REGINON, or REGINO

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REGINON, or REGINO or PRUM, medieval chronicler, was born at Altripp near Spires, and was educated in the monastery of Prum. Here he became a monk, and in 892, just after the monastery had been sacked by the Danes, he was chosen abbot. In 899, however, he was deprived of this position and he went to Trier, where he was appointed abbot of St Martin's, a

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

which he reformed. He died in 915, and was buried in the abbey of St Maximin at Trier, his tomb being discovered there in 1581.
Reginon wrote a Chronicon, dedicated to

Adalberon

ADALBERON

, bishop of Augsburg (d. 909), which deals with the history of the world from the commencement of the Christian era to 906, especially the history of affairs in Lorraine and the neighbourhood. The first book (to 741) consists mainly of extracts from Bede, Paulus Diaconus and other writers; of the second book (741906) the latter part is

original

ORIGINAL

and valuable, although the chronology is at fault and the author relied chiefly upon tradition and hearsay for his information. The

work

WORK

was continued to 967 by a monk of Trier, possibly Adalbert, archbishop of Magdeburg (d. 981). The chronicle was first published at Mainz in 1521; another edition is in Band I. of the Monumenta Germaniae historica. Scriptores (1826); the best is the one edited by F. Kurze (Hanover, 189o). It has been translated into German by W.

Wattenbach

WATTENBACH, WILHELM (1819–1897)

(

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, 189o). Reginon also drew up at the request of his friend and patron Radbod, archbishop of Trier (d. 915), a collection of canons, Libri duo de synodalibus causis et disciplinis ecclesiasticis, dedicated to Hatto I., archbishop of Mainz; this is published in Tome 132 of J. P. Migne's Patrologia

Latina

LATINA, VIA

. To Radbod he wrote a

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

on music, Epistola de

harmonica

HARMONICA

institutione, with a Tonarius, the object of this being to improve the singing in the churches of the diocese. The

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

is published in Tome I. of Gerbert's Scriptores ecclesiastici de musica sacra (1784), and the Tonarius in Tome II. of Coussemaker's Scriptores de musica medii aevi. See also H. Ermisch, Die Chronik des Regino bis 813 (Gottingen, 1872); P. Schulz, Die Glaubwurdig keit des Abtes Reginol von Pram (Hamburg, 1894) ; C. Wawra, De Reginone Prumensis (Breslau, 1901); A. Molinier, Les Sources de l'histoire de France, Tome I. (1 01) ; and W.

Wattenbach

WATTENBACH, WILHELM (1819–1897)

, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen, Band I. (1904).

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