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Cotton MS Caligula A XIV
- Record Id:
- 040-001102352
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001246.0x0002c5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056015682.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula A XIV
- Title:
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Two Tropers (including the 'Caligula Troper'); a Proser; Homilies from Ælfric's Lives of the Saints; Life of St Mildred
- Scope & Content:
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This composite manuscript contains:
ff. 1r-36v: An illustrated, imperfect troper (a musical collection known as the Cotton Troper or the Caligula Troper) made in the mid-11th century.
ff. 37r-92v: A Troper and a Proser, possibly made at Worcester in the late 12th century.
ff. 93r-130r: Ælfric's Lives of St Martin and St Thomas and a Life of St Mildred.
This manuscript contains later addition:
f. i: An early modern table of contents.
Decoration:
See separate parts.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102352 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Caligula A XIV : Two Tropers (including the 'Caligula Troper'); a Proser; Homilies from Ælfric's Lives of the Saints; Life of… - Contains:
- Cotton MS Caligula A XIV, ff 1–36 : Troper (The ‘Caligula Troper’) (imperfect)
Cotton MS Caligula A XIV, ff 37–92 : Troper; proser (imperfect)
Cotton MS Caligula A XIV, ff 93–130 : Ælfric, Life of St Martin (imperfect); Ælfric, Life of St Thomas; Life of St Mildred (imperfect)
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Cotton MS Caligula A XIV - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0502]/040-001102352
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056015682.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1025
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd quarter of the 11th century - 4th quarter of 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Condition: intact.
Materials: parchment.
Dimensions: 220 x 130 mm (text space varies).
Foliation: ff. i + 130 (f. i is an early modern endleaf, + 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end, + 4 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end).
Binding: British Museum/British Library in-house. Rebound in 1962.
- Custodial History:
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Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: listed as Cotton Caligula A XIV and Cotton Galba A VI in his catalogue Add MS 36682; possibly Cotton Caligula A XIV was moved to the Galba section while the catalogue was being compiled and was therefore recorded twice (see Tite, Early Records (2003), pp. 115-16).
Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton.
Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7. Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Former External References:
- Cotton MS Galba A VI
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, ed. by Claire Breay and Joanna Story (London: The British Library, 2018), no. 127 [exhibition catalogue].
Backhouse, Janet, The Illuminated Page: Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library (London: British Library, 1997), no. 18.
Bell, Nicolas, Music in Medieval Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2001), pp. 22–24.
Doyle, Kathleen and Charlotte Denoël, Medieval Illumination: Manuscript Art in England and France 700-1200 (London: British Library, 2018), also published as Enluminures Médiévales: Chefs-d'oeuvre de la Bibliothèque nationale de France et de la British Library, 700-1200 (Paris : BnF Éditions, 2018), pp. 18, 162.
Frere, Walter Howard (ed.), The Winchester Troper from MSS. of the Xth and XIth Centuries, with other documents illustrating the history of tropes in England and France, Henry Bradshaw Society, 8 (London, 1894), pp. xxx, 101–24.
Gneuss, Helmut, and Michael Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), no. 309, 310.
Hartzell, K. D., Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 containing Music (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006), no. 128, 129.
Heslop, T. A., ‘Manuscript illumination at Worcester, c. 1055–1065: the origins of the Pembroke Lectionary and the Caligula Troper’, in The Cambridge Illuminations: The Conference Papers, ed. by Stella Panayotova (London: Harvey Miller, 2007), pp. 65–75.
Jacobsson, Ritva, ‘Unica in the Cotton Caligula Troper’, in Music in the Medieval English Liturgy: Plainsong & Mediæval Music Society Centennial Essays, ed. by Susan Rankin and David Hiley (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), pp. 11–45.
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 138.
Ker, N. R. (ed.), Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books 2nd edn (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 35.
Planchart, Alejandro Enrique, The Repertory of Tropes at Winchester, 2 vols (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1977), I, pp. 43–50; II, pp. 21–29.
Rickert, Margaret, Painting in Britain: The Middle Ages (London: 1954), pp. 55-56.
Rollason, D. W., The Mildrith Legend: A Study in Early Medieval Hagiography in England (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1982), pp. 29–31.
Temple, Elzbieta, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, 900-1066 (London: Harvey Miller, 1976), no. 97.
Teviotdale, E. C., ‘An episode in the medieval afterlife of the Caligula Troper’, in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage, ed. by Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine M. Treharne (Aldershot, 1998), pp. 219–26.
Teviotdale, E. C., ‘The “Hereford Troper” and Hereford’, in Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology at Hereford, ed. by David Whitehead, The British Archaeological Association, Conference Proceedings, 15 ([n.p.], 1995), pp. 75–81.
Teviotdale, E. C., ‘The making of the Cotton Troper’, in England in the Eleventh Century: Proceedings of the 1990 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. by Carola Hicks (Stamford: Paul Watkins, 1992), pp. 301–16.
Teviotdale, Elizabeth C., ‘Some thoughts on the place of origin of the Cotton Troper’, in Cantus Planus: Papers Read at the Fourth Meeting, Pécs, Hungary, 3–8 September 1990 (Budapest, 1992), pp. 407–12.
Teviotdale, E. C., ‘Tropers’, in The Liturgical Books of Anglo-Saxon England, ed. by Richard W. Pfaff, Old English Newsletter, Subsidia, 23 (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995), pp. 42–43.
Tite, Colin, The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton's Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), pp. 115-16.
Wilcox, Jonathan, ‘The audience of Ælfric’s Lives of Saints and the face of Cotton Caligula A. XIV, fols. 93–130’, in Beatus Vir: Studies in Early English and Norse Manuscripts in memory of Phillip Pulsiano, ed. by A. N. Doane and Kirsten Wolf (Tempe, Arizona: ACMRS Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006), pp. 228–63.
- Exhibitions:
- Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, British Library, London, 19 October 2018 - 19 February 2019
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.