Vita Annonis Minor

The Vita Annonis Minor is a hagiography of Saint Anno (archbishop of Cologne), No.

The only extant mediaeval manuscript is in the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt under reference Hs.

It was first documented in the mid-17th century by the Cologne clergyman and historian Aegidius Gelenius in a list of the manuscripts of Grafschaft.

After secularisation and the transfer of the Duchy of Westphalia to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt in 1804, the Vita Annonis came to the court library of Ludwig X in Darmstadt.

The Vita Annonis Minor is the more recent of two substantial mediaeval lives of Anno (the other is the Annolied).

Miniature on the first page (fol. 1v) of the Vita Annonis Minor showing the standing figure of Saint Anno in bishop's robes with chasuble and pallium, surrounded by his religious foundations: in his hands the churches of St. Maria ad Gradus (1057) and St. Georg (1067) in Cologne, at his feet the Benedictine abbeys of Saalfeld in Thuringia (1063) and Grafschaft in Sauerland (1073), and at his head the Benedictine abbey of Siegburg (1064)