COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Document Collection
Record
Identifier:
exwsms145_bk
Manuscript Identifier:
MS 145
Title:
Calendar from a Book of Hours
Incipit:
KL. Janvier. La circoncision
Origin Date:
between 1450 and 1499
Origin Location:
Bayeux (France)
Description:
Fifteenth-century, French calendar excerpted from a Book of Hours.
Provenance:
Produced in France, Normandy -- probably in Bayeux. Calendar includes Saint Regnobert, Bishop of Bayeux. A pilgrim badge impression on the verso of folio 2: four badges, two larger and two smaller ones in a vertical row -- they were attached with needle and thread to the page preceding the calendar. The practice of attaching the badges to the pages of devotional books flourished in the regions of the duchy of Burgundy at the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth. Two inscriptions on folio 3r: Bàieux in ink along the top and 898 followed by a flourish in ink. Purchased by Special Collections, Waldo Library from the Mackus Company, Akron Ohio, June, 2008.
Explicit:
Saint Seuestre.
Secundo Folio:
KL frevier
Extent:
14 leaves
Subject:
Catholic Church--Liturgy--Calendar
Subject:
Manuscripts, Medieval--France
Subject:
Manuscripts, French--Michigan--Kalamazoo
Language:
fre
Dimensions:
168 x 118 mm
Material:
parchment
Collation:
16 +2 inserted before 1, 26
Binding:
Excised from a larger manuscript.
Decoration Description:
1-line initials in gold on a ground of red or blue; 2-line initial "KL" in gold at the beginning of each month on a ground of blue and red; inner margin borders next to initial KL, foliate motif derived from a depiction of the acanthus plant containing occasional vines, flowers, and fruit.
Description of Hands:
Written in gothic textualis formata.
Additions and Marginalia:
Later inscriptions identifying the manuscript.
Is Part Of:
Manuscript 145, Western Michigan University Special Collections
Is Part Of:
Medieval Document Collection
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Date-Issued:
2015
Type:
Text
Format:
image/jp2
Is Referenced By:
Musée de Cluny, and Denis Bruna. Ensiegnes de pèlerinage et enseignes profanes. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1996.
Rights Statement:
Rights Status:
No Copyright - United States
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by Special Collections at Zhang Legacy Collections Center, Western Michigan University.