan does not rule out the possibility that there might have been some earlier compilation used by Wendover,〔Vaughan, ''Matthew Paris'', p.(23 )〕 and finds some evidence for such a compilation, extending perhaps to 1066.〔Vaughan, ''Matthew Paris'', pp.(96–97 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flores Historiarum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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