Winchcombe Chronicle
The Winchcombe Chronicle is a chronicle of the town of Winchcombe from about 1140-5.
The original text was drafted in the 1140s and was then extended to 1181.[1] The chronicle is also sometimes known as the Annals of Winchcombe though it differs from the earlier Winchcombe Annals, produced by the same Abbey.
The Latin chronicle is anonymous but was written in the Benedictine, Winchcombe Abbey (Gloucestershire).
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 margin notes of more recent event.[2]
Today the manuscript is held at the Bodleian Library and is found at BL, Cotton Tiberius E iv, folios 1r-27v.
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. |
- History books about England
- Works by English writers
- English non-fiction literature
- Chronicles
- Documents
- English historians
- English chroniclers
- Benedictine scholars
- Benedictine writers
- 12th-century historians
- Medieval historians
- Cotton Library
- English chronicles
- 11th century in England
- 12th century in England
- 11th-century Latin books
- 12th-century Latin books
- Winchcombe
- English history stubs
- Middle Ages stubs