Editing the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Patrick W. Conner, West Virginia University

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A Collaborative Edition. Volume 5: MS. C. Edited by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001. Pp. cxxii + 150. $75.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A Collaborative Edition. Volume 8: MS. F. Edited by Peter S. Baker. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000. Pp. cxiv + 158. $75.

Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe's edition of MS. C and Peter S. Baker's edition of MS. F represent the most recent contributions to this important, ambitious project, ASC-CE. Initiated by David Dumville and Simon Keynes in 1983, eight tomes of a projected twenty-three have been published so far. I list them in order of publication: MS. B, ed. Simon Taylor (vol. 4, 1983); The Annals of St Neots with Vita Prima Sancti Neoti, ed. David Dumville and Michael Lapidge (vol. 17, 1985); MS. A, ed. Janet M. Bately (vol. 3, 1986); MS. F: A Facsimile Edition, ed. David Dumville (vol. 1, 1995); The Abingdon Chronicle, ed. Patrick W. Conner (vol. 10, 1996); MS. D, ed. G. P. Cubbin (vol. 6, 1996), and the two under review. Although we cannot now see the end of the series (it was originally envisioned to have been completed in the last century), most Anglo-Saxonists, I suspect, hope that it will continue to supply individual editions of the manuscripts related to or derived from the chronicle tradition of pre-Conquest England.