The Julius Work Calendar is the earliest surviving

calendar A calendar is a system of organizing days. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months and years. A date is the designation of a single and specific day within such a system. A calendar is also a physi ...

in England. It was written on parchment at

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in around 1020, and is a valuable primary source of

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history. After the dissolution of the monasteries it was salvaged by Sir Robert Cotton and kept in the Cotton 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

Online copy
at the British Library website
Entry at the British Library website
11th-century manuscripts {{England-hist-stub