Sächsische Weltchronik

The Sächsische Weltchronik ("Saxon World Chronicle") is a universal history written in German prose.

[1] Ludwig Weiland, who made a critical edition for the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in 1877, gave it the conventional title by which it is most commonly known.

[2] The first edition was prepared by Hans Ferdinand Massmann in 1857, but was based on only one manuscript.

[4] Michael Menzel classifies a fifteenth-century manuscript from Wolfenbüttel as the Leittext.

The most important were the Chronicle of Frutolf of Michelsberg, the continuation of the same by Ekkehard of Aura and the Annales Palidenses.

The death of Frederick Barbarossa as depicted in the Gotha manuscript of the Sächsische Weltchronik