The most recent edition is that of the Rev. C. Plummer, M.A., Corpus Christi College, Oxford (vol. I, 1892, II, 1899). His symbol for this MS. is Ā. He describes it fully at p. xxiii sqq. of vol. II

Facsimiles in Mon. Hist. Brit. pl. xxiii, xxiv and New Pal. Soc. pls. 134-136

On previous editions of the text see Plummer's Introduction

The Chronicle, mostly in single columns except f. 1v (part) to f. 4v sub fin. where it is in double columns: number of lines varying from 39 to 25

A complete survey of the hands in which this is written is given by Plummer, p. xxv, § 13 and in the New Pal. Soc.
Plummer's list summarized is as follows:
1. To the end of f. 16r death of Suibhne in 891, and the year-number 892.
2. f. 16v including part of 894 (to Ac hi haefdon).
3. f. 17r-17v.
4. f. 18r to f. 21r sub fin. (end of 912).
5. f. 21r sub fin. to f. 24v sub fin. (end of 921) except three lines on f. 28v.
6. Three lines on f. 23v (gefaran mehte ... abraecon), four lines on f. 24v (beginning of 922): apparently more, now erased and re-written on f. 23v. A poor scribe.
7. f. 25r-25v to end of 924, half of f. 25v left blank.
8. f. 26r to f. 27v, end of 955.
9. f. 28r and year-number 968 on f. 28v.
10. f. 28v to f. 30r sub fin., end of 1001, except the last ten words.
So far the Winchester portion.
11. (Year-numbers on f. 30r?) f. 30v to f. 31v, end of 1066, except the last sentence about the comet and the fragmentary charter at 1031.
12. f. 31v last sentence of 1066 and first part of 1070 to gehersumnesse mid aðswerunge.
13. The charter at 1031 and the remainder of 1070.
14. The Latin Acts of Lanfranc and some of the lists of bishops etc.

There are also numerous interpolations, most of them by the scribe 14 who is also according to Mr Plummer the scribe of Domitian A. VIII (the Latin-Saxon Chronicle called F). Others are:
The annals 710 accidentally omitted, supplied by scribe 8.
Additions at 923 and 941 by no. 11 (a Christchurch hand).
Additions relating to Dunstan at 925 (first part), 943, 956, 959, 961, by no. 12.
Early additions at (688), 728, 870, 890, 993, 1001.
At 988 is a beautifully-written small Latin note on the death of Dunstan.
The hands were dated as follows by Dr G. F. Warner (l. c. p. xxvii note). Nos. 1-6 900-930; no. 7 cir. 930; no. 8 cir. 960; no. 10 cir. 1000; no. 11 cir. 1075.
For remarks on the character and affinities of the script, the description in New Pal. Soc. should be consulted

Cameron B17.1, incorporating the Chronicle poems Cameron A10.1-4

The Latin Acts of Lanfranc are printed by Plummer, vol. I, App. B, pp. 287-292. In the MS. this Parkerian note is prefixed to them in the margin

hec habentur in libro S. Aug. cui titulus est Diversi tractatus monasterii S. Augustini

The book here mentioned was formerly in Parker's possession, but is marked in his Register as missing at the time when the collection was bequeathed to the College. It is now MS. 1213 in the Lambeth Library

The next two quires containing the Laws are apparently all in one hand, with 25 lines to a page

Liebermann, Gesetze p. xxiv, calls this MS. E, and assigns it to cir. 925. It is the oldest of his authorities. Text, p. 16

The writer in New Pal. Soc. speaks of the writing as “rounded English minuscules of the eleventh century”

The capitula occupy ff. 33r-35r

blank

Laws of Alfred

Laws of Ine

Cameron B14.4

Incipiunt nomina pontificum romane urbis

The names as far as Damasus are in one hand: from Damasus to Julius in a second hand, and from Liberius (lx) to Marinus (cxxxv—the numbers being continued to clxx) in a hand which may be that of the Latin on f. 32r (Acts of Lanfranc)

Two blank pages follow (ff. 53v, 54r)

