Calendar and Computus (fragment).

Description

Title: Calendar and Computus (fragment).
Published / Created: [between 1290 and 1299].
Publication Place: Germany
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a calendar and computus, possibly made for a Cistercian monastery; includes a calendar for April and May and computus tables for determining the dates of Septuagesima, Quadragesima, Easter, Rogation, and Pentecost
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis).
Decoration: on fol. 1 columns 3 and 4 are written in red, as is the slightly enlarged "A" indicating a Sunday on every seventh line in column 2; the enlarged abbreviations for the words "kalendae", "nonae", and "idus" are also red; the script in the columns of the computus tables alternates black and red; punctuated with the punctus.
Provenance: The bifolium was used as a wrapper for another volume.
Extent: ff. 1-2 : 156 x 100 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Cistercians.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Calendar
Church calendar
Subjects: Cistercians
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Calendar
Church calendar > Early works to 1800
Germany > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Calendar and Computus (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.