Chronicon Petroburgense

Not to be confused with the Peterborough Chronicle, which is a manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, or Chronicon Angliae Petriburgense.

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First page of the Chronicon Petroburgense, in the manuscript book Liber Niger from Peterborough Abbey

The Chronicon Petroburgense, or Peterborough Chronicle, is a 13th-century chronicle written in Medieval Latin at Peterborough Abbey, England, covering events from 1122 to 1294.[1] It was probably written by William of Woodford, a sacrist and later abbot of Peterborough (1296–1299).[1] It survives as part of a Peterborough cartulary known as the "Liber Niger", or "Black Book", where it appears on folios 75–80 and 85–136.[2][Fn 1] The chronicle was edited by Thomas Stapleton and published by the Camden Society in 1849, with an appendix containing a transcription of the first 20 folios of the Liber Niger.[5] In his introduction to Stapleton's edition, John Bruce wrote that the Chronicon contained "valuable contributions to legal and constitutional history [that were] universally recognised".[6]

  1. ^ a b Martin 1978, p. 4.
  2. ^ Martin 1978, pp. 1–7.
  3. ^ Martin 1978.
  4. ^ Cox 1906, p. 84, n. 1.
  5. ^ Stapleton 1849.
  6. ^ Stapleton 1849, p. xiv.


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