Marianus Scotus (1028–1082 or 1083) was an Irish monk and

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r. He authored the ''Chronica Clara'', a history of the world.

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Marianus Scotus is

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", although that term at the time was still inclusive of the Irish. He is sometimes known as to distinguish him from

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and sometimes called (Modern ir, Maelbhríde), "

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's Servant". The name "Marianus" }), which purports to be a

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from the creation of the world to 1082 and which employed a dual numbering scheme on the misunderstanding that the

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computed by

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had been mistaken by 22 years. The chronicle was very popular during the

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and, in England, was extensively used by

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and other writers. It was first printed at

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in 1559 and has been edited with an introduction by

Georg Waitz Georg Waitz (9 October 1813 – 24 May 1886) was a German medieval historian and politician. Waitz is often spoken of as the leading disciple of Leopold von Ranke, though perhaps he had more affinity with Georg Heinrich Pertz or Friedrich Christ ...

for the ''

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Scriptores'', Vol. V
See also

W. Wattenbach Wilhelm Wattenbach (22 September 181920 September 1897), was a German historian. He was born at Rantzau in Holstein. He studied philology at the universities of Bonn, Göttingen and Berlin, and in 1843 he began to work upon the ''Monumenta G ...

, ''Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen'' (Bd. ii., 1894). Codex Palatino-Vaticanus 830 contains the Tripartite Chronicle of Marianus Scotus.

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Bibliography

* * Reeves, William, ''On Marianus Scotus, of Ratisbon'' (

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, 1860)
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