Julius Work Calendar
{{Short description|Earliest surviving calendar in England}}
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The Julius Work Calendar is the earliest surviving calendar in England. It was written on parchment at Canterbury Cathedral in around 1020, and is a valuable primary source of Anglo-Saxon history. After the dissolution of the monasteries it was salvaged by Sir Robert Cotton and kept in the Cotton Library; the "Julius" in its name is simply a reference to where it was stored in Cotton's library. Since 2000 it has been stored in the British Museum, catalogued as Cotton MS Julius A VI.
References
- Lacey, R. & Danziger, D. (1999) The Year 1000: What Life was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, Little Brown & Co.
External links
- [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Cotton_MS_Julius_A_VI Online copy] at the British Library website
- [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&ct=display&fn=search&doc=IAMS040-001101608&indx=1&recIds=IAMS040-001101608&recIdxs=0&elementId=0&renderMode=poppedOut&displayMode=full&frbrVersion=&dscnt=2&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BL%29&frbg=&tab=local&dstmp=1551553915193&srt=rank&mode=Basic&dum=true&fromLogin=true&vl(freeText0)=Cotton%20MS%20Julius%20A%20VI&vid=IAMS_VU2 Entry at the British Library website]
Category:11th-century manuscripts
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