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Cotton MS Julius A X, ff 44–175
- Record Id:
- 041-001101631
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x000083
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060794135.0x000001
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Julius A X, ff 44–175
- Title:
- Old English Martyrology (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain one of the earliest non-fragmentary copies of the Old English Martyrology. The text begins and ends imperfectly, and there are gaps in the text between 25 January-24 February, 13 March-18 March, and 24 June-2 July. Leaves are missing after ff. 59, 65, and 113. This text was copied in the late 10th or early 11th century. The folios were rearranged by Sir Frederic Madden in 1858 to conform to their textual order(see note on vi verso) . Previously, the order of the folios (in terms of their current folio numbers) had been ff. 123-28, 60-89, 98-105, 90-97, 106-13, 122, 129, 115-20, 114, 121.
Decoration: initials in black and faded red; initials in red and in green (f. 130r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001101629
041-001101631 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Julius A X : Life and Miracles of St Oswine; Old English Martyrology (imperfect)
Cotton MS Julius A X, ff 44–175 : Old English Martyrology (imperfect) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0010]/040-001101629[0002]/041-001101631
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Julius A X
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Julius_A_X (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0975
- End Date:
- 1024
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 10th century-1st quarter of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (? Worcester or ? York, although these localisations are uncertain; see Stokes, English Vernacular (2014), pp. 111, 152).
Provenance:
12th century alterations and added words (ff. 153v, 159r, 160v).
16th century marginal additions of place names and drawings (for example, ff. 50v-51r).
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts.
- Publications:
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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. 338.
Herzfeld, George (ed.), An Old English Martyrology, Early English Text Society, 116 (London, 1900), p. xi.
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 161.
Mertens, Andre (ed. and trans.), The Old English Lives of St Martin of Tours, ed. by Andre Mertens (Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2017), pp. 91-92, 145, 169-73.
Rauer, Christine (ed. and trans.), The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013) [includes edition and translation].
Roberts, Jane, A Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings Up to 1500 (London: The British Library, 2005), pp. 72-73.
Stokes, Peter A., English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut circa 990-1035 (D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, 2014), pp. 111-12, 127, 152-53.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)