90 handwritten pp. Copenhagen, Royal Library, Ny Kongelig Samling 513, the manuscript long known as "Thorkelin A" (usually without an accent mark over the "i"): a transcription of Beowulf from British Library Cotton MS Vitellius A.xv, commissioned by Grímur Jónsson Thorkelín and carried out by an unnamed copyist believed to have been James Matthews of the British Museum (for this identification, see Kiernan in Scholarship, below). The manuscript contains Old English and a Latin note.

• Kevin S. Kiernan, The Thorkelin Transcripts of Beowulf, Anglistica 25 (Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1986).

Original manuscript not seen. This record is based on facsimile images as presented in Kemp Malone, ed., The Thorkelin Transcripts of Beowulf in Facsimile, Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile 1 (Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1951).