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Chronicle of the kings of Alba
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Short Latin chronicle of Scottish history, the earliest of its kind, which is preserved in a single manuscript (BNF lat. 4162, or the Poppleton MS). The core of the text, which takes its structure from a regnal list, covers the period between the reigns of Cináed mac Ailpín (d. 858) and Cináed mac Maíl Choluim (d. 995), who appears to have been still alive when his reign was added. The form in which this text has come down, however, is in a later redaction, possibly of the 12th century, surviving in a 14th-century manuscript.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 4126
incipit: Kinadius igitur filius Alpini primus Scottorum rexit feliciter istam annis xui. Pictauiam No heading.
f. 28va.30–
Sources
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Secondary sources (select)
Woolf, Alex, From Pictland to Alba, 789–1070, The New Edinburgh History of Scotland, 2, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
88–93 (introduction), 94–102, 104–109, 112–113, 115–123, etc.
Dumville, David N., “The chronicle of the kings of Alba”, in: Simon Taylor (ed.), Kings, clerics and chronicles in Scotland, 500–1297: essays in honour of Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. 73–86.
Hudson, Benjamin T., “The language of the Scottish Chronicle and its European context”, Scottish Gaelic Studies 18 (1998): 57–73.
