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The ''Annales laureshamenses'' or ''Annals of Lorsch'' (AL) are a set of ''Reichsannalen'' (annals of the Frankish empire) that cover the years from 703 to 803, with a brief prologue. The annals begin where the "Chronica minora" of the Anglo-Saxon historian Bede leaves off—in the fifth year of the Emperor Tiberios III—and may have originally been composed as a continuation of Bede. The annals for the years up to 785 were written at the Abbey of Lorsch (whence the name), but are dependent on earlier sources. Those for the years from 785 onward form an independent source and provide especially important coverage of the imperial coronation of Charlemagne in 800. The ''Annales laureshamenses'' have been translated into English.〔By P. D. King in ''Charlemagne: Translated Sources'' (Kendal: 1987), 137–45.〕 ==Manuscript history== An eight-leaf copy of the Lorsch annals for 703–803 was produced probably in 835 by a single scribe.〔Rosamond McKitterick (2004), ''History and Memory in the Carolingian World'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 107–10.〕 The "Sankt-Paul codex", as it is now called, which is the sole surviving quire of an otherwise lost manuscript, was still in the library of Sankt-Blasien in 1790, when it was edited by Aemilianus Ussermann,〔Roger Collins (2005), "Charlemagne's Imperial Coronation and the Annals of Lorsch," ''Charlemagne: Empire and Society'', ed. Joanna Story (Manchester: Manchester University Press), 54–64 (with images on 60–1).〕 bishop of Bamberg, in his collection of documents illustrative of "Alemannian" German history, ''Germaniae sacrae prodomus seu collectio monumentorum res Alemannicas illustrantium''. In 1809, as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, the monks of Sankt-Blasien moved, with their library, to the Abbey of Sankt-Paul im Lavanttal. In 1820 G. H. Pertz sought the manuscript for the ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica'', but it could not be found and so the ''MGH'' version was based on Ussermann's printed edition of 1790.〔''MGH'', SS I, pp. 19–39.〕 The manuscript was recovered by 1889, when Eberhard Katz edited a new version.〔In ''Jahresbericht des öffentl. Stiftsuntergymnasiums der Benedictiner zu Sankt Paul in Kärnten'' (Sankt Paul: 1889).〕 Katz described the codex (today lost again), dated it to the ninth century and suggested it originated at the Abbey of Reichenau because of a marginal notice of the burial of Charlemagne's brother-in-law Gerold of Vinzgouw there.〔 A fragment of a manuscript conserved in Vienna (now no. 515 in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) also contains a section of the Lorsch annals for mid-794 to 803, and was copied around 803. This manuscript too appears to originate at Reichenau, as it is written in Alemannian script.〔 It was discovered in Vienna in 1551 by Wolfgang Lazius. Katz argued that both the Vienna fragment and the Sankt-Paul codex are derived from an earlier exemplar. Though the Sankt-Paul codex is later, it is not a copy of the Vienna, since it contains errors that must originate in some other exemplar. There is an ongoing debate whether the Vienna fragment represents the original copy of the annalist, who was probably from the region of Alemannia.〔 Four distinct scribal hands have been identified in the Vienna fragment, corresponding to different entries: *A (fol. 1r, fol. 1v l. 18 to 2v l. 13): 794 (fragment), second half of 795, all of 796–97 *B (fol. 1v ll. 1–18, fol. 2v l. 14 to 3r l. 1): first half of 795 *C (fol. 3r l. 2 to 4r l. 17): all of 799–801 *D (fol. 4r l. 18 to 5r l. 10): all of 802–3 The post-785 annals in the Sankt-Paul and Vienna manuscripts do not show any special connexions with Lorsch and were probably composed elsewhere. They may have been written nearly continuously from 785, or in spurts with months or years between additions. 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「Annales laureshamenses」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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