Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 173, fols 1-56
173, fols 1-56
General Information
39
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Part I, The Parker Chronicle and Laws (fols 1-56): a manuscript which may have been originally produced in Winchester, s. ix/x-xi1. The manuscript was at Christ Church, Canterbury, by c. 1070.
Additions and alterations to the Chronicle in Old English, mainly by the scribe of Domitian A. viii, made in Canterbury, s. xi2-xii1 (Ker 1957, p. 59).
A single Canterbury hand of s. xi/xii added to the manuscript a Latin list of popes and the archbishops of Canterbury who were sent the pallium by them, and expanded a Latin list of popes. In s. xii further Latin additions were made to Latin lists of English archbishops and bishops in the manuscript.
Part II, Sedulius, Carmen Paschale (fols 57-83) is from s. viii, with English glosses from s. x-xi (?).
Digital Surrogate:
- Item: fols 1-32v
Title (B.17.1): Chronicles and Historical Texts: The Parker Chronicle [additions and alterations]
Text Language: English
Hand: The scribe of Domitian A. viii, s. xi/xii; a rounded hand, s. xii2; and nine annals are in a pointed hand, s. xii1 (Ker 1957, p. 59).
Note: A complete survey of the hands is given by Plummer 1952 and Thompson, and others, 1903-12.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, item 39
Object Description
Form Codex
Hand Description
Additional Information
Manuscript described by Mary Swan and Owen Roberson, with reference to published scholarship (2010; 2013).
Digital surrogate: https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/wp146tq7625 (accessed 18 July 2018)
History
Canterbury Christ Church by c. 1070
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Stanford University, Parker Library on the Web (http://parkerweb.stanford.edu/parker/; accessed in 2010)
Flower, Robin, and Hugh Smith, eds, The Parker Chronicle and Laws, Copus Christi College Cambridge, MS 173: A Facsimile, EETS, OS 208 (London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1941)
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 39
Plummer, Charles, ed., Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel, 2 vols (1892-99; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952)
Thompson, E. M., and others, eds, Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, etc, Series 1, New Palaeographical Society, 2 vols (London: Hart, Oxford University Press, 1903-12)
Mary Swan and Owen Roberson