Chronicle of Aniane
[3] J. M. J. G. Kats and D. Claszen suggest an "Aniane prototype" was composed in the ninth century and given its final form only in the twelfth.
[4] According to Walter Kettemann, the sole surviving copy of the Chronicle of Aniane was used as a source for some passages in On the Holiness, Merits and Glory of the Miracles of the Blessed Charlemagne, written between about 1165 and 1170.
[5] The Chronicle of Aniane is found today in a single manuscript codex now in the National Library of France, BN lat.
Most scholars believe it was copied at Aniane, but Jean Dufour argued that the script is similar to that of another manuscript produced in the Abbey of Arles-sur-Tech.
[3][9] The Chronicle is followed in the codex by the Deeds of the Counts of Barcelona; a short epicedion (funeral elegy) for Count Raymond Borrell of Barcelona; a letter purportedly from Prester John to Emperor Manuel Komnenos; a note on the marriages and offspring of Saint Anne; and a note based on the canons of the Council of Rome of 1082.
In his Marca Hispanica, published posthumously by Baluze in 1688, he cites the "Annals of Aniane" in ways that suggest he had a different copy of the chronicle than the one in BN lat.
In the manuscript it is introduced with the rubric Genealogia, ortus, vel actus Caroli, atque piissimi Imperatoris ('Genealogy, origin, or deeds of Charles the most pious emperor').
[6] The table of contents of the manuscript, a late addition, calls the first text Annalis monasterii Ananianensis, ab anno DCLXX usque ad an.
[3] The library catalogue lists it under the rubric but adds, as an alternative short title, sive potius chronicum Anianense ('or rather the chronicle of Aniane').
[2][11] The Chronicle of Aniane is essentially a history of the Carolingian family, charting its rise from 670 and the Battle of Lucofao through to the death of the Emperor Louis the Pious in 840.
[9] It belongs to a class of works that are continuations of the Greater Chronicle of the English historian Bede, a universal history down to 725.
This is followed without any break by a series of narrative passages on Louis the Pious, Benedict of Aniane and William of Gellone.
[17] In 1739, for the Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France [fr], Martin Bouquet produced a composite text by editing the Chronicle of Moissac and the Chronicle Aniane together, using the latter primarily to fill in the large gap in the former.
