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Byrhtferth's Northumbrian chronicle : an edition and translation of the Old English and Latin annals

Title
Byrhtferth's Northumbrian chronicle : an edition and translation of the Old English and Latin annals / edited and translated by Cyril Hart.
Author
Byrhtferth, approximately 970-
Publication
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Hart, C. R. (Cyril Roy)
  • Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge). Library. Manuscript. 139, fol. 50-75
Description
cviii, 269 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Uniform Title
Northumbrian chronicle
Alternative Title
Northumbrian chronicle
Subject
  • Anglo-Saxons > Kings and rulers
  • Anglo-Saxons > Early works to 1800
  • Anglo-Saxons > England > Historiography
  • English prose literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Criticism, Textual
  • Manuscripts, English (Old) > Facsimiles
  • Manuscripts, Latin > Facsimilies
  • Great Britain > History > Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 > Sources
  • Northumbria (Kingdom) > History > Sources
Genre/Form
Facsimiles.
Note
  • Work consists of a section culled from Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge) Manuscript 139, known as the Historia regum, that the author has identified as the work of Byrhtferth of Ramsey. The editor/translator has selected the title Northumbrian chronicle to refer to this portion of the manuscript. The Northumbrian chronicle is identified as item 7, folios 50v-75r, or item 7 sections 1 to 5, from the larger item 7 folios 50v-129r of Manuscript 139.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Language (note)
  • Texts on chronicle in Latin and Old English, with modern English translations; introduction and commentary in modern English.
ISBN
0773457518
LCCN
  • 2006046168
  • 9780773457515
OCLC
  • ocm68221562
  • SCSB-14010288
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library