Manuscript E: Bodleian MS. Laud Misc 636

Physical Description of the Manuscript.

Location and Identification

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc 636.

Date

1121x1200

Contents

The E version of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and a short Anglo-Norman Chronicle of Britain added in the margins in a late thirteenth-century hand.

Writing Surface

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Size

Size of the page (cut-down leaves)
210 x 145 mm.
Size of the page (uncut leaves, 86-90)
240 x 165 mm.
Size of written area
170 x 100 mm.

Folios 86 to 90 were left uncut to preserve an Anglo-Norman chronicle contained on their margins. This chonicle has not been transcribed for this edition.

It is very likely that the pages were cut to their present size when the manuscript was interleaved with paper: first, the paper and the margins were used by L'isle for his annotations, and at this time the margins had been cut to their present size; second, part of the sixteenth century marginal entries have been cut away. However, the manuscript mave also been previously cropped .

Condition

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Collation

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Brief

1-710, 810 +1 after 10, 910.

Expanded

110
(fos 1-10)
210
(fos 11-20)
310
(fos 21-30)
410
(fos 31-40)
510
(fos 41-50)
610
(fos 51-60)
710
(fos 61-70)
810 +1 after 10
(fos 71-81
910
(fos 82-91)

Pictorial

Note: the quire arrangement needs to be checked.

Pictorial representation of the collation (part 1)

Pictorial representation of the collation (part 2)

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 two twelfth-century hands. For more details on the scribes and their hands see Irvine, xviii-xxiii.

Hand 1
Responsible for the annals through 1131. The text to 1121 appears to have been copied as a single block. The remaining entries appear to have been written in six blocks over the following decade or so:
  1. 1122
  2. 1123
  3. 1124
  4. 1125 to 1126 lande
  5. 1126 on þes ilces geares to 1127
  6. 1128 to 1131
Hand 2
Responsible for annals 1132 to 1154, which were probably entered asa single block.

Other Medieval Hands

There are several marginalia in late thirteenth- or fourteenth-century hands. Most of these display an interest in Peterborough affairs, suggesting the manuscript remained there after its composition.

Some of these marginalia lost text when the pages were cropped. This lost text has been inferred where possible. Below is a list of these marginalia and their hands:

Annotator 1
This hand was writing after the addition of the Anglo-Norman Chronicle, as his annotations to folios 86 to 90 respect the text of this Chronicle and are added to the inner margin, rather than the wider outer margin. He was responsible for the following marginalia:
  1. <Not>a contra Iudeos by 431
  2. Ecclesia Cant' by 565
  3. De adue<ntu Aug'> above 596
  4. <...> Ecclesie on 12v. Not visible in the facsimile.
  5. Nota de prima fun<datione> by 654
  6. <R>estaur' per Wlfer' R' by 656
  7. <De fundation>e eliensis ecclesie by 673
  8. <Co>nfirm' Reg' <Ethel>redi by 675
  9. <B>ulla pape Agathon also by 675
  10. De Archiepiscopis also by 675
  11. Abbas quasi Legatus Rome also by 675
  12. Pro illis qui uoueru<nt...>cur' Romana also by 675
  13. Sentent' pape A<gathonis> also by 675
  14. iij Abbas post <Saxulf'> by 686
  15. Nota de Scu<...> by 777
  16. <D>e Restaur' per Reg' by 963
  17. <Nomen d>omo impositum also by 963
  18. Translatio Sanctarum <Kynesuithe et> Kyneburge also by 963
  19. Obiit Sanctus Adhel<woldus> by 984
  20. Gylden<burgh> by 1056
  21. De Abbate Turo<lde> by 1070
  22. combustio Bolh<ithe> also by 1070
  23. <combustio?> Ecclesie also by 1070
  24. Comb<ustio> by 1077
  25. Combustio <Ecclesie?> by 1116
  26. Combus<tio> Gloucest<rie> by 1122
  27. Nota de <monetariis> by 1125
  28. Adhuc by 1127
  29. Nota de Archidiaconis et beneficiis by 1129
  30. De Scot' by 1135
  31. Dissensio inter Reg' et Barr' by 1137
  32. Nota de Redd' de Audeuuyncle also by 1137
  33. De sancto Willelmo also by 1137
  34. Scot' by 1138
The same hand is also responsible for: the pointing hands at 286, 656, 675 (two), 963, 1056 (points at the marginal Gylden<burgh>) and 1066; the fish at 675; and perhaps the Amen at 675.
Annotator 2
This hand was responsible for a few references to saints:
  1. <De sancto Oswald?>o by 641
  2. <s>ancti uuilfridi by 709
  3. Obiit Sanctus <Guthlacus> by 714
  4. De Sancto I<ohanne> ...bern... by 721
Though not a saintly reference, he was possibly also responsible for De Sempyn<gham> by 852
Annotator 3
This hand was responsible for several references to Peterborough of the form De Burch or De Burgo (with varying losses of text) at annals: 654, 656, 675, 777, 852, 963, 1013 (two) and 1069.
Annotator 4
This hand was responsible for several references to Peterborough of the form Burg or De Burg' at annals: 1130, 1131, 1132, and 1137. He was also responsible for a reference to Abbas Martinus near the end of annal 1132.
Inscriptional Hand
This hand was responsible for the addition of Reges Peada et Oswinus fundauerunt primo ecclesiam at the bottom of folio 14r (see 654). The same hand may also be responsible for the addition of Brando abbas to 1069 and <Here>ward' to 1070.
Other medieval annotations
Two Peterborough references: 1052 and 1114
<Leofr>icus abbas to 1066
<Ab>bas Henricus to 1127
A number of late, faint entries in lead (1v, 19r, 24r, 26v, 37v; none visible in the facsimile)

Early Modern Hands

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Parkerian Annotations
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William L'Isle
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Origin

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Provenance

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Binding

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Bibliography

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