Editing Marianus Scotus

{{Short description|Irish monk and chronicler}}
{{hatnote|Not to be confused with [[Marianus Scotus of Regensburg]].}}
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'''Marianus Scotus''' (1028&ndash;1082 or 1083) was an [[Hiberno-Scottish mission|Irish monk]] and [[chronicle]]r.<ref>''[[New Catholic Encyclopedia]]'': Mab-Mor - Page 163  2003 "Marianus Scotus of Mainz, chronicler; b. Ireland, 1028; d. Mainz, Germany, Dec. 22, 1082 or 1083. Marianus (in Irish Moel Brigte) entered the monastery of Mag Bile (Moville, Co. Down) when he was 24 years old. He left Ireland in 1056, during ...":</ref> He authored the ''Chronica Clara'', a history of the world.<ref>{{Citation |last=Nothaft |first=C. Philipp E. |title=Worcester and the English Reception of Marianus Scotus |date=2022 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/constructing-history-across-the-norman-conquest/worcester-and-the-english-reception-of-marianus-scotus/7548C1C7DE8B4C1DC894174C23A2ED1E |work=Constructing History across the Norman Conquest: Worcester, c.1050-c.1150 |pages=150–173 |editor-last=Woodman |editor-first=D. A. |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-1-80010-541-6 |editor2-last=Tinti |editor2-first=Francesca}}</ref>

==Name==
Marianus Scotus is [[medieval Latin|Latin]] for "[[Marian (given name)|Marian]] the [[Ancient Scots|Scot]]", although that term at the time was still inclusive of the Irish. He is sometimes known as {{nowrap|'''Marianus Scotus of Mainz'''}} to distinguish him from [[Marianus Scotus of Regensburg]] and sometimes called {{nowrap|'''Máel Brigte'''}} (Modern {{langx|ga|Maelbhríde}}), "[[Saint Brigit|Brigit]]'s Servant". The name "Marianus" ('devotee of Mary') was doubtless given on the occasion of his becoming a monk on the Continent.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/codexpalatinovat00macc/page/4/mode/2up The Codex Palatino-Vaticanus, No. 830: Texts, Translations and Indices, MacCarthy, Bartholomew; Marianus Scotus, 1028-1082]</ref>

==Life==
An Irishman by birth, he was educated by a certain [[Tigernach Ua Braín|Tigernach]] and, having become a [[monk]] in 1052,<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Marianus Scotus|author=[[William Turner (bishop of Buffalo)|William Turner]]}}</ref> he travelled to Germany, on the continental mainland, in 1056, and his subsequent life was passed in the abbeys of St Martin at Cologne and of [[Abbey of Fulda|Fulda]], and at [[Mainz]]. He died in Mainz on 22 December 1082 or 1083,<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Marianus Scotus|first=Charles Lethbridge|last=Kingsford|volume=36}}</ref> and was buried in [[Mainz Cathedral]].

==Works==
Marianus wrote a ''Clear Chronicle'' ({{langx|la|Cronica Clara}}), which purports to be a [[Universal history (genre)|universal history]] from the creation of the world to 1082<ref>Leonard E. Boyle ''Medieval Latin Palaeography: A Bibliographical Introduction''  1984 – Page 97 "the chronicle of Marianus Scotus of Mainz"</ref> and which employed a dual numbering scheme on the misunderstanding that the [[Christian era]] computed by [[Dionysius Exiguus]] had been mistaken by 22 years. The chronicle was very popular during the [[Middle Ages]] and, in England, was extensively used by [[John of Worcester]] and other writers.<ref>Naomi Reed Kline ''Maps of Medieval Thought: The Hereford Paradigm'' 2001 Page 221 "In particular she cites the importance of the Universal Chronicle of Marianus Scotus of Mainz which was brought to Hereford by Bishop Robert of Hereford (1079-95);"</ref> It was first printed at [[Basel]] in 1559<ref>''CHRONICA: ad Euangelij ueritatem,…'' first edition: Jacobus Parcus, Basel, 1559 One issue can be retrieved in the [[Stadtbibliothek Mainz]] [Sign. IV e:2°/93].</ref> and has been edited with an introduction by [[Georg Waitz]] for the ''[[Monumenta Germaniae Historica]]: [https://archive.org/details/sim_monumenta-germaniae-historica_1852 Scriptores]'', Vol. V.<ref>See also [[W. Wattenbach]], ''Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen'' (Bd. ii., 1894).</ref>
Codex Palatino-Vaticanus 830 contains the Tripartite Chronicle of Marianus Scotus.

==See also==
* [[Tilmo]], Irish missionary, fl. 690.
* [[Aaron Scotus]] (died 1052)
* [[Marianus Scotus of Regensburg]] (died circa 1088)
* [[David Scotus]] (died 1139), chronicler
* [[Joseph Scottus]] (died near 800), Irish deacon, scholar, diplomat, poet, and ecclesiastic
* [[Johannes Scotus Eriugena]] ({{circa|lk=no|815–877}}), Irish theologian
* [[Sedulius Scottus]] (9th century), Irish teacher, grammarian and Scriptural commentator

==References==
===Citations===
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===Bibliography===
* {{EB1911|wstitle=Marianus Scotus}}
*[[William Reeves (bishop)|Reeves, William]], ''On Marianus Scotus, of Ratisbon'' ([[Royal Irish Academy]], 1860) ([https://books.google.com/books?id=zNxTHAAACAAJ title details] online at google.com)

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