Annals of Vendôme

The Annals of Vendôme (French: Annales de Vendôme), from Latin Annales Vindocinenses (Annales vendômoises), are a set of medieval annals covering events from 678 to 1346. They survive in a single manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 309), the exemplar of which came from the Abbey of the Trinity at Vendôme. Indirectly, they derive from an initial collation of annals made at the Cathedral of Saint-Maurice in Angers in the third quarter of the eleventh century. It has been proposed that Abbot Geoffrey of Vendôme introduced the annals of Angers into his abbey and began their continuation.^[1] The continuations continued down to 1346. In the manuscript, the annals are preceded by a computus table.

Editions

• Louis Halphen, ed. "Annales Vindocinenses, et continuationes". Recueil d'annales angevines et vendomoises, pp. 50–79. Paris, 1903.

Notes

1. Stéphane Lecouteux (2009), "L'abbé Geoffroy de Vendôme (1093–1132), initiateur des Annales de Vendôme?" Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 52 (1 [205]): 37–43.