London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A. xiv
Caligula A. xiv
General Information
138
310
A composite manuscript which contains music and hymns in Latin and Saints' Lives in English. The Lives of Saints is contained in the second part of the manuscript on fols 93-130v. Ker (1957) notes one hand, s. ximed. Origin unknown, belonged to Thomas Allen.
Digital Surrogate
http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_caligula_a_xiv_f…
Item: fols 125-30v, 93r-111v
Title (B.1.3.30): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: Saint Martin
Incipit: (fol. 125r) [...] ond þa bærmen sona stedefæste stodon sƿylce his astifode ƿæron
Explicit: (fol. 111v) mid ƿundrum se ðe on ecnysse rixað ælmihtig ƿealdend AMEN.
Text Language: English
Note: Bound out of order. One leaf is missing between fol. 130v, which ends with 'he sa.t to þam casere ond hi sƿiðe blyðe wæron' and fol. 93r which begins with 'for his ingange ond nolde hine ƿylcumian ac ðær ƿearð godes miht'.
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, Art. 1
Skeat 1881-1900, II, pp. 242-, ll. 374-
Wilcox 2000
Item: fols 111v-21v
Title (B.1.3.34): Ælfric, Third Series of Homilies [Lives of Saints]: Passion of Saint Thomas the Apostle
Rubric (initial): (fol. 111v) XX.KALENDARIS IANUARIAS PASSIO SANCTI THOME APOSTOLI DUBITABAM DIUTRANSFERRE ANGLICE PASSIONEM
Incipit: (fol. 111v) ÆFTER ÐÆS HÆLENDES ÐROǷUNGE OND ÆRIST of deaðe
Explicit: (fol. 121v) ælmihtigan to lofe reðe on ecnysse rixað riclice mihtig AMEN.
Text Language: English
Other versions of the text: According to Ker, the text is 'very like that in no. 162'.
Note: Bound out of order
Bibliography:
Ker 1957, Art. 2
Skeat 1881-1900, II, pp. 398-, ll, p. 1-
Wilcox 2000
Item: fols 121v-24v
Title (B.3.3.26): Anonymous Homilies, Homilies for Specified Occasions, Sanctorale: Saint Mildred
Rubric (initial): (fol. 121v) III. IDUS IULII. NATALE SANCTAE MILDRYÐE uirginis
Incipit: (fol. 121v) On drihtnes naman SANCTUS augustinus gefulƿihte æþelbryht cantƿara cyning
Explicit: (fol. 124v) ond ða sona æfter þyssum ƿordum se eorðe tohlad [...]
Text Language: English
Note: Bound out of order
Bibliography:
Cockayne 1864-66, I, p. 551
Ker 1957, Art. 3
Liebermann 1889, pp. 1-9
Rollason,1982, pp. 29-31
Wilcox, 2000
Object Description
Form Codex
Hand Description
Additional Information
Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Johanna Green with reference to published scholarship.
Digital surrogate: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_caligula_a_xiv_f093r (accessed 18 July 2018)
History
Unknown
Cockayne, Oswald, ed., Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, Being a Collection of Documents for the Most Part Never before Printed, Illustrating the History of Science in this Country before the Norman Conquest, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi Scriptores, 35, 3 vols (London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1864-66; repr. Wiesbaden: Kraus, 1965)
Ker, N. R., Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; repr. 1990), item 138
Liebermann, Felix, Die Heiligen Englands Angelsächsisch und Lateinisch (Hannover: Hahn, 1889)
Rollason, David, The Mildrith Legend: A Study in Early Medieval Hagiography in England (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1982)
Skeat, W. W., ed., Ælfric’s Lives of Saints, EETS, OS 76, 82, 94, 114 (London and Oxford: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1881-1900; repr. as 2 vols, 1966)
Wilcox, Jonathan, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in Microfiche Facsimile, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000), vol. 8
Owen Roberson