Aachener Chronik is a town

chronicle A chronicle ( la, chronica, from Greek ''chroniká'', from , ''chrónos'' – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and lo ...

dated to the late 15th century. The

is written in High German, although some portions of the earlier chapters use

Low German : : : : : (70,000) (30,000) (8,000) , familycolor = Indo-European , fam2 = Germanic , fam3 = West Germanic , fam4 = North Sea Germanic , ancestor = Old Saxon , ancestor2 = Middle L ...

references. The document is

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but was probably commissioned by the

Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...

town council. It consists of annual entries from 770 to 1482. The first four centuries of the annual comprise only 13 brief entries, while from 1428 the entries become longer narrative units.Dunphy, Graeme, �
Aachener Chronik
��, in: Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, Edited by: Graeme Dunphy, Cristian Bratu. Consulted online on 20 February 2018.

References

German-language chronicles about Germany 15th-century manuscripts