[Die älteste deutsche Chronik von Colmar]
ca 1403. Alsace. This prose work in High German straddles the genres of world and town chronicle. It opens with some short notes on the creation of the world, on the founding of Rome and Trier, and on the patriarchs, which reveal an implicit knowledge of the aetatesmundi-scheme. This universalistic beginning is drawn mostly from Martin of Opava and appears to be inserted mainly to satisfy convention, since the by far longest passage deals with Noah's invention of wine and the familiar story of its four characteristics. Then the author d…