The Anglo-Saxon manuscript survives in four main different recensions, plus other less important recensions. The most important is the Winchester Manuscript (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS. 173, ff. 1v–32r. This is traditionally abbreviated as A or as Ā. The text was at one time owned by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury 1559–75, and is according often referred to as “The Parker Chronicle”. It is the only Chronicle manuscript in which the language has not been brought into conformity with the late West Saxon literary standard. The manuscript was transferred from Winchester to Canterbury, perhaps because Canterbury’s own copy of the Chronicle had been lost or destroyed.