Gives nothing for 1200: its original text ends in 1163 and the few additions stop before William the Lion's last decades. Useful only for the earlier Scottish kings, the founding of the Scottish bishoprics and abbeys, and the reigns of David I and Malcolm IV that shaped the kingdom of 1200.
About this source
- Title
- Chronicon coenobii Sanctae Crucis Edinburgensis
- Author
- Anonymous (canons of Holyrood, Edinburgh)
- Written
- about 1150 to 1170, with later additions
- Language
- Latin
- Covers
- to 1163, with scattered later entries to 1189
- Kind
- Chronicle
The National Library of Scotland link opens on an inner page of the book; use its navigation for the whole volume. The 1938 edition is the standard text.
Where to read it
Editions
- R. Pitcairn (ed.), Chronicon coenobii Sanctae Crucis Edinburgensis, Bannatyne Club (1828)
- M. O. Anderson (ed.), A Scottish Chronicle known as the Chronicle of Holyrood, Scottish History Society (1938), not free (not freely online)