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)., and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Cistercians.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval, Calendar, and Church calendar
Manuscript on paper, containing a miscellany on the topic of prognostication and the occult. Contains: Ma'rifat taqwim, Knowing the calendar; Fal nameh, A treatise for fortune-telling; and Nasi Ibn Muhammad Ibn Haydar Rammal Shirazi's Work on branches of the occult
Description:
In Persian., Layout: 1 column of around 12 lines., Decoration: Rubrication., Binding: Modern black gold-tooled binding., Modern pencil foliation., Contains some tables and diagrams., and Original text block appears to have been cut and surrounded by more modern paper, perhaps to remove original marginal annotations(?). New marginal annotations are added on top of the new marginal space.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Persian, Persian language and literature, Calendar, Fortune-telling, and Occultism
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single hand, of a set of planetary tables, followed by a two-page note of instructions for their use, which begins: "For the declaracion of this p[re]cedente tabule." The included feast days suggest an origin in southern England, perhaps London
Description:
In Middle English., Layout: tables in red and brown ink., Script: English bookhand., Decoration: gold initials., and Binding: modern half-calf.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Topic):
Astronomy, Calendar, English prose literature, and Manuscripts, Medieval
