Chronicon Angliae Petriburgense

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Not to be confused with the Peterborough Chronicle, which is a manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, or Chronicon Petroburgense.

The Chronicon Angliae Petriburgense is a 14th-century

John of Caleto (or "Caux"), who was an abbot of Peterborough (1250–1262).[5][Fn 2] Giles reported a marginal note in the manuscript making a similar attribution, besides a similar note at the beginning of the manuscript stating that it belonged to Peterborough Abbey.[7][Fn 3] However, Giles observed that this manuscript attribution was "comparatively modern", and regarded the chronicle's author as unknown.[5][Fn 4] In Giles's view, the Chronicon is "extremely valuable both on account of the numerous facts which it contains, and for the [700 years] which it embraces."[11]

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Footnotes

  1. ^ The Latin title translates to English as "Peterborough chronicle of England."
  2. ^ Patrick's attribution is in his preface to Gunton 1968. The identity of "Caleto" with Caux is illustrated by Gunton: "He gave also a great bell to [Peterborough Abbey], whereon was written, "Jo[ha]n[nes] de Caux Abbas Oswaldo consecrat hoc vas" (Abbot John of Caux consecrates this vessel to [St] Oswald).[6]
  3. ^ The marginal note attributing the Chronicon to Abbot John appears at the top of its first page, above an inscription reading "Iste liber pertinet ad monasterium de burgo sancti petri Anno Domini DCliiii Amen" ("This book belongs to the monastery of Peterborough AD 654 Amen"). The inscription forms the first line of the chronicle.[1]
  4. ^ Whereas Thomas Duffus Hardy described the Chronicon as "enveloped in a mystery which [he had] not been able to unravel", Antonia Gransden is uncritical in accepting the authorship of "John of Peterborough".[8][9] Writing for the Dictionary of National Biography, Edmund King stated that "John de Caux is not to be identified with the John of Peterborough said to have written or owned the Peterborough–Spalding annals in BL, Cotton MS Claudius A. v. fols. 2–45."[10]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c "Cotton MS Claudius A V". British Library. n.d. Archived from the original on 14 November 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  2. ^ Giles 1845, pp. vii–xviii.
  3. ^ Giles 1845, pp. ix–x.
  4. ^ Sparke 1723.
  5. ^ a b Giles 1845, p. xii.
  6. ^ Gunton 1968, p. 34.
  7. ^ Giles 1845, pp. x, xii.
  8. ^ Hardy 1871, p. 216.
  9. ^ Gransden 1996, p. 214, n. 156.
  10. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4388. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  11. ^ Giles 1845, p. x.

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