Place and date of composition
Historians agree that the Common Stock of the Chronicle (sometimes also known as the Early English Annals) was edited into its present form … See more

Of the nine surviving manuscripts, seven are written entirely in Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon). One, known as the Bilingual … See more

The manuscripts are all thought to derive from a common original, but the connections between the texts are more complex than simple inheritance via copying. The … See more

The three main Anglo-Norman historians, John of Worcester, William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon, each had a copy of the Chronicle, … See more

After the original Chronicle was compiled, copies were made and distributed to various monasteries. Additional copies were made, for further distribution or to replace lost manuscripts, and some copies were updated independently of each other. It is copies of this … See more

The process of manual copying introduced accidental errors in dates; such errors were sometimes compounded in the chain of transmission. The whole of the Common Stock has a chronological dislocation of two years for the period 756–845 due to two years being … See more

Winchester Chronicle
[A]: The Winchester (or Parker) Chronicle is the oldest manuscript of the Chronicle that survives. It was … See more