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Medieval Time: Calendars

Library and internet materials for research on aspects of Medieval time and the study of chronology.

Overview

Intended as an overview of available secondary works on calendars. Grouped into the following categories:

Surveys
Ancient Calendars
Christian Calendars
Liturgical Calendars
Jewish Calendars

Surveys

Mapping Time: the calendar and its history by E. G. Richards
Call Number: CE11 .R5 1998
The Ordering of Time: from the ancient computus to the modern computer by Arno Borst; Andrew Winnard (Translator)
Call Number: CE6 .B6713 1993
The Medieval Calendar: locating time in the Middle Ages by Roger Wieck
Call Number: CE57 .W49 2017
ISBN: 1785511076
Publication Date: 2017
The intricacies of the medieval calendar are examined in this sumptuously illustrated volume, featuring many of the finest examples from The Morgan Library's unparalleled collection. The lucid and concise text explains the complexities of Vigils, octaves, Egyptian Days, Golden Numbers, Dominical Letters, movable feasts and the key role played by the saints days, including the colours in which they are written as well as their rankings and gradings.

Ancient Calendars

Caesar's Calendar: ancient time and the beginnings of history by Denis Feeney
Call Number: CE46 .F44 2007
On Roman Time: the codex-calendar of 354 and the rhythms of urban life in late antiquity by Michele R. Salzman
Call Number: CE46 .S25 1990
Calendars in Antiquity by Sacha Stern
ISBN: 0199589445
Studies in Eusebian and Post-Eusebian Chronography by Richard W. Burgess; Witold Witakowski
Call Number: BR160.E55 B87 1999
ISBN: 9783515075305
Publication Date: 1999
The first study in this volume provides a Greek text and translation of the final forty-two years of Eusebius' chronicle, the first such attempt at reconstruction since 1606, while the second presents the first ever Greek text and translation of an important lost continuation of Eusebius' chronicle, written in Antioch in 350.

Jewish Calendars

Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls by James C. VanderKam
Call Number: BM487 .V25 1998
Calendar and Community: a history of the Jewish calendar, second century BCE-tenth century CE by Sacha Stern
Call Number: CE35 .S855 2001
Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe by Elisheva Carlebach
ISBN: 0674052544

Saints Calendars

Butler's lives of the saints by Paul Burns (Editor)
Call Number: BX4654 .B8 1995
The Liber usualis : with introduction and rubrics in English by Benedictines of Solesmes (Editors)
Call Number: M2148.1.T8 L42 1938

Komputistische Sammelhandschrift

Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1449, f. 17v

Christian Calendars

Calendar page for May, 1st quarter of the 15th century
British Library MS Harley 2332, f. 5v

Gregorian reform of the calendar : proceedings of the Vatican Conference to commemorate its 400th anniversary, 1582-1982 by G.V. Coyne, M.A. Hoskin and O. Pedersen (Editors)
Call Number: QB29 .G73 1983
The calendar pages of medieval service books : an introductory note for art historians by F. P. Pickering
Call Number: CE55 .P5 1980
Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
The Christian calendar and the Gregorian reform by Peter Archer
Call Number: CE73 .A7
"Perpetual yearly calendar" in envelope mounted on cover.
Der Streit um die Zeit : Zeitmessung, Kalenderreform, Gegenzeit, Endzeit by Markwart Herzog (Editor)
Call Number: CE6 .S77 2002
Die karolingische Kalenderreform by Arno Borst
Call Number: DD3 .M83 Bd.46
Der Streit um den karolingischen Kalender by Arno Borst
Call Number: DD3 .M86 v.36
"Ut reiecto paschali errore veritati insistamus" : Nikolaus von Kues und seine Konzilsschrift De reparatione kalendarii by Tom Müller
Call Number: BX4705.N58 C8 Bd.17

Liturgical Calendars

Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 481-751 by Yitzhak Hen
Call Number: DC64 .H46 1995
"The Growth of Liturgy and the church year" by Brian Spinks
Call Number: BR200 .C66 2007
In Cambridge history of Christianity, volume 2
Hymn introits for the liturgical year : the origin and early development of the Latin texts by Christoph Tietze
Call Number: ML3186 .T54 2005
Aspects of the liturgical year in Cappadocia (325-430) by Jill Burnett Comings
Call Number: BV30 .C597 2005
Origins of the Liturgical Year by Thomas J. Talley
Call Number: BV30 .T35 1991
The liturgical year by Abbot Guéranger ; Dom Laurence Shepherd (Translator)
Call Number: BX1970 .G85 1948
15 volumes
Le calendrier parisien à la fin du moyen âge : d'après le bréviaire et les livres d'heures by Paul Perdrizet
Call Number: BX1973 .P4
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Die ältesten Kalendarien aus Monte Cassino by E. A. Loew
Call Number: PA2801 .Q4 Bd. 3, Hft. 3
Mittlalterliche Kirchenfeste und Kalendarien in Bayern by Anton Lechner
Call Number: BV30 .L43 1891