The ''Annales Sancti Quintini Viromandensis'' (Annals of Saint Quentin of Vermandois) are a set of

annals Annals ( la, annāles, from , "year") are a concise historical record in which events are arranged chronologically, year by year, although the term is also used loosely for any historical record. Scope The nature of the distinction between ann ...

originally composed in

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

at the Abbey of Saint-Quentin in the

County of Vermandois Vermandois was a kingdom of France, French county that appeared in the Merovingian dynasty, Merovingian period. Its name derives from that of an ancient tribe, the Viromandui. In the 10th century, it was organised around two castellan domains: S ...

, and found in manuscript 645 of the

Vatican Library The Vatican Apostolic Library ( la, Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, it, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), more commonly known as the Vatican Library or informally as the Vat, is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City. Formally es ...

. It covers the years 793–994 and was written by five different hands. Vatican 645 contains a copy of

Bede Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom o ...

Easter table As a moveable feast, the date of Easter is determined in each year through a calculation known as (). Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, which is the first full moon on or after 21 March (a fixed approxi ...

based on the

Metonic cycle The Metonic cycle or enneadecaeteris (from grc, ἐννεακαιδεκαετηρίς, from ἐννεακαίδεκα, "nineteen") is a period of almost exactly 19 years after which the lunar phases recur at the same time of the year. The recu ...

down to the year 1025. In the margins one hand has added the names of the Roman emperors down to

Charlemagne Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first Holy ...

(800–14). Another hand of the ninth century added two brief notices for the years 793 and 844. In the eleventh century, four more monks added notices in the margins of the Easter table. Most of these annals were not, therefore, contemporary. Several of the annals are cut off partially or entirely by poor subsequent bookbinding.Bethmann (1859), p. 507.

Editions

*Ludwig Bethmann, ed
"Annales S. Quintini Viromandensis"
MGH ''Scriptores'', 16 (Hanover: 1859), pp. 507–08. *Ferdinand LeProux, ed. and trans. "Annales S. Quintini Viromandensis", ''Mémoires de la Société académique de Saint-Quentin'', III, 9 (1869), pp. 315–28.

References

{{reflist Latin chronicles about France