 [ A ] : The Winchester ( or Parker ) Chronicle is the oldest manuscript of the Chronicle that survives . It was begun at Old Minster , Winchester , towards the end of Alfred 's reign . The manuscript begins with a genealogy of Alfred , and the first chronicle entry is for the year 60 BC . The section containing the Chronicle takes up folios 1 – 32 . Unlike the other manuscripts , [ A ] is of early enough composition to show entries dating back to the late 9th century in the hands of different scribes as the entries were made . The first scribe 's hand is dateable to the late 9th or very early 10th century ; his entries cease in late 891 , and the following entries were made at intervals throughout the 10th century by several scribes . The eighth scribe wrote the annals for the years 925 – 955 , and was clearly at Winchester when he wrote them since he adds some material related to events there ; he also uses ceaster , or " city " , to mean Winchester . The manuscript becomes independent of the other recensions after the entry for 975 . The book , which also had a copy of the Laws of Alfred and Ine bound in after the entry for 924 , was transferred to Canterbury some time in the early 11th century , as evidenced by a list of books that Archbishop Parker gave to Corpus Christi . While at Canterbury , some interpolations were made ; this required some <unk> in the manuscript . The additional entries appear to have been taken from a version of the manuscript from which [ E ] descends . The last entry in the vernacular is for 1070 . After this comes the Latin Acta <unk> , which covers church events from 1070 – 1093 . This is followed by a list of popes and the Archbishops of Canterbury to whom they sent the pallium . The manuscript was acquired by Matthew Parker , Archbishop of Canterbury ( 1559 – 1575 ) and master of Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , following the dissolution of the monasteries , and bequeathed to the college on his death . It now forms part of the Parker Library . 
