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E. Gibson, ed., Chronicon Saxonicum (1692)

Edmund Gibson, ed., Chronicon Saxonicum ex MSS Codicibus nunc primum integrum edidit, ac Latinum fecit (Oxford, 1692). 

This is the second oldest edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle with a Latin translation, its editio princeps being included in Abraham Wheelocke's Historiæ ecclesiasticæ gentis Anglorum liber V, etc. published in 1643. While Wheelocke's edition is based chiefly on the version in Cotton Otho B.vi, which was mostly destroyed in the fire in 1731, Gibson conflated the following texts: Wheelocke's edition, the E-text preserved in Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 636 (aka Peterborough Chronicle), and transcripts of Cotton Tiberius A.vi (i.e. the B-text) and Cotton Domitian A.viii (i.e. the F-text) (Greenfield and Robinson, p. 346). 



The editor, Edmund Gibson (1669-1748) was Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of London, and this volume was his second book. According to Taylor in his article on Gibson in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Gibson studied at Queen's College, Oxford, where he was 'a prominent member of the distinguished group of Oxford Anglo-Saxonists, centred on Queen's College, and including William Nicolson, White Kennett, and Edward Thwaites'. Members of this group were generally on good terms  with George Hickes, who is said to have given some advice to Gibson when he was editing the Chronicle. Gibson's edition remained the standard edition of the Chronicle until James Ingram's edition, The Saxon Chronicle, was published in 1823. 

My copy is in a contemporary limp vellum binding, on whose spine, a contemporary hand writes 'Gibson, cronicon saxonicu'. There are no inscriptions in it and its former owners are not known. 

For Gibson's life and work, see Stephen Taylor, 'Gibson, Edmund' in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. For the 'distinguished group of Oxford Anglo-Saxonists' mentioned above, see David Douglas, English Scholars 1660-1730, 2nd ed. (London, 1951), pp. 64-71. For the information about this and other editions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, see Stanley B. Greenfield and Fred C. Robinson, A Bibliography of Publications on Old English Literature to the End of 1972 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980), p. 346. 

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