The ''Chronicon complutense sive alcobacense'' ("Complutensian Chronicle, that is,
rom a manuscriptof
Alcalá de Henares
Alcalá de Henares () is a Spanish municipality of the Community of Madrid. Housing is primarily located on the right (north) bank of the Henares River, Henares. , it has a population of 193,751, making it the region's third-most populated Municip ...
ncient Complutum) is a short
medieval Latin
Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. It was also the administrative language in the former Western Roman Empire, Roman Provinces of Mauretania, Numidi ...
history, in the form of
annals
Annals (, from , "year") are a concise history, historical record in which events are arranged chronology, chronologically, year by year, although the term is also used loosely for any historical record.
Scope
The nature of the distinction betw ...
, of events in
Galicia and
Portugal
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up to the death of
Ferdinand I "the Great", whom the anonymous chronicler lauds as an "exceedingly strong emperor" (''imperator fortissimus''), in 1065. It is the earliest "''
chronicon''" dealing with Galaico-Portuguese events. The
first edition
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First edition
According to the definition of ''edition'' above, a book pr ...
(''
editio princeps
In Textual scholarship, textual and classical scholarship, the ''editio princeps'' (plural: ''editiones principes'') of a work is the first printed edition of the work, that previously had existed only in manuscripts. These had to be copied by han ...
'') was published by
Enrique Flórez
Enrique or Henrique Flórez de Setién y Huidobro (July 21, 1702August 20, 1773) was a Spanish historian.
Biography
Flórez was born in Villadiego. At 15 years old, he entered the order of St Augustine. He subsequently became professor of theol ...
in 1767. A more recent edition, incorporating the recension known as the ''Chronicon conimbrigense'', was published under the title ''Annales Portugalenses veteres'' (APV, "old Portuguese annals") by Pierre David.
Editions
*Enrique Flórez, ed. ''España Sagrada'', XXIII, 2nd ed. (Madrid: 1799)
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*Pierre David, ed. "Annales Portugalenses Veteres", ''Revista Portuguesa de Historia'' 3 (1945): 81–128.
References
*Porter Conerly (1993). "Cronicones". In Germán Bleiberg. ''Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula''. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 469–70.
*J. Eduardo López Pereira (1978). "El Elemento godo en los «Annales Portugalenses Veteres»: un problema de crítica textual y de fuentes", ''Revista Portuguesa de Historia'' 16: 223–26.
Iberian chronicles
13th-century books in Latin