Annales iuvavenses

The original version is lost but four derivatives are found in three manuscripts and additional excerpts in a fourth.

[1] In addition to this source, Bresslau hypothesized an earlier lost set of annals from Salzburg used by the compiler of the A. iuv.

They were added to the manuscript by Baldo of Salzburg to supplement the Annales qui dicuntur Alcuini.

antiqui is found in a single 12th-century manuscript, Admont, Bibliothek des Benediktinerstifts, Cod.

[5] The Annales sancti Emmerammi Ratisponensis maiores covering the years 748–823 are also derived from A. iuv.

[6] Bresslau, in his edition for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica series, presents the texts of the A. iuv.

The so-called Auctarium Garstense, compiled at Admont Abbey in 1181, used them as a source for its early entries.

These Excerpta Aventini cover the period from 748 to 939 and sometimes contain information found nowhere else, but since Aventinus sometimes altered the wording their reliability is suspect.

[9] The Annales iuvavenses antiqui are a useful source for southeastern German and Austrian history where they are preserved in existing compilations.

[10] According to the Annales iuvavenses maximi in the Admont manuscript, "the Bavarians, with some other East Franks, elected Arnulf German king in opposition to Henry" (Baiuarii sponte se reddiderunt Arnolfo duci et regnare eum fecerunt in regno Teutonicorum) in 920.

[10] The Salzburg annals are the only source for an assassination attempt on incapacitated King Carloman by the Bavarians in 878[10] and the location of the Battle of Pressburg (Brezalauspurc) against the Hungarians in 907.