 Of the nine surviving manuscripts , seven are written entirely in Old English ( also known as Anglo @-@ Saxon ) . One , known as the Bilingual Canterbury Epitome , is in Old English with a translation of each annal into Latin . Another , the Peterborough Chronicle , is in Old English except for the last entry , which is in early Middle English . The oldest ( Corp. Chris . MS 173 ) is known as the Winchester Chronicle or the Parker Chronicle ( after Matthew Parker , an Archbishop of Canterbury , who once owned it ) . Six of the manuscripts were printed in an 1861 edition for the Rolls Series by Benjamin Thorpe with the text laid out in columns labelled A to F. Following this convention , the three additional manuscripts are often called [ G ] , [ H ] and [ I ] . The surviving manuscripts are listed below . 
