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Cotton MS Caligula A XIV, ff 37–92
- Record Id:
- 041-001102354
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x00016a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056547574.0x000002
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula A XIV, ff 37–92
- Title:
- Troper; proser (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain music and tropes possibly copied in the late 12th century.
Contents:
ff. 37r–42v: A troper.
ff. 43r-92v: A proser (imperfect).
Decoration:
Initials in red, blue, and gold, some with red and blue decoration. Music throughout, on red lines. Unfinished initial (f. 41r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102352
041-001102354 - 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…
Cotton MS Caligula A XIV, ff 37–92 : Troper; proser (imperfect) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0502]/040-001102352[0002]/041-001102354
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Caligula A XIV
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: ?Worcester, Midlands, England.
Provenance:
? Worcester Cathedral Priory: see Teviotdale, 'Some Thoughts' (1992), pp. 407-12.
? Christ Church Cathedral Priory, Canterbury: attributed to the library there, although this attribution has been doubted (see Ker, Medieval Libraries (1964), p. 35).
? 13th-century: bound with troper on ff. 1-36. Both sections were annotated with a lead point (see, for example, f. 67v. On the dating of the hand, see Teviotdale, 'An Episode' (1998), p. 220.) Marginal drawings and notes (f. 92r).
- Publications:
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Hartzell, K. D., Catalogue of Manuscripts Written or Owned in England up to 1200 containing Music (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006), no. 129.
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.
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, 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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)