The Chronicon Ovetense: transmission of texts in the kingdom of Leon, 11th-13th centuries

The study of Divisio Wambae transmission led us to analyse five manuscripts that keep, through four different versions, fragments of what we called after Ferreras "Chronicon Ovetense" that comes with several appendices. The pieces belonging to such work, clearly interpolated, constitute a heterogeneous assemblage which objective is to exalt Oviedo's episcopal see through Alfonso II the Chaste's figure. Its content has been associated to the forgeries attributed to bishop Pelayo. However, a more detailed analysis shows that far away from being derived from his works, this text is one of his sources as well as one of Lucas de Tuy's Chronicon Mundi and of Cronica Najerense, which have used information and textual variants lacking in Pelayo. One of the manuscripts grants that an earlier state of the collection existed before the prototype later disseminated in the Kingdom of Leon. The document's poor quality explains its gradual disappearance to the benefit of more elaborate chronicles.