Franciscan Calendar

Description

Title: Franciscan Calendar
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1499].
Publication Place: Southwestern Germany
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of a Franciscan calendar. The computisical data include the length of the solar and lunar months and other astronomical information. However, there is no Roman calendar. The most significant feasts are marked in red
Description: Script: Copied by a single hand in Gothica Semihybrida Libraria/Currens.
Decoration: Red rubrics; red versals; red KL-monograms.
Binding: The cover is a parchment bifolium from a 15th century (Southern German) manuscript containing a Latin calendar in black and red; “Calendarium antiquum” is written on the spine in a 17th century(?) hand.
In Latin.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. 12 : 280 x 200 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Franciscans.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Religious calendars
Subjects: Franciscans
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Religious calendars
Germany > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Franciscan Calendar. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.