London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A. xiv

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Caligula A. xiv

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Medieval Provenance

General Information

Ker

138

Gnuess/Lapidge

310

Summary

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.

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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_caligula_a_xiv_f…

Manuscript Items
  1. Itemfols 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

     

  2. Itemfols 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

     

  3. Itemfols 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


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Additional Information

Administration Information

Described by Owen Roberson with the assistance of Johanna Green with reference to published scholarship.

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History

Provenance

Unknown

Bibliography

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