Then the list of the Popes who sent palls to archbishops, mostly in one hand of cent. xi (scribe of Acts of Lanfranc2): but the last two entries are added later, viz. Urbanus Anselmo, Paschalis Radulfo

The lists of Archbishops and Bishops on the next leaf are in one hand, English of cent. x (?). They are in five columns

Column 1:
Nomina archiepiscoporum dorouernensis ecclesie,
i Agustinus to xxiii Dunstan

Column 2:
Nomina episcoporum hrofensis ecclesie,
i Paulinus to xv Ælfstan

Column 3:
“Nomina episcoporum orientalium Saxonum”
i Mellitus to xx Ælfstan

Column 4:
Nomina episcoporum australium Saxonum
i Ƿilfrið to xvii Æþelgar

Column 5:
Nomina episcaporum occidentalium Saxonum.
i. Primus occidentalium Saxonum birinus fuit episcopus qui cum consilio honorii papae uenerat brittanniam to xix Ealhferð
After xiii the numbers were originally written wrong and corrected

On verso, original hand

Col. 1 continues lists of West Saxon Bishops.
xx Tumberht to xxvii ælfheah

Col. 2. Nomina episcoporum Scireburnensis ecclesie
i Aldhelm to xix æƿelsige

Col. 3. Nomina episcoporum ƿiltuniensis ecclesie
i æþelstan to vii sigric

And, below

Nomina episcoporum cridiensis ecclesiae
i Eadulf to iii Alfƿold

Besides these are three Latin paragraphs in brown ink in Christ Church (Canterbury) hand, viz.

a. (col. 1)

Nomina episcoporum lindisfarnensis id est dunelmensis ecclesie. Aidanus, Finanus etc.

ending

Walcherus, Willelmus, Rannulfus

b. (col. 4)

Nomina episcoporum eboracensis ecclesie
Primus ipsius ecclesie presul erat paulinus. Ordinatus arusto (sic for a iusto) archiepiscopo accipiens pallium ad consecrandum dorobernensem archiepiscopum ab honorio papa Hac enim de causa pallium habuit. (Here 1.5 lines erased.) Turbatis postea rebus northanhymbrorum paulinus rediit cantiam et quoniam rofensis ecclesia pastore tunc fuerat destituta: inuitante honorio archiepiscopo curam ipsius ecclesie suscepit. in qua moriens pallium reliquit. Post cuius discessum ab ecclesia eboracensi quod fuit anno. dc xxxiii dominice incarnat. usque dcc. xxxv. annum incarnacione dominice hoc est per cii. annos presides eboracenses non habuerunt pallium. Primus ipsius ecclesie presul paulinus. Ceadda, Wilfridus etc. to Thomas, Gerardus, Thomas

c. Across the page at bottom

Sciendum quod theodorus archiepiscopus sepe northanhymbrorum prouinciam sua presentia uisitauit epos, ordinando et in quibus locis ante non fuerant constituendo et alia primatis anglorum officia administrando. Testatur namque beda quod pulso ab episcopatu pro sua inobedientia Wilfrido duos in eius locum substituit episcopos (etc. he ordained other bishops and presided at a synod in Northumbria). Hec et alia nonnulla ex iure primatis anglorum suo tempore ibidem exercuit. etiam eo tempore quo eboracensis ecclesia suum episcopum habuit. bosam uidelicet qui Wilfrido successerat

After this a hand more like that of the Lists, but not identical with it, writes

Hec sunt nomina regum cantie post aduentum Sancti Augustini, Ægelberhtus, Eadbaldus, Hercanberhtus, Egberhtus, Lotharius, Wihtredus, Eadberhtus, Ægelbertus

The last leaf of the quire (7) is ruled but blank (f. 56r-56v): edges have been cut off it

(cent. viii-ix Bradshaw)

ff. 57r-58v are in single lines, in a different hand from the rest3, 33 lines to a page. The rest is in double columns of 27 lines. Both hands are of Celtic aspect. The first is much rounder and more legible than the second

At the top of f. 57r in large capitals is

FRI ÐESTAN

(followed by diacon in minuscule)

