MS. C : a semi-diplomatic edition with introduction and indices

Author(s)

• O'Keeffe, Katherine O'Brien

Bibliographic Information

MS. C : a semi-diplomatic edition with introduction and indices

edited by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe

（The Anglo-Saxon chronicle : a collaborative edition / general editors, David Dumville & Simon Keynes, v. 5）

D.S. Brewer, 2001

Uniform Title

Anglo-Saxon chronicle

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. cxv-cxxi) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

An important source of information for the reign of Edward the Confessor, with a unique political perspective on the ascendency of Godwine and his sons. This volume presents a semi-diplomatic edition of the text of MS C (London, British Library Cotton, Tiberius B.i). Usually referred to as "the Abingdon Chronicle", it was substantially copied in the mid-eleventh century and continued to be so sporadically thereafter; the supplement to its abrupt ending by a twelfth-century reader suggests that it was still of interest in the period after the Conquest. The C-text is an important source of information for the reign of Edward the Confessor, and it brings a unique political perspective to the ascendency of Godwine and his sons. The traditional association of the text, manuscript or both with the reformed monastery of Abingdon hasbeen an important feature of the current understanding of the interrelationships among the several texts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. The present edition examines the various arguments for associating the C-text with Abingdon andthe difficulties inherent in these arguments. It brings to bear evidence from the palaeography and codicology of the manuscript as well as text historical and linguistic evidence. The introduction to the text considers the different strands composing the C-text, and the close relationships of this text to MSS B, D, and E, and the volume is completed with indices of persons, peoples and places. Professor KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFFE teaches in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

• The manuscript: history
• physical description
• contents
• scribes
• scribal practices. The text: textual relationships
• the attribution to Abingdon. Language: the language of hands 1-7
• orthography
• phonology
• morphology
• the language of hand 8
• orthography
• accidence. Conventions of editing.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA6938413X
• ISBN:
  • 0859914917
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: angeng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: cxxi, 150 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 942.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- History -- Anglo Saxon period, 449-1066
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00462440
• Uniform Title ID:
  • EA0000907X