Work consists of a section culled from Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge) Manuscript 139, known as the Historia regum, that the author has identified as the work of Byrhtferth of Ramsey. The editor/translator has selected the title Northumbrian chronicle to refer to this portion of the manuscript. The Northumbrian chronicle is identified as item 7, folios 50v-75r, or item 7 sections 1 to 5, from the larger item 7 folios 50v-129r of Manuscript 139.
Byrhtferth's Northumbrian chronicle : an edition and translation of the Old English and Latin annals by Byrhtferth. ISBN 9780773457515. Published by Edwin Mellen in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.