Manuscript: BL Cotton Tiberius B.iv, fols. 3–9 and 19–86
Description (from Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle D* : s. xi med., xi2, W Midlands (Worcester?), (prov. Worcester, previously CaCC?).
Current location
- Repository
- British Library
- Town or City
- London
- Shelfmark
- Cotton Tiberius B.iv
Other information
- Name
- ASC D
- Catalogue Numbers
- G. 372
- K. 192
- Format
- Unspecified
- Date
- Unspecified
- Origin
- Worcester (dubitable)
Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (G. 372)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle D* : s. xi med., xi2, W Midlands (Worcester?), (prov. Worcester, previously CaCC?).
DigiPal Project
Ker: 'At 1051 the manuscript is perhaps a contemporary record. From about 1052 the text looks, palaeographically, as if it had been written up at intervals ... but the wording of some of the annals shows that they are not strictly contemporary'.
- Hand 1 (3r–9v)
- Hand 2 (19r–67v)
- Hand 3: 1016–51 and 1071–79 (68r–73r; 'apparently' also 83r11–86r)
- Hand 4: 1051 (73v)
- Hand 5: 1051–54 (74r–75v21)
- Hand 6: 1054–70 (75v–83r11) (DigiPal Scribe 10. Saec. xi2))
- Main Hand 6a (76v, top) (DigiPal Scribe 11. Saec. xi2))
- Hand 6b (77v, to start 1061) (DigiPal Scribe 12. Saec. xi2))
- Main Hand 6c (77v, after start 1061) (DigiPal Scribe 13. Saec. xi2))
- Main Hand 6d (83r1-11) (DigiPal Scribe 8. Saec. xi2))
- Main Hand 6e (83r11+) (DigiPal Scribe 9. Saec. xi2))