Winchcombe Annals
Appearance
The Winchcombe Annals, sometimes known as the Later Winchcombe Annals, are a Latin chronicle compiled c. 1240 by an anonymous monk at the Benedictine abbey, Winchcombe Abbey.[1]
The manuscript is damaged and only the portion from 1049 to 1232 remain although it was a longer document. The source material up to 1181 is from the Winchcombe Chronicle and from thereon from another annal. The manuscript also holds pictorial representation of a sun dial,[2] and the twelve winds of Aristotle.[3]
It is currently in the British Library at Cotton MS Faustina B I, fol. 12r–29v.
References
[edit]- ^ Hayward, Paul Antony, “Later Winchcombe Annals”, in: Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, Edited by: Graeme Dunphy, Cristian Bratu.
- ^ Jaś Elsner, Comparativism in Art History (Routledge, 2017).
- ^ The Twelve Winds, In 'The Winchcombe Chronicle', The British Library 26 March 2009.
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