Annals of Lorsch

Annales Laureshamenses · Anonymous (Lorsch abbey) · entries 703-803; compiled at Lorsch c. 803 · chronicle

Latin · domain: latin-historiography · researched 2026-11-14

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS 'Annales Laureshamenses' returns 5 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Annales%20Laureshamenses&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and none of them is an English translation: they are the Brepols edition of 2025, a 1967 facsimile of the Vienna fragment, and the MGH Scriptores volume. The newer Brepols record 'Annales Laureshamenses (703-803)' is an edition, not a translation. Individual entries, above all the account of Charlemagne's imperial coronation in 800, circulate inside English scholarship and source anthologies, but no continuous English rendering of the annals is published. The Latin text is on dMGH in SS 1 (https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_1/index.htm#page/(19)).

A short Frankish annal written at Lorsch in the 780s-790s and continued to 803, one of the four or five independent witnesses to the events of Charlemagne's reign. Its 800 entry is a principal source for how the imperial coronation was understood at the time, which makes its absence from English the more surprising.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Source and licence
dmgh · PDF scan · public domain (MGH edition, 1826) mgh_ss_1

Scanned witnesses

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Hollis query: "Annals of Lorsch" — 2 record(s); match basis author_title.

Record	Citation
Charlemagne : empire and society · 2005 · eng	"Charlemagne : empire and society." Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2005. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990095904150203941
The era of Charlemagne : Frankish state and society Easton, Stewart Copinger, 1907- · 1979, c1961 · eng	Easton, Stewart Copinger, 1907-. "The era of Charlemagne : Frankish state and society." Huntington, N.Y. : Krieger Pub. Co., 1979, c1961. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990010836780203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Annals of Lorsch” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-anonymus-annales-laureshamenses