The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220

Mary Swan and Owen Roberson

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 173

English additions to text of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Date: s. xi2-xii1

Summary:

Part I, The Parker Chronicle and Laws (fols 1-56): a manuscript which may have been originally produced in Winchester, s. ix/x-xi1. The Manuscript was at Christ Church, Canterbury, by c. 1070.

Additions and alterations to the Chronicle in Old English, mainly by the scribe of Domitian A. viii, made in Canterbury, s. xi2-xii1 (Ker 1957, p. 59).

A single Canterbury hand of s. xi/xii added to the manuscript a Latin list of popes and the archbishops of Canterbury who were sent the pallium by them, and expanded a Latin list of popes. In s. xii further Latin additions were made to Latin lists of English archbishops and bishops in the manuscript.

Part II, Sedulius, Carmen Paschale (fols 57-83) is from s. viii, with English glosses from s. x-xi (?).

Manuscript Items:

1. Item: fols 1-32v

   Title (B.17.1): Chronicles and Historical Texts: The Parker Chronicle [additions and alterations]

   Text Language: English

   Hand: The scribe of Domitian A. viii, s. xi/xii; a rounded hand, s. xii2; and nine annals are in a pointed hand, s. xii1 (Ker 1957, p. 59).

   Note: A complete survey of the hands is given by Plummer 1952 and Thompson, and others, 1903-12.

   Bibliography:

   Ker 1957, item 39

   Plummer 1952

   Thompson, and others, 1903-12

Administration Information:

Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013)

Bibliography:

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Stanford University, Parker Library on the Web (http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/parker/; accessed in 2010)

Flower, Robin, and Hugh Smith, eds, The Parker Chronicle and Laws, Copus Christi College Cambridge, MS 173: A Facsimile, EETS, OS 208 (London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1941)

Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 39

Plummer, Charles, ed., Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, 2 vols (1892-99; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952)

Thompson, E. M., and others, eds, Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, etc, Series 1, New Palaeographical Society, 2 vols (London: Hart, Oxford University Press, 1903-12)