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Add MS 40165 A, ff 6r-7r
- Record Id:
- 041-002353502
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002091890
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000002002.0x0001a6
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 40165 A, ff 6r-7r
- Title:
- Old English Martyrology fragment
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
The Anglo-Saxon Martyrology: the part for 2nd to 10th May, incipit "On þone aefteran [daeg þaes] monðes" (p. 70, 1. 10), explicit: "þaes martyres tid sancti Gor[dianes]" (p. 80,11. 13-14).
(References to An Old English Martyrology, pp. 70-80).
There are two other manuscripts of parts of this text in the British Library: Additional MS 23211 (fragment, 9th century) and Cotton MS. Julius A. x, f. 44 (10th century). A later copy (late 11th century) is inserted in the margins of the Parker manuscript of Bede's Ecclesiastical History, Corpus Christi College Cambridge, MS. 41.
Decoration: Initials and line-fillings in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002091890
040-002091891
041-002353502 - Is part of:
- Add MS 40165 A-B : Commentaries and theological treatises
Add MS 40165 A : Cyprian epistles and Old English Martyrology fragments
Add MS 40165 A, ff 6r-7r : Old English Martyrology fragment - Hierarchy:
- 032-002091890[0001]/040-002091891[0002]/041-002353502
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 40165 A-B
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- A parchment fragment consisting of 2 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_40165_a (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
English, Old - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0875
- End Date:
- 0899
- Date Range:
- 875-899
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment fragments.
Dimensions: 185 x 145mm (text space 175 x 125).
Script: Anglo-Saxon Minuscule.
- Publications:
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ff. 6-7:
The Oldest English Texts, ed. by Henry Sweet (London: Early English Text Society, I885) p. 177.
An Old English Martyrology, ed. by G. Herzfeld (London: Early English Text Society, 1900), pp. 70-80.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1921-1925 (London: British Museum, 1950), pp. 64-65.
Cecilia Sisam, ‘An Early Fragment of the Old English Martyrology', Review of English Studies, 4 (1953), 209-20 [with a transcription of the text].
N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), no. 132.
Das altenglische Martyrologium, ed. by G. Kotzor, 2 vols (Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1981), I, pp. 109-17.
Jennifer Morrish, 'Dated and Datable Manuscripts Copied in England during the Ninth Century: A Preliminary List', Mediaeval Studies, 50 (1988), 512-38 (p. 535).
Karen Quinn and Kenneth Quinn, A Manual of Old English Prose (New York: Garland, 1990), no. 604.
A. N. Doane, 'London, British Library, Add. 40165 A' in Saints' Lives, Martyrologies, and Bilingual 'Rule of St. Benedict', British Library, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile,19 (Tempe: Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2010), pp. 5-13.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)