one which is represented by the Dublin copy and Wheloc's printed edition, have been distinguished as follows:—
| Ending at | |||||
| 1. | At Cambridge | 1070 | A | ||
| 2. | In the British Museum | 977 | B | ||
| 3. | ,, ,, ,, | 1066 | G | ||
| 4. | ,, ,, ,, | 1079 | D | ||
| 5. | ,, Bodleian Library (imperfect) | 1154 | E | ||
| 6. | ,,British Museum (imperfect) | 1058 | P | ||
| 7. | The Dublin MS. copy | 1001 | G (or W)[1] | ||
| (Wheloc's printed copy) |
MS. A (CCCC 173) is part of the bequest of Archbishop Parker (died 1575) to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and is now generally known as the Parker MS. It is written in many different hands, but as the entries down to 891 are all in one script, consistent with that date, it is not unreasonable to assume that this copy dates from the days of Alfred the Great, to whom the initiation of this national chronicle is without doubt to be ascribed. it is also obvious from the entries that it was written at his royal city of Winchester, though it was at a later date supplemented by contemporary scribes at Canterbury. There are, moreover, many interpolations by later hands, and notes by Joscelin, Archbishop Parker's secretary. It is generally regarded as the standard text.
MS. B, in the British Museum (Cott. Tib. A vi.) is all
- ↑ In Mr. Charles Plummer's edition of "Two Saxon Chronicles parallel" the text of G is indicated by the letter A as being a copy of the Cambridge MS., which he distinguishes by the symbol Ā. To his introduction to those parallel texts Ā and E (Clarendon Press, 1899) every student who requires an exhaustive description, analysis and comparison of all the existing texts in referred.
