MS A -- Description
Location and Identification
- Corpus Christi College, Cambridge MS 173 fos. 1-32
Date
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Contents
- A version of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Writing Surface
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Size
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- Size of the page
- 287 x 206 mm.
- Size of written area (fos 1-16)
- 245 x 145 mm.
- Size of written area (fos 17-18)
- 230 x 160 mm.
- Size of written area (fos 19-30)
- 225 x 140 mm.
Condition
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Collation
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This collation only includes the Chronicle section of MS A. All quires in
this section consist of 8 folios.
- I
- wants 1 (fos 1-7)
- II
- +1 after 8; 2 and 7 are half sheets (fos 8-16)
- III
- +1 after 8; 3 and 6 are half sheets (fos 17-25)
- IV
- wants 8 (fos 26-32)
Page Layout
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Decoration and Structure Markers
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Writing material
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Paleographic Description
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For a fuller description of the scribes and their hands, see Bately, xxi-xlii. A summary
of these is given below:
- Hand 1
- Responsible for the text to end of the first part of the annal
for 891. Parkes dates hand 1 to 890-900. Dumville prefers an early 10th century date.
Bately, Ker and Brown date hand 1 to the late 9th or early 10th century.
- Hand 1a
- Responsible for the, now erased, material that concludes the
annal 845.
- Hand 1b
- An interpolator, responsible for material in the
annal 860.
- Hand 2a
- Hand 2b
- Hand 2c
- Hand 2d
- Hand 2e
- Hand 2f
- Hand 3
- Hand 3a
- Hand 4
- Hand 5
- Hand 5a
- Hand 5b
- Hand 6
- Hand 6a
- Hand 7
- Hand 7a
- Hand 8
- Hand 8a
- Hand 8b
- Hand 8c
- Hand 8d
- Hand 8e
- Hand 8f
- Hand 8g
- Hand 9
- Hand 9a
- Hand 10
- Hand 11
- Hand 12
- An annotator, possibly writing in the second quarter of the 11th century.
Responsible for the addition of annals 200,
250, and 300
- Hand 13
Medieval Hands
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For a fuller description of the medieval hands, see Bately, xliii-xlvi. A summary
of these is given below:
- The Frithestan Annotator
- The Circle and Cross Annotator
Early Modern Hands
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For a fuller description of the early modern hands, see Bately, xliii-xlvi. A summary
of these is given below:
- Joscelyn
- John Joscelyn (1529-1603), was Archbishop Parker's secretary, and was
responsible for entering a number of alternative readings and corrections:
381, 409, 423,
430, 443, 565,
604, 606, 610,
616.
- Archbishop Parker
- The Talbot Annotator
- William L'isle
- Abraham Wheloc
Origin
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Provenance
- Acquired in the mid-sixteenth century by Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury,
from Nicholas Wutton. It was bequeathed by Parker to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in
1575 and has remained there since.
Binding
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Bibliography
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Copyright © 1995, Tony Jebson <aj@wg.icl.co.uk>,
all rights reserved. Last modified 17/01/95.