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Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 30r–70v
- Record Id:
- 041-001103653
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001660.0x000008
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060747426.0x000009
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 30r–70v
- Title:
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, F-text
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain a version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle written in both Old English and Latin, known as the 'F' text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It was probably produced at Christ Church Canterbury in the late 11th or early 12th century.
Decoration: red initials (ff. 30r and 31r); faded red text and manicula throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103650
041-001103653 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Domitian A VIII : Libellus de primo Saxonum aduentu; Letter of Pope Paschal II; Concordat of Worms; Planctus of Oedipus; Hildebert of…
Cotton MS Domitian A VIII, ff 30r–70v : Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, F-text - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[1153]/040-001103650[0003]/041-001103653
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Domitian A VIII
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Domitian_A_viii (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1075
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 11th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury: The script of the folios and their content (such as an increased focus on archbishops of Canterbury, compared to other versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) suggests they were written at Christ Church, Canterbury. The main scribe of the text was also one of the annotators of the Parker Chronicle or 'A' version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, now Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 173. These folios may have originally formed one volume with Cambridge, University Library, Hh.1.10 (a copy of Ælfric's Grammar) (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 22).
Provenance:
Christ Church, Canterbury: Christ Church mark 'IA' (f. 30r).
15th century annotations (see, for example, f. 41v).
? Matthew Parker (b. 1504, d. 1575), archbishop of Canterbury: owned Cambridge, University Library, Hh.1.10, of which this fragment may have formed a part; a list of his gifts to the University of Cambridge mentions a 'Historia Angliae Sax.' followed by a grammar (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 22).
Early modern annotations (see, for example, f. 39v): associated with Robert Talbot (b. 1505/6, d. 1558), William Lisle (b. c. 1569, d. 1637), and William Camden (see Harrison, 'William Camden' (2007), p. 222).
William Camden (b. 1551, d. 1623), historian and herald: owned by him, according to James Ussher (see Bodleian MS Smith 21, p. 63).
- Information About Copies:
- David Dumville (ed.), The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition I, a Facsimile of MS F: The Domitian Bilingual (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995).
- Publications:
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Baker, Peter S., ed., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, 8, MS F (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000) [includes an edition].
Bredehoft, Thomas, Textual Histories: Readings in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001), pp. 5-6.
Da Rold, Orietta and others (eds), The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220, ed. by Orietta Da Rold and others, electronic book (University of Leicester, 2010; last update 2013), [https://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.BL.Domi.viii.htm].
Gameson, Richard, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130) (Oxford: British Academy, 1999), no. 378.
Gneuss, Helmut and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 328.
Gransden, Antonia, Historical Writing in England c. 550 – c. 1307 (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1974), pp. 24-34.Harrison, Julian, 'William Camden the F-Text of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle', Notes and Queries, 54 (2007), 222-24.
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 158.
Keynes, Simon, 'Manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle', in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 6 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999-2012), I: 400-1100 (2012), ed. by Richard Gameson, pp. 537-52 (pp. 542, 545, 547-50, 552).
Magoun, Francis P., Jr., ‘Annales Domitiani Latini: an edition’, Mediaeval Studies, 9 (1947), 235–95.
Plummer, Charles and John Earle (eds), Two of the Saxon Chronicles, Parallel, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1892-1899).
Whitelock, Dorothy Whitelock, Susie Tucker, and D.C. Douglas (eds), The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. A revised translation (London: Spottiswoode and Eyre, 1961).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)