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John Michael Wallace-Hadrill notes that this work "occupies a vital position in the history of Frankish Gaul ... first, because of the intrinsic importance of the information it contains; and secondly, because it is the only source of any significance for much of the period it covers. Together with the ''Decem Libri Historiarum'' of Gregory Of Tours and the Neustria n chronicle known as the '' Liber Historiae Francorum '', it constitutes a nearly continuous history of Gaul from the end of Roman rule to the establishment of the Carolingians, a period of three centuries." 1 AUTHORSHIP See Also: Fredegar The question of who wrote this work has been much debated, although Wallace-Hadrill admits that "Fredegar" is a genuine, if unusual, Frankish name. 2 The Vulgar Latin of this work confirms that the ''Chronicle of Fredegar'' was written in Gaul; beyond this, little is certain about the origin of this work. As a result, there are several theories about the authorship of this work. 3
SOURCES The author or authors used a number of works which have survived to this day. These include the ''Liber Conversationis'' of Hippolytus , the chronicle of Hydatius , the writings of Isidore Of Seville , as well as an incomplete copy of the ''History'' of Gregory of Tours. However, at many places new information has been added to augment the copied accounts; and from the twenty-fourth Regnal Year of Guntram (584), it is a primary source for its material. TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION AND PRINTED EDITIONS This Chronicle exists in 34 manuscripts, which Krusch and Wallace-Hadrill group in five families. Wallace-Hadrill based his translation upon the text of MS. Paris 10910. The '' Editio Princeps '' was published by Flacius Illyrius at Basel in 1568 , who used MS. Heidelberg University Palat. Lat. 864 as his text. The next published edition was ''Antiquae Lectiones'' by Canisius at Ingolstadt in 1602 . Freherus was the first to call the author "Fredegar" in his edition published at Hanover in 1613 . REFERENCES
NOTES # J.M Wallace-Hadrill, ''The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar'', 1960 (Reprint: Westport, Greenwood Press, 1981), p. ix. Wallace-Hadrill notes that his translation is the first of any part of this work into English (p. lxiii). # Wallace-Hadrill, p. xv. # This description of theories is taken from Wallace-Hadrill, pp. xvi-xxv. |
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