London. British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A XIV

Source

The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project

Library

London. British Library

Shelfmark

• British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A XIV

Biblissima authority file

• https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q202757

Language

• Latin
• Old English

Title

• Two Tropers (including the 'Caligula Troper'); a Proser; Homilies from Ælfric's Lives of the Saints; Life of St Mildred

Agent

• Preferred form

  • Aelfric (0955?-1020?)

  Original form

  • Ælfric of Eynsham, c 955-c 1010, Abbot of Eynsham

  Other form

  • Aelfric (0955?-1020?)
  • Aelfricus Eyneshamensis
  • Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
  • Ælfric of Eynsham
  • Ælfric OSB
  • þlfric OSB
  • #198;lfric OSB
  • Ælfric
  • IÆlfric OSB
  • Īlfric OSB
  • see more

  Biblissima portal

  • https://portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/43093/pdata95c14b013bc4089aa1368e6f3599203aea1eb265

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q409

Description

• This composite manuscript contains:ff. 1r-36v: An illustrated, imperfect troper (a musical collection known as the Cotton Troper or the Caligula Troper) made in the mid-11th century. ff. 37r-92v: A Troper and a Proser, possibly made at Worcester in the late 12th century. ff. 93r-130r: Ælfric's Lives of St Martin and St Thomas and a Life of St Mildred. This manuscript contains later addition:f. i: An early modern table of contents. Decoration:See separate parts.

Place

• Preferred form

  • England, Southwestern (United Kingdom)

  Original form

  • Southwestern England

  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q83977

• Preferred form

  • England (United Kingdom)

  Original form

  • England

  Other form

  • Angleterre
  • Angleterre (?)
  • Angleterre.
  • Angleterre ?
  • Anglaterra
  • Inglaterra
  • Engeland
  • Angleterre (Salisbury ?)
  • Anglaterra (Salisbury?)
  • Inglaterra (Salisbury?)
  • England (Salisbury?)
  • [Oxford?]
  • [England]
  • England, Norwich?
  • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's Abbey?
  • England, Cornwall?
  • England, St. Albans?
  • England, North?
  • England, York?
  • England, Witham?
  • England, Winchester or St. Albans
  • England, Reading or Leominster
  • England, Cirencester?
  • England, Sherborne?
  • England, Worcester?
  • England, Bury St. Edmunds?
  • England, Tewkesbury?
  • England, East Anglia?
  • England, Peterborough?
  • England, Mercia?
  • England, Canterbury, Christ Church?
  • England, Canterbury, St. Augustine's?
  • England, Winchester?
  • England, Oxford?
  • Flanders (possibly executed in England)
  • England and Netherlands
  • England, Canterbury?
  • England, West Midlands?
  • England, London?
  • England, Crowland?
  • England, Wessex?
  • England, Reading?
  • England, Northeast?
  • England, Southeast?
  • England, Ely?
  • England, Winchester or Hereford?
  • England, Salisbury?
  • England, Oxford or Salisbury
  • German (but made in England)
  • England, South East (?)
  • England. Peterborough (?) or Lincoln (?)
  • Hereford?, England
  • England, Durham ?
  • England, Durham?
  • England, probably Durham
  • England, Oxford (?)
  • England, possibly Oxford
  • England (?Oxford)
  • England, Durham (?)
  • England, London/Westminster
  • Unknown, possibly London and Cambridge
  • Royal Chancery, London; Cambridge
  • Engeland (?)
  • England (II)
  • I. England
  • [Engeland]
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  Biblissima authority file

  • https://data.biblissima.fr/entity/Q27376

Rights

• Public domain in most countries other than the UK

License

• https://www.bl.uk/help/how-to-reuse-images-of-unpublished-manuscripts

Digitisation

• http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100056015682.0x000001

Manifest URL

• https://api.bl.uk/metadata/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056015682.0x000001/manifest.json