Annales Cavenses
The Annales Cavenses are a chronicle compiled at the La Trinità della Cava abbey in Cava de' Tirreni, province of Salerno, southern Italy.
It consists of annalistic entries spanning the years 568 to 1318, i.e. essentially the entire duration of the Middle Ages in Italy.
Some of the entries are of scientific interest as historical records of events such as earthquakes or astronomical phenomena. The text was first edited in 1839 by Georg Heinrich Pertz in his Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
Not to be confused is the so-called Chronicon Cavense, a work which was once considered authentic but in 1847 was established as an 18th-century forgery due to Francesco Maria Pratilli.
