Winchcombe Chronicle: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Revision as of 03:21, 20 February 2018

The Winchcombe Chronicle also sometimes known as the [Annals of Winchcombe] is a chronicle of the town of Winchcombe from about 1140-5. the Winchcombe Chronicle was extended to 1181. ^[1] The Latin chronicle is anonymous but was written in the Benedictine, Winchcombe Abbey (Gloucestershire). Today the manuscript is held at the Bodlein Libraryand is found at BL, Cotton Tiberius E iv, folios 1r-27v.

The manuscript is in two parts. The first, the work of a single scribe, is a world history from creation to 1122 which takes much of its matterial from John of Worcester's Chronica chronicarum.

The addendum contained more recent material. The manuscript also has numerous margine notes of more recent event.^[2]

References

^ Hayward, Paul Antony.,The Winchcombe and Coventry Chronicles: Hitherto Unnoticed Witnesses to the Work of John of Worcester,The Medieval Review 12.02.12.
^ Antonia Gransden, Legends, Tradition and History in Medieval England(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010) p233.

This article related to the history of England is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This Middle Ages-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] Hayward, Paul Antony.,The Winchcombe and Coventry Chronicles: Hitherto Unnoticed Witnesses to the Work of John of Worcester,The Medieval Review 12.02.12.

[2] Antonia Gransden, Legends, Tradition and History in Medieval England(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010) p233.

[1]

[2]

@@ Line 3: / Line 3: @@
 Today the manuscript is held at the [[Bodlein Library]]and is found at BL, Cotton Tiberius E iv, folios 1r-27v.
-The manuscript is in two parts. The first, the work of a single scribe, is a world history from creation to 1122 which takes much of its matterial from  [[John of Worcester]]'s Chronica chronicarum.
+The [[manuscript]] is in two parts. The first, the work of a single scribe, is a world history from creation to 1122 which takes much of its matterial from  [[John of Worcester]]'s Chronica chronicarum.
-The addendum contained more recent material. The manuscript also has numerous [[gloss|margine notes]] of more recent event.<ref>Antonia Gransden, Legends, Tradition and History in Medieval England([[Bloomsbury Publishing]], 2010) [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Lu7eBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA233&lpg=PA233&dq=Winchcombe+Chronicle&source=bl&ots=p1TDiliWFM&sig=2MdzVQ-KYC5hIXKKvIdxPO4jLUw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_98rJuLPZAhXEVbwKHdq9DGoQ6AEIVzAJ#v=onepage&q=Winchcombe%20Chronicle&f=false  p233].</ref>
+The [[addendum]] contained more recent material. The manuscript also has numerous [[gloss|margine notes]] of more recent event.<ref>Antonia Gransden, Legends, Tradition and History in Medieval England([[Bloomsbury Publishing]], 2010) [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Lu7eBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA233&lpg=PA233&dq=Winchcombe+Chronicle&source=bl&ots=p1TDiliWFM&sig=2MdzVQ-KYC5hIXKKvIdxPO4jLUw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_98rJuLPZAhXEVbwKHdq9DGoQ6AEIVzAJ#v=onepage&q=Winchcombe%20Chronicle&f=false  p233].</ref>
 ==References==
 {{reflist}}