Johannes, Afflighemensis, active approximately 1100

LC control no.	no 94016449
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Personal name heading	Johannes, Afflighemensis, active approximately 1100 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Johannes, Cotto, active approximately 1100 Afflighemensis, Johannes, active approximately 1100 Cotton, Ioan, active approximately 1100 Cotton, Jean, active approximately 1100 Cotton, Joannes, 11th-12th cent. Cotton, Joannes, active approximately 1100 Cotton, John, active approximately 1100 Cottonius, Johannes, active approximately 1100 Johannes, Affligemensis, active approximately 1100 Cotto, Johannes, active approximately 1100 Johannes, Afflighemensis, fl. ca. 1100 Johannes, de Afflighem, active approximately 1100 Johannes, von Affligem, active approximately 1100 John, of Affligem, active approximately 1100 John, of Afflighem, active approximately 1100 Joannis, Papae, active approximately 1100 Johis, Cotonis, active approximately 1100 Jean, d'Affligem, active approximately 1100 Cottone, Giovanni, active approximately 1100
Beginning date	1100~
Field of activity	Music Music theory
Profession or occupation	Musicologists Monks
Found in	His De musica cum tonario, 1950: t.p. (Johannis Affligemensis) p. 25-26 (surname "Cotto" on the authority of Martin Gerbert (1720-1793); date of birth must be placed in last decades of 11th cent. and the treatise composed between 1100 and 1121) New Grove: v. 9, p. 659-60 (Johannes Afflighemensis (fl.c1100), music theorist, probably from Lorraine or Flanders; identification as Englishman John Cotton remained generally accepted until name Johannes Afflighemensis gained wide acceptance) v. 4, p. 830 (Cotton [Cotton, Cottonius], John, name long accepted as that of the author of an important treatise on music written about 1100) MGG (Johannes von Affligem (Affligemensis), formerly called Johannes Cotto (Cottonius), ca. 1100) Huglo, M. Les tonaires, 1971: p. 299 (Jean Cotton) De musica, 11--: f . 1r (Ioan Cotton) Biographical index of the middle ages, 2008: part 2, p. 601 (Johannes Affligemensis; also J. Cotto or Cottonius; active 1100; musicologist; Afflighem, Belgium) Grove Music Online, accessed September 15, 2021: Johannes Cotto [Johannes Affligemensis] (music theorist, active around St Gallen or in southern Germany; much scholarly argument about his identity beyond the fact that he was a monk who wrote a musical treatise, De musica; identified in scholarship in the 1950s as Johannes Affligemensis based on scant evidence because he may have dedicated the text to the bishop of the monastery in Afflighem, Flanders; there has also been speculation that he was an English monk, John Cotton) <https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.14349> Michel Huglo, "L'auteur du traité de musique dédié à Fulgence d'Affligem," Revue belge de Musicologie, 1977: vol. 31, p. 19 (music theorist who wrote his De musica for Abbot Fulgentius between 1089 and 1122, when Fulgentius was abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Affligem; variants = Joannis Papae; Johis Cotonis; Jean d'Affligem) Hugo Riemann, Storia universal della musica, 1903: p. 123 (Giovanni Cottone) Johannes was a music theorist who wrote his De musica for Abbot Fulgentius between 1089 and 1122, when Fulgentius was abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Affligem.