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Calendar

Month of December

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Odense, Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, Herlufsholm 186.7

Charlotte Epple, Fragmentarium, 2026 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Calendar
Shelfmarks Herlufsholm 186.7
Page/Folio Reference Outer side of covers
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Strasbourg
Script, Hands

Main text in Northern textualis formata, with more recent notes in a cursive hand below the calendar entries.

Original Condition

Number of Columns 1

Current Condition

Extent 1 partial bifolium
Dimensions 171 x 451 mm
More about the Current Condition

The text on the outward-facing side of the cover was washed or scraped off after the binding was put together, since the text on the turn ins is undamaged. The red ink of some rubrics withstood the removal process. On the back cover, the text on the other side of the parchment (i.e. the side that is glued to the board) shines through. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red rubrics.

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Saints and feasts for the month of December
    • Content Description

      The legible text on the back cover mentions the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, as well as those of the virgin saints Attala and Barbara, meaning that the fragmented leaf contained the month of December. Their feast days are the 8th (Immaculate Conception), 3rd (Attala), and 4th of December (Barbara).
    • Back cover v
    • Remarks

      The side of the leaf glued to the cover lists Attala and Barbara, whereas the Immaculate Conception is on the outer side.

History

Origin

The mention of the locally worshipped saint Attala (679-741) places the fragment in Strasbourg, where she was abbess of the Benedictine convent of St Stephen's. 
Provenance

The original codex the fragment belonged to was probably cut up and reused locally by a Strasbourg bookbinder/stationer, since the host volume was printed in Strasbourg as well. 

Host Volume

Title Rabus, Ludwig: Historien. Der heyligen außerwoelten Gottes zeügen bekennern und martyrern so zu disen unsern letsten zeytten darinnen der allmechtig ewig Gott seine Kirchen mit der reynen lehr seines gnadenreychen Evangeliums vaetterlichen heymgesucht hat hin und wider in allen landen worden seind. Der achte theyl.
Date of Origin/Publication 1558
Place of Origin/Publication [Strasbourg, bey Samuel Emmel]
Shelfmark Herlufsholm 186.7
Remarks

The host volume is part of the Herlufsholm Collection, now held at the University Library of Southern Denmark. It originates from Herlufsholm boarding school, founded 1565, and bears the school's ex libris and stamp. It is not known how Herlufsholm acquired the book. A provenance note on the title page is blacked out, but possibly begins with the name "Christian" and ends with "Egmondey" (?). There appears to be a remnant of an old spine label or mark containing the number 3, further indicating that this volume - like most of the school's books - was part of a private library before it was given to Herlufsholm. 

Late sixteenth or early seventeenth century laced-case binding over cardboard boards, three endbands with visible lace attachment. It at some point had laces to hold the book block closed, but these are no longer there. Restored by bookbinder Axel Pedersen (A.P. Kons.) in 1976 according to a stamp on the back endleaf.

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