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Add MS 34652, f 2
- Record Id:
- 040-003310690
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002087611
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100030386204.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100101170052.0x000004
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 34652, f 2
- Title:
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Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic to Alfred
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (G text), with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899). Cotton Otho B xi, ff. 1-47 and Cotton Otho B x, ff. 55, 58, 62 (damaged by fire), contain the remaining portion of the G text, dated 950-1025. It is a copy of the earliest version, or A text, the Parker Chronicle (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 173), though some of the dates differ. Incipit: 'Þy geare pe waes agan fram cristes acennednesse', explicit, 'on wealum geeodon'.
Decoration:
Large initial 'þ'(y geare) in brown at the beginning of the preface.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002087611
040-003310690 - Is part of:
- Add MS 34652 : Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (fragment); a collection of manuscript fragments and facsimiles
Add MS 34652, f 2 : Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle with the West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic to Alfred - Hierarchy:
- 032-002087611[0001]/040-003310690
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 34652
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 folio, part of a parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100101103337.0x000001
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- Languages:
- English
English, Old - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0950
- End Date:
- 1025
- Date Range:
- 950-1025
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm (text space: 210 x 150mm).
Script: Anglo-Saxon minuscule.
- Publications:
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Bibliography for f. 2:
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 181, 200.
Die Version G der angelsächsischen Chronik: Rekonstruktion und Edition, ed. by Angelika Lutz (Munich: Fink, 1981).
The Anglo-Saxon chronicle: a Collaborative Edition, 3, MS A, ed. by Janet Bately (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1986), ff. xiii, xv [on the G text].
Thomas A. Bredehoft, Textual Histories: Readings in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2001), pp. 27-28 [f. 2].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)