Manuscript C: Cotton Tiberius B.i

Physical Description of the Manuscript.

Location and Identification

Manuscript C of the Chronicle comprises quires 15 to 22 of London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B.i.

Date

1044x1100

Contents

C version of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Writing Surface

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Size

Size of written area
212 x 130 mm.

Condition

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Collation

The collation below is a reconstruction by O'Brien O'Keeffe.

Brief

15-208, 214, 222.

Expanded

158
(fos 112-119)
168
(fos 120-127)
178
(fos 128-135)
188
(fos 136-143)
198
(fos 144-151)
208
(fos 152-159)
214
(fos 161, 163, 160, 162) Reconstructed
222
(fos 164-165)

Pictorial

Pictorial representation of the collation

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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Chronicle Scribes

The manuscript is written in seven eleventh-century hands with one supply sheet in a twelfth-century hand. For a fuller description of the scribes and their hands, see Irvine, xxvii-xxxiii. A summary of these is given below:

Hand 1
Responsible for the annals through 490.
Hand 2
Responsible for annals 491 - 1048.
Hand 3
Responsible for annals 1049 - 1052 to þær wæs lyt.
Hand 4
Responsible for annals 1052 from elles - 1053to tostig.
Hand 5
Responsible for annals 1053 from Ða on oðran easterdæge- 1056.
Hand 6
Responsible for annals 1065 - 1066 to sandwic.
Hand 7
Responsible for annal 1066 to þa normen.
Hand 8
Responsible for folio 164r.

Early Modern Hands

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Robert Talbot
Robert Talbot (died 1558), prebendary of Norwich, was the earliest known owner of Tiberius B. i. He annotated the manuscript with many underlinings and marginal notations which are not (as yet) included in this edition. He also wrote a note at the top of folio 3r, which reads Rex alfredus orosium interpretatus est boetium et bedam de historia ecclesiastica. This note is transcribed in Leland's Collectanea.
John Joscelyn
John Joscelyn (1529-1603), was Archbishop Parker's secretary. He was responsible for adding missing annal numbers 1055, 1065 and 1066. He also supplied missing text from D in two places in annal 1066, and also at the end of the otherwise incomplete annal 1056.

Origin

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Provenance

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Binding

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Bibliography

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