these chronicles [i.e. of Marianus Scotus] events of about a hundred years, by inserting a brief and valuable summary of many deeds of the Romans and Franks, Germans and other peoples whom he knew [...]." |} Manuscripts The Chronicon survives in five manuscripts (and a fragment on a single leaf): MS 157 (Oxford, Corpus Christi College). The principal manuscript, working copy used by John. MS 502 (Dublin, Trinity College). MS 42 (Lambeth Palace Library). MS Bodley 297 (Oxford, Bodleian Library). MS 92 (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College). In addition, there is the chronicula, a minor chronicle based on the Chronicon proper: MS 503 (Dublin, Trinity College), written by John up to 1123. Sources for English history For the body of material dealing with early English history, John is believed to have used a number of sources, some of which are now lost: unknown version(s) of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, possibly in Latin translation. John may have shared a lost source with William of Malmesbury, whose Gesta regum anglorum includes similar material not found in other works. Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (up to 731) Asser, Vita Ælfredi Hagiographical works on tenth/eleventh-century saints Lives of St Dunstan by author 'B', Adelard and Osbern Byrhtferth, Life of St. Oswald Osbern of Canterbury, Life of St Ælfheah Eadmer of Canterbury, Historia novorum (1066–1122) accounts by contemporaries and local knowledge. Chronicon ex chronicis: editions and translations Darlington, Reginald R. and P. McGurk (eds.), P. McGurk and Jennifer Bray (trs.). The Chronicle of John of Worcester: The Annals from 450–1066. Vol 2. Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford: 1995. McGurk, P. (ed. and tr.). The Chronicle of John of Worcester: The Annals from 1067 to 1140 with The Gloucester Interpolations and The Continuation to 1141. Vol 3. OMT. Oxford, 1998. Thorpe, Benjamin (ed.). Florentii Wigorniensis monachi chronicon ex chronicis. 2 vols. London, 1848-9. Download available from Google Books Stevenson, J. (tr.). Church Historians of England. 8 vols: vol. 2.1. London, 1855. 171–372. Forester, Thomas (tr.). The Chronicle of Florence of Worcester. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. Available from Google Books. Weaver, J. R. H., ed. (1908) The Chronicle of John of Worcester, 1118–1140: being the continuation of the 'Chronicon ex chronicis' of Florence of Worcester. Oxford: Clarendon Press Edition on Archive.org References Further reading Brett, Martin. "John of Worcester and his contemporaries." In The Writing of History in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to R.W. Southern, ed. by R.H.C. Davis and