These manuscripts collectively are known as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Almost all of the material in the chronicle is in the form of annals, by year the earliest are dated at 60 B.C.E., and historical material follows up to the year in which the chronicle was written, at which point contemporary records begin. The oldest seems to have been begun towards the end of Alfred's reign, while the most recent was written at Peterborough Abbey after a fire at the monastery there in 1116. Nine manuscripts survive in whole or in part, though not all are of equal historical value, and not one of them is the original version. In one case, the chronicle was still being actively updated in 1154. Multiple manuscript copies were made and distributed to monasteries across England, and were independently updated. The annals were created late in the ninth century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English narrating the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The initial page of the Peterborough Chronicle.
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