Accession number
MS M.1119
Object title
Calendar and Breviary (MS M.1119).
Created
France, ca. 1500.
Binding
Unbound, enclosed in 20th century maroon cloth boxcase signed by Max J. Adjarian, Malibu, California; fit into 1/2 morocco marbled paper slipcase, stamped in gold on spine: Calendarium cum tabulis sermones MS France c. 1500.
Credit line
Purchased from Richard E. Priest, 1973.
Description
45 leaves (1 column, 24 lines (fols. 2-26v) and 35 lines (fols. 28-44v), unbound : vellum, ill. ; 132 x 90 mm
Provenance
Bernard Rosenthal, San Francisco, California; purchased from Rosenthal by Richard E. Priest in 1973; Priest MS 4; purchased from Priest in 1994.
Notes
Ms. calendar and breviary; written in France after 1479, probably ca. 1500.
There is evidence that the first text may have been copied from the Kalendarium Perpetuum printed at Geneva in 1479: on fol. 12v the scribe writes "...tabula superius impressa"; description of this incunable is given by Polain (B) 2407 (= Klebs 239.ivar.)
Calendar is ruled in purple ink, the remainder ruled in brown ink. Second text looks as though it has been cut down (script is very close to edge of vellum). First two folios are entirely loose from rest of MS.
Decoration: 2 gold initials on squared maroon ground; 4 folios of eclipse tables with 80 circular diagrams in which the eclipsed portion is shaded.
There is evidence that the first text may have been copied from the Kalendarium Perpetuum printed at Geneva in 1479: on fol. 12v the scribe writes "...tabula superius impressa"; description of this incunable is given by Polain (B) 2407 (= Klebs 239.ivar.)
Calendar is ruled in purple ink, the remainder ruled in brown ink. Second text looks as though it has been cut down (script is very close to edge of vellum). First two folios are entirely loose from rest of MS.
Decoration: 2 gold initials on squared maroon ground; 4 folios of eclipse tables with 80 circular diagrams in which the eclipsed portion is shaded.
Contents
fols. 3r-8v: Calendar, each month with health rules written at the bottom-- fol. 9r-9v: Hoc praesens kalendarium cum tabulis sequentibus as simplicium sacerdotum clericoruque instructionem...claro compendio melius ut potui in unum collegi-- fols. 10r-12v: Tabula bene correcta per C annos-- fols. 12v-22r: Further explanatory texts and tables-- fols. 23r-26v: Tables of lunar and solar eclipses with circular diagrams, the first pertaining to 1479, the last to 1551, columns divided into Dies/Menses/hore/minuta/aspectus eclipsis-- fol. 28r: Domine labia mea aperies-- fol. 44v: ... credo domine deus...et vitam etiam (?) suam tantum (text ends here, fragmentary)-- fol.45r: Blank.
Script
bastarda
Language
Latin
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