times on the margin of the Chronicle, are collations from Manuscript A., together with a few notes. To A.D. 891, in common with Manuscript D., it is derived from a copy similar to Manuscript A., but with large additions, either from Beda or from a copy like that used for Manuscript D. It contains only a few scanty notices between A.D. 891 and A.D. 975, many years being wholly blank; but from that time it agrees more or less with Manuscripts C, D, and F, till they severally end. From A.D. 655 it has many late additions concerning Peterborough, to which monastery it appears to have belonged. It has also certain Latin notices interspersed between A.D. 114 and A.D. 812, which are derived from a source similar to that of the Chronicon Cadomense, printed by Duchesne."[1]
F. "The Cottonian Manuscript, Domitian A. viii. 2., from the Incarnation to A.D. 1056, in Saxon, in octavo or small quarto, is in a hand apparently of the twelfth century, and nearly of the same character throughout. It is often carelessly written, has many erasures, and is sometimes illegible, in which state it ends. Its basis to A.D. 891, in common with Manuscripts D. and E., was a copy similar to Manuscript G., with many additions, for the greater part resembling those copies; but the text, as compared with them, is generally compressed or slightly abbreviated. Like Manuscript E., it contains very little between A.D. 891 and A.D. 975, after which latter date it
- ↑ Monumenta Historica Britannica, Preface, p. 73. The spurious charters inserted in this manuscript, in favour of the abbey of Peterborough, and apparently of the twelfth century, will be found printed beneath the line, so as not to interrupt the general narrative. It may be here observed, that the latter part of this manuscript is rather a Chronicon Petroburgense than a 'Saxon Chronicle,' being mostly made up of matter relating to that abbey, as the brawls with abbot Henry, etc. etc.
