[Recto] Octobre/ Saint remy.../ [Verso] ...Saint lucam/ vigile.
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Calendar leaf for October.
Origin: Written in northern France in the third quarter of the 15th century, possibly for the use of Amiens; although the calendar is primarily Parisian (with St. Charitine on 5 October and Dionysius in gold on 4 October, for example), it gives the Amiens date of 15 October for St. Wulfram, here called "Elfroy.
With 17th-century Arabic foliation in upper outer corner of the recto, numbering this leaf "17"; since this is the tenth leaf of the calendar, there must have been seven leaves preceding the calendar, perhaps blank flyleaves or added preliminary material.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Acquired in 1988 from Bruce Ferrini.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (object):
Script: Written in a bâtarde script.
Layout: 1 column, 17 lines. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet.
Decoration: Saints' names alternating red and blue, and gold letters for the golden-number (i.e. the first) column and the "red-letter" days. Outer border on both sides of scrolling acanthus, grotesques and spindly vines in gold and colors; two-line KL on recto in gold on red.
Binding: Tipped into a heavy matte and housed in an oversize folder.
