Calendar, tables, Hymnal and Canticles (BL Cotton MS Julius A VI)

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Colloquial name(s): none, it contains a calendar, computistical texts and tables, a Hymnal and Canticles

Official name(s): British Library, Cotton MS Julius A VI

Date: predominantly between the 1st half and the middle of the 11th Century (source)

Origin: possibly Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury, England (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

This manuscript contains several parts, produced over an approximately 150 year spread (source):

• ff. 2r-17v: calendar & computistical tables, early 11th Century, possibly produced at Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury.
• ff. 20r-89v: Hymnal and Canticles, middle of the 11th Century, possibly at Christ Church Cathedral, Canterbury, possibly in the same scriptorium as BL Cotton MS Vespasian D XII.
• ff. 90r-v: Sequence and song beginning 'Ad mensam philosophie sitientes currite', last quarter of 11th Century.
• ff. 18r-19r: added hymns, 12th Century.
• ff. 20v: title '[H]hympnar glo.' added, 12th Century.

The manuscript is decorated with capitals in red, gold, green and blue; drawings of the Zodiac signs; gold crosses with the letters OG and EN; and miniatures depicting the labours of the months (source).