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Cotton MS Caligula A XIV, ff 93–130
- Record Id:
- 041-001102355
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001630.0x00016b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100056547574.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula A XIV, ff 93–130
- Title:
- Ælfric, Life of St Martin (imperfect); Ælfric, Life of St Thomas; Life of St Mildred (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
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These folios contain Old English hagiographical works copied in the mid-11th century.
Contents:
ff. 93r–111v, 125r–130v: Ælfric (b. 955, d. 1010), Life of St Martin (imperfect).
ff. 111v–121v: Ælfric, Life of St Thomas.
ff.121v–124v: Life of St Mildred (imperfect).
Decoration:
Initials in red and green. Numbers in red. Larger initials with decoration (see ff. 111v-112r, 120v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102352
041-001102355 - 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 93–130 : Ælfric, Life of St Martin (imperfect); Ælfric, Life of St Thomas; Life of St Mildred (imperfect) - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0502]/040-001102352[0003]/041-001102355
- 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:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1050
- End Date:
- 1074
- Date Range:
- 2nd to 3rd quarter of 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Possibly written by a single scribe working in England (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 173.)
Thomas Allen (b. 1540?, d. 1632), mathematician and antiquary: inscribed with his number '67' (f. 93), number 67 in his catalogue of 1622 (his catalogue now Bodleian MS Wood F 26).
- 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. 310.
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 138.
Mertens, Andre (ed.), The Old English Lives of St Martin of Tours (Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2017), pp. 137, 41, 145, 261–389.
Rollason, D. W., The Mildrith Legend: A Study in Early Medieval Hagiography in England (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1982), pp. 29–31.
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.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Ælfric of Eynsham, Abbot of Eynsham, c 955-c 1010,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118377445,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/262214286 - Subjects:
- Hagiography
- Places:
- England