the Parker Chronicle

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The Parker Chronicle is a medieval manuscript version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, notable as one of the principal historical sources for early English history and preserved in the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

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instanceOf historical source
medieval manuscript
version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
alsoKnownAs A-version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 173 NERFINISHED
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge MS 173 NERFINISHED
associatedWith Archbishop Matthew Parker NERFINISHED
catalogueNumber MS 173
chronicleCoverageEnd 11th century
chronicleCoverageStart year 1
city Cambridge NERFINISHED
collection Parker Library collection NERFINISHED
conservationStatus well preserved
contains Latin marginalia
Old English annals
country United Kingdom
dateOfOrigin 9th century
late 9th century
donatedBy Matthew Parker NERFINISHED
genre annalistic history
chronicle
hasPart annals from the birth of Christ to the 11th century
language Old English
locatedIn Corpus Christi College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
Parker Library NERFINISHED
mainSubject Anglo-Saxon England NERFINISHED
Anglo-Saxon kings NERFINISHED
early English history
reign of Alfred the Great
material parchment
namedAfter Matthew Parker NERFINISHED
partOf Anglo-Saxon Chronicle tradition NERFINISHED
placeOfOrigin England NERFINISHED
regionDocumented Anglo-Saxon England NERFINISHED
kingdom of Wessex NERFINISHED
repository Corpus Christi College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
script Caroline minuscule NERFINISHED
scriptType insular script
significance earliest surviving manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
principal source for early English history
subjectOf scholarly research on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
typeOfWork historical narrative
usedBy medieval historians
modern historians of Anglo-Saxon England
writingMedium ink on parchment
writingSystem Latin alphabet
writtenIn Old English prose

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