This article contains information about the origins and travel through history of CCCC MS 173. It is generally believed to be the oldest surviving copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, dated to the 11th century.
The CCCC MS 173 is also known as:
The Parker Manuscript,
The Parker Chronicle,
The A-Version,
The Winchester Chronicle.
When and where these names were first attributed to it is still unknown to me.
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Contents
There are five booklets which have been bound together to form CCCC MS 173. Read more about the contents here.
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Provenance
The provenance of CCCC MS 173 is still being investigated. It appears out of obscurity while in the possession of Dr. Wotton. Read more about the provenance here.
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Paleography
There are some details about how it was dated paleographically in Parkes [6] starting on page 153.
“The hands were dated as follows by Dr G. F. Warner (l. c. p. xxvii note). Nos. 1-6 900-930; no. 7 cir. 930; no. 8 cir. 960; no. 10 cir. 1000; no. 11 cir. 1075.” – [7]
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References:
[1] – https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/wp146tq7625
[2] – https://archive.org/details/sourcesofarchbis00jamerich/page/n7/mode/1up
[3] – WRIGHT, C. E. “THE DISPERSAL OF THE MONASTIC LIBRARIES AND THE BEGINNINGS OF ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES: MATTHEW PARKER AND HIS CIRCLE: A PRELIMINARY STUDY.” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, vol. 1, no. 3, 1951, pp. 208–237. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41337126. Accessed 11 June 2020.
[4] – PAGE, R. I. “THE PARKER REGISTER AND MATTHEW PARKER’S ANGLO-SAXON MANUSCRIPTS.” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, vol. 8, no. 1, 1981, pp. 1–17. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41154594. Accessed 11 June 2020.
[5] – Sparks, Nicholas A. “Finding Matthew Parker in Manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 108, no. 1, 2014, pp. 107–111. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/680837. Accessed 11 June 2020.
[6] – PARKES, M. B. “The Palaeography of the Parker Manuscript of the ‘Chronicle’, Laws and Sedulius, and Historiography at Winchester in the Late Ninth and Tenth Centuries.” Anglo-Saxon England, vol. 5, 1976, pp. 149–171. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44510673. Accessed 11 June 2020.
[7] – https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:yf997gt4211/MS_173.pdf
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