The first three letters appear to have been written over some others, two of which appear to be IN. The letters in DES (with a tall minuscule s) seem perhaps to be altered from DEI. I have some suspicion that an inscription in capitals IN DEI NOMINE has been partly erased and adapted to FRIÐESTAN. Dr G. F. Browne, Bishop of Bristol, has suggested that this name may be an early signature of Frithestan afterwards (909) Bishop of Winchester

References are made here to the edition by Huemer in the Vienna Corpus Scriptt. Eccl. Latt. (1885) for which this manuscript was not used

Incipit epistula sedulii ad macedonium praesbiterum

Sedulii iuxta fidem catholicam christiani. Inquo sunt haec uersibus heroicis paschalis carminis Libri u.

Sancto ac beatissimo patri macedonoi presbitero sedulius in christo salutem

(p. 1)

Priusquam me uenerabilis pater

Cum [patre et corr.] sancto spiritu per omnia (in cuncta corr.) secula seculorum

(p. 13)

Corrector adds in space

h p usque ad passionem et resurrectionem ascensionemque domini nostri Ihesu Christi

Red capitals

Explicit epistola Sedulii ad Macedonium presbiterum

The second hand

Large initial P with serpent heads and panels of interlaced work: dotted with red and ? purple

Paschales quicumque dapes

(p. 14)

Titles are in small capitals: often in the margin

Smaller initials are sometimes plain Roman in red: some are of the Celtic type, with dots about them

A bit of Celtic ornament drawn in the margin

Upper L. corner in red RA. Each book has an interesting initial

Ends

per tanta uolumina libros

(p. 146)

Explicit liber u.

Incipit carmen (de laud)e christi

A solis ortus cardine

(p. 163)

caelis reddidit

Explicit carmen de (?na)t' domini nostri Ihesu Christi

Incipit Epistolis sancti Seduli ad

Sancto ac beatisimo patri macedonio praes. Sedulius in Christo salutem

(p. 171)

Praecipisti reuerendae mi domine paschalis carminis textum

Ends f. 81r col. 1

cum patre et sancto spiritu per omnia secula seculorum. Amen, beatissime ora pro me pater, finit

Iam dutum salus (saulus) procerum praecepta secutus cum domino patrias uellet praeponere leges

(Verses of Damasus on St Paul, P. L. XIII 379)

Ending

Sancte tuus damasus uoluit triumphos

Cantemus socii domino cantemus honorem

(Hymnus I. p. 155)

At bottom an omission of a couplet is supplied

Ends

Hec sunt uaticiniae sibillae (?de Christo)

In manus infidelium post ea ueniet. dabunt et deo alapas manibus

Et tunc ab inferis regressus ad lucem ueniet primus resurrectionis principio reuocatus ostenso

(Aug. de civ. dei xviii 23 from Lactantius)

Iudicii signum tellus sudore madescit

(Aug. de civ. dei xviii 23)

e caelo ignisque et sulphur(is) annis

Hos predicens uersus sanctus / Agustinus ex libro sybellae adsu / mens in xxuii (blank) dei de greco / translates inseruit. non nulli hanc / sybellam aput grecos / natam ferunt eo tempore quo / romulus romam condidit in iudea / aesaia et osse profetantibus regnante ezechia, alii uero belli troiani temporibus quaedam de Christo / manifesta scribsise

Item in / ... uersos de aduentu Christi

Iudicii signum su / dauit rupada tellus / et saecli ueniet qui / cuncta lauabit secoram / celsus iudex orbemque probabit / etc.

The writing of col. 2 is very faint. Ends

Salpix luctifera caelo tune uoce sonabit / Adfore iam monstrantur erumnasque adfore / Saeculi. loetiferumque chaus monstrauit terra de (?hiscens)

This second version is not among those given by Alexandre (Oracula Sibyllina II 230)

In the earlier part have been a good many Anglo-Saxon glosses, but a large number are erased. After col. 1 of f. 64v glosses of any kind decrease markedly in number

Old English glosses to Sedulius are Cameron C97.2