Girdle calendar or almanac according to John Somer's Kalendarium — c. 1406 (?); England | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Title

Girdle calendar or almanac according to John Somer's Kalendarium — c. 1406 (?); England

Shelfmark

MS. Ash. Rolls 55

Associated place

Warwick

Place of origin

England

Date

c. 1406 (?)

Language

Latin

Girdle calendar or almanac according to John Somer's Kalendarium

(fol. 1) Tables for locating the Sunday letter, golden number, and date of the movable feasts

(fols. 2–5) Calendars for January - December, three months to a sheet. Each month shows: (1) in the left panel, (a) the number of the day, (b) hours and minutes from midnight to sunrise (medietas noctis) and from noon to sunset (medietas diei), and (c) the year in the Metonic cycle and the time of prime (lunar conjunction) in hours and minutes, for the first cycle (here beginning 1406); (2) in the central panel, a liturgical calendar with golder number, dominical letter, kalends, ides and nones, and feasts; (3) in the right panel, the year in the Metonic cycle and time of prime (lunar conjunction) in hours and minutes, for the second and third cycles (i.e. those beginning 1425 and 1444).

Form

faltbuch

Support

parchment

Physical extent

5 folios (size of a full sheet fully opened) (size of a fully folded sheet)

Hands

Textualis

Decoration

Rubrication

Binding

Girdle book; no cover.

Acquisition

Purchased.

Provenance

Presumably made around 1406, since that is the beginning of the first Metonic cycle included, and not after 1425.

Probably owned in Warwickshire or the West Midlands: added saints in the calendar include: David and Chad (added 15th century); Oswald (with translation), Edith (of Wilton), and the dedication of the church of Warwick (9 July) (added 15th century, second half).

Elias Ashmole: formerly MS. Ashmole 7. Missing from the Ashmole collection by 1830.

Lot 90 in an unidentified 19th-century sale (cutting pasted to front)

Sir Thomas Phillipps: MS. 29728

Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot. 39.

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