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Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 22-25

Record Id:

041-001607484

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-001101582

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001990.0x000331

LARK:

SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100060369223.0x000003

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 22-25

Title:

Lines on Egyptian days; a fragment of Ælfric, De Temporibus; rules for finding Septuagesima, Lent and Easter; a note on epacts and concurrents

Scope & Content:

These folios contain Old English texts on calculating days and times, a fragment of a 'Winchester computus' (see Chardonnens, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, p. 36):

f. 22r: A text on prayers and liturgy to be said in the morning, beginning 'þonne þu on morgen...' (edited in Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 292).

f. 22r-v: A short text on Egyptian days.

ff. 22v-24v: A fragment of Ælfric, De Temporibus (About the Times);

f. 25r: Rules for finding Septuagesima, Lent and Easter.

f. 25r: A note on epacts and concurrents (measurements of lunar cycles used for calculating the date of Easter).

Decoration: Initials in black. Sketches of circles in red (f. 25r). Latin text in green, written in a circle (f. 25v). Due to fire damage the top is illegible, but part of it reads '...que lex disiungit vel que concordia iungit quando coequantur...'

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-001101582
040-001103012
041-001607484

Is part of:

Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII : Peter Abelard, Versus ad Astralabium Filium Suum; Dares Phrygius, De Bello Troiano (incomplete); a chronicle of…

Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII, ff 22-25 : Lines on Egyptian days; a fragment of Ælfric, De Temporibus; rules for finding Septuagesima, Lent and Easter;…

Hierarchy:

032-001101582[0836]/040-001103012[0006]/041-001607484

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

Part of Cotton MS Vitellius C VIII

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English, Old
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1000

End Date:

1049

Date Range:

1st half of the 11th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Script: Anglo-Saxon minuscule.

Custodial History:

Origin: ?Winchester, Southeastern England.

? Winchester: the text for finding Septuagesima, etc is very similar to that in Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII, which has been linked to Winchester, and this manuscript may have been used as the model for the text in Cotton MS Vitellius E XVIII (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 292).

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:

Liturgy
Science

Places:

Winchester, England