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(fols. 1r–69r) Annals of Winchester; (fols. 70r–87r) Chronicle of Richard of Devizes — Hyde (Hida, formerly New Minster, Winchester), Hampshire. Benedictine abbey of Holy Trinity, St Mary the Virgin, and St Peter.


Provenance: Hyde (Hida, formerly New Minster, Winchester), Hampshire. Benedictine abbey of Holy Trinity, St Mary the Virgin, and St Peter.
Location: British Library, London
Shelfmark: Cotton Domitian xiii fols. 1–87 (and ? fols. 88–127)
Author/Title: (fols. 1r–69r) Annals of Winchester; (fols. 70r–87r) Chronicle of Richard of Devizes
Type of evidence: c: evidence from locally specific contents, including obits, scribbles, etc.
Notes on evidence:

Ascribed by H.R. Luard, who published the Annals in Annales monastici, RS 2, to St Swithin's, Winchester. For the attribution to Hyde see Eng. Hist. Rev. 49 (1934), pp. 85ff.

Fols. 70r–87r are said to be in the same hand as CCCC 339, vol. 1: Howlettt considered both autograph of Richard Devizes.

Date: s. xii/xiii