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- A compilation of German historical works including several annals and chronicles.
- (to 1500; Latin facsimile)
- The fights of mankind are recorded alongside the success or failure of crops.
- (709-732)
- Carolingian primary chronicle.
- (741; Latin)
- Continuation of the Royal Frankish Annals.
- (830-882; Latin)
- Frankish chronicle.
- (832-873; Latin)
- Another Frankish chronicle.
- (874-900; Latin)
- Includes the Hungarian campaign against Saxony
- From Monumenta Germaniae Historica
- (circa 10th century)
- By Widukind of Covey. From the fall of the Thuringian dynasty to Otto's Franconian campaign.
- Available for PDF download
- (10th century; English translation)
- Frankish Annals of Fulda provide information on the timespan from the end of Louis the Pious' reign to the the accession of Louis III
- (900; Latin transcription)
- Chronicle of Regino of Prüm. The writer interweaves the rise and fall of the Carolingian dynasty with the events of his own life. He offers valuable insight into Bulgarian history and rare information on the organization of the Council of Preslav.
- (906; German translation)
- The chronicle of Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg.
- Exemplary digital editing by Monumenta Germaniae Historica
- (ca. 1000; German facsimiles and transcriptions)
- By Bishop Thietmar von Merseburg, a chronicle including Saxon emperors as well as information of the Slavs east of Elbe River, the Hungarians and the Poles
- German version found HERE
- (1018; Latin facsimile)
- An important chronicle for the time of König Heinrichs IV.
- Made available by Indiana University
- (1054-1100; German and Latin facsimile)
- An imperial chronicle regarding German monarchs and their Carolingian predecessors, from 741-1142
- From MDZ
- (12th century; Latin facsimile)
- Bamberger Weltchronistik
- Die anonymen Frutolf-Fortsetzungen bis 1101 und 1106 - The anonymous Frutolf sequels (1101 and 1106)
- Die anonyme Kaiserchronik - The anonymous chronicles of the emperor
- From Monumenta Germaniae Historica
- (12th century; Latin; PDF)
- Chronicle by Helmoldus about the Polabian Slavs, who lived along the Elbe Riber.
- Continued on with Arnold of Lübeck's Chronicle. Some English excerpts can be found here.
- (12th century; Latin ebook)
- Ekkehard... a well-known German historian had completed a history of the world in the year 1101 when he determined to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. On his return he entirely rewrote the particulars of his history relating to the First Crusade.
- From the Internet History Sourcebook
- (12th century, English translation)
- An imperial chronicle regarding German monarchs and their Carolingian predecessors, from 741-1142
- From MDZ
- (12th century; Latin facsimile)
- The Imperial Chronicle, from the reign of Julius Caesar to Conrad III, including the transition from a pagan to a Christian world
- See also, the facsimile edition.
- (1146; German eBook)
- Written by Priest Helmold about the pre-Christian Polabian Slavs of what is now East Germany
- Book II
- From In Nomine Jassa
- (1171; English translation)
- Royal Chronicle of Cologne, covering the years 576-1202. A history of kings and emperors.
- (1177; Latin facsimile)
- This chronicle, one of the main sources for German history at the end of the twelfth century, was written c. 1209-10, and intended as a continuation to the Chronicle of Bishop Otto of Freising, from which the author frequently quoted.
- (1209; English translation)
- Poet Rudolf von Ems' "Weltchronik" is an incomplete, rhymed version of the Bible, with supplements from other sources.
- From the New York Public Library
- (1252; German; facsimiles)
- This two part chronicle consists of a word history including papal and kingly politics, in addition to a history of the mid-fourteenth century.
- From MDH
- (1294-1363; Latin facsimile)
- The Livonian Rhymed Chronicle (1180-1343), which was possibly written in order to inspire the crusading knights of the Livonian Order. Its greatest value is in the information about Livonia, what is now Estonia and Latvia.
- (14th century; high German facsimile)
- Martin von Troppau's chronicle gives a papal history on the left and an emperors history on the right. The texts are presented in chronological order from Roman times to 1350.
- See also, The German facsimile edition
- From Monumenta Germaniae Historica
- (ca 14th century; Latin; PDF)
- The annals of Bartholomew of Lucca, which offer the chief events of 1061–1303.
- (1307; Latin and German facsimiles)
- Chronicle begins with the pontification of Pope Innocent III. (1200) and ends with the reign of Charles IV (1348)
- Made available by Monumenta Germaniae Historica
- (mid 14th century; German and Latin facsimile)
- (1356; English translation)
- The Cologne Chronicle serves three purposes: to offer a papal history, a German land and city history, and a dated history handbook for pastoral practices for the years 1273-1376.
- Comparable to Die Weltchronik des Mönchs Albert 1273-1456
- Made available by Monumenta Germaniae Historica
- (1376; German and Latin facsimile)
- Collected works of the Bavarian historian.
- Smaller Historical and Philological Writings
- Annales ducum Boiariae
- Bavarian Chronicle
- More Smaller Works
- (4 July 1477 – 9 January 1534; Latin and German)
- Hartmann Schedel's collection, portraying his interest in almost all fields of knowledge of the late Middle Ages: rhetoric, astronomy, philosophy, ancient and humanistic literature, historiography, geography and cosmography, medicine, law, theology.
- Compiled by Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum
- (1493 century; German and Latin facsimiles with German interface)
- Georg Spalatin (1484-1545) particularly reknown as adviser and intimate of Martin Luther was actually a member of the court of Friedrich III of Sachsen, called Friedrich der Weise. In 1510 he began to write a chronicle about the history of Saxonians, Thuringians and the citizens of Meißen, from their beginnings up to the present time.
- (1510; German and English; facsimiles)
- A collection of medieval chronicles from Monvmenta Germaniae Historica
- (Latin; ebook)
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