Chronicon Petroburgense

The Chronicon Petroburgense, or Peterborough Chronicle, is a 13th-century chronicle written in Medieval Latin at Peterborough Abbey, England, covering events from 1122 to 1294.[1] It was probably written by William of Woodford, a sacrist and later abbot of Peterborough (1296–1299).[1] It survives as part of a Peterborough cartulary known as the "Liber Niger", or "Black Book", where it appears on folios 75–80 and 85–136.[2][Fn 1] The chronicle was edited by Thomas Stapleton and published by the Camden Society in 1849, with an appendix containing a transcription of the first 20 folios of the Liber Niger.[5] In his introduction to Stapleton's edition, John Bruce wrote that the Chronicon contained "valuable contributions to legal and constitutional history [that were] universally recognised".[6]

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

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First page of the Chronicon Petroburgense, in the manuscript book Liber Niger from Peterborough Abbey

References

Footnotes
  1. The Peterborough Liber Niger is Society of Antiquaries ms. 60. While Martin groups her descriptions of cartularies and registers – "[collections of] incoming and outgoing correspondence and other administrative material [produced] during the incumbency of individual abbots" – separately, she describes the Liber Niger first in her section for cartularies.[3] The Liber Niger is described as a "chartulary" in the relevant Victoria County History volume.[4]

Notes
  1. Martin 1978, p. 4.
  2. Martin 1978, pp. 1–7.
  3. Martin 1978.
  4. Cox 1906, p. 84, n. 1.
  5. Stapleton 1849.
  6. Stapleton 1849, p. xiv.

Bibliography
  • Martin, J. (1978), The Cartularies and Registers of Peterborough Abbey, Northamptonshire Record Society, ISBN 0-901275-39-5
  • Cox, J.C. (1906), "Religious houses", in Serjeantson, R.M.; Adkins, W.R.D. (eds.), A History of the County of Northampton, vol. 2, Victoria County History, Constable, OCLC 59512197
  • Stapleton, T., ed. (1849), Chronicon Petroburgense, Camden Society, OCLC 604801475


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