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Cotton MS Caligula A VII, ff 176-178
- Record Id:
- 041-003420896
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100063463640.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Caligula A VII, ff 176-178
- Title:
- Æcerbot charm
- Scope & Content:
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These folios include a charm for fields and to ensure fruitful land (Æcerbot), added in the 1st half of the 11th century. It is primarily in Old English, with some Latin phrases.
Contents:
ff. 176r-178r: a charm for fields and to ensure fruitful land known as Æcerbot.
[f. 178v is blank].
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001102323
041-003420896 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Caligula A VII : Heliand and a charm
Cotton MS Caligula A VII, ff 176-178 : Æcerbot charm - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0495]/040-001102323[0004]/041-003420896
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- Part of Cotton MS Caligula A VII
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1049
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Southern England.
- 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. 308.
Jolly, Karen, Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), pp. 6-8 [includes transcription and translation].
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), no. 137 (p. 172).
Priebsch, R., The Heliand Manuscript, Cotton Caligula A. VII, in the British Museum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925).
Roberts, Jane, A Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings Up to 1500 (London: The British Library, 2005), p. 59.
Stokes, Peter A., English Vernacular Minuscule from Æthelred to Cnut circa 990-1035 (D.S. Brewer: Cambridge, 2014), p. 160.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Science
- Places:
- Southern England