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Metrical calendar of Hampson

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Latin metrical calendar consisting of 365 verses, with one hexametrical verse for each day of the year, primarily in commemoration of saints or church feasts. A striking feature is the inclusion of ten Irish saints, fourteen church feasts of Irish origin, six northern French and Flemish saints and the obits of King Alfred and his wife Ealhswith (d. 902). While much is unknown about the origin and authorship of the poem, it is usually thought to have been produced in England in the early part of the 10th century, probably during the reign of King Edward the Elder.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

London, British Library, MS Cotton Galba A xviii

Earliest manuscript. The text is found as an addition.

ff. 3r–14v

MS

London, British Library, MS Cotton Galba A xviii

f. 3r–f. 14v

Text

London, British Library, MS Cotton Julius A vi

ff. 3r–8v

Text

London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius B v/1

ff. 3r–8v

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 27

ff. 2r–7v

Sources

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[ed.] McGurk, Patrick, “The metrical calendar of Hampson: a new edition”, Analecta Bollandiana 104:1–2 (1986): 79–125.

Secondary sources (select)

Gretsch, Mechthild, “The Junius Psalter gloss: its historical and cultural context”, Anglo-Saxon England 29 (2000): 85–121.

Bishop, Edmund, Liturgica historia: papers on the liturgy and religious life of the Western church, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1918.

253–256