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Chronicle of St Benedict of Monte Cassino

Chronica Sancti Benedicti Casinensis · Anonymous (Monte Cassino) · 9th-10th century; covers 529-913 · 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 'Chronica Sancti Benedicti Casinensis' returns 9 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Chronica%20Sancti%20Benedicti%20Casinensis&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 including Hoffmann's MGH volume of 1980, a Brepols edition of 2025 ('529-913') and the 1878 Scriptores rerum Langobardicarum volume; none is a translation into English. No English rendering appears under any title variant. The Latin is at dMGH in SS rer. Lang. 1 (https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_rer_lang_1/index.htm#page/(467)).

A short Cassinese chronicle that carries the community through the destruction of the abbey by the Lombards in 577 and its refoundation at San Vincenzo al Volturno, and is the basis for the abbey's early history as later writers told it. It is the oldest layer of the Monte Cassino historical tradition that the English reader can reach only through Leo of Ostia's much later paraphrase.

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, 1878)
mgh_ss_rer_lang_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: Chronicle of St Benedict of Monte Cassino — 2 record(s); match basis author_title_unquoted.

RecordCitation
The history of the monastery founded at Tynemouth, in the diocese of Durham, to the honour of God, under the invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and S. Oswin, king and martyr
Gibson, William Sydney, 1814-1871 · 1846-47 · eng
Gibson, William Sydney, 1814-1871. "The history of the monastery founded at Tynemouth, in the diocese of Durham, to the honour of God, under the invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and S. Oswin, king and martyr." London : W. Pickering, 1846-47. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990025579390203941
Great historical enterprises. Problems in monastic history
Knowles, David, 1896-1974 · 1964, c1963 · eng
Knowles, David, 1896-1974. "Great historical enterprises. Problems in monastic history." London, New York, Nelson [1964, c1963]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990008969910203941

Sources checked

Cite: Tergwame, “Chronicle of St Benedict of Monte Cassino” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-anonymus-chronica-sancti-benedicti-casinensis