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5 - List of Anglo-Saxon Calendars

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The following information, as well as the classification numbers, of the twenty-seven extant Anglo-Saxon calendars is based chiefly on Rushforth, Saints in English Kalendars before A.D. 1100, and partly on Gneuss, Handlist. The following list contains: the manuscript and folio numbers; date; probable place of origin; catalogue number in Ker, Catalogue, Gneuss, Handlist and/or Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Litanies; editions available if any. If the item is edited in Wormald, English Kalendars before A.D. 1100, its classification number in the edition is given with the editor's name, as in Wormald 3. A brief comment regarding the relationship with other calendars may be added at the end of each item, based on the aforementioned book(s) by Rushforth and/or Wormald.

  • 1. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, latin 10837, 34v–40r; early eighth century; Echternach; Gneuss 897; Wilson, The Calendar of St Willibrord.

  • 2. Hauzenstein near Regensburg, Gräflich Walderdorffsche Bibliothek, s.n.; mid eighth century; Northumbria; Gneuss 791; Siffrin, ‘Das Walderdorffer Kalenderfragment’. It is a fragment consisting of the entries for July to October.

  • 3. Munich, Hauptstaatsarchiv, Raritäten-Selekt 108; eighth century; Northumbria or some Continental house with Insular connections; Gneuss 855.5; Lowe, Codices Latini Antiquiores, vol. 9, p. 1236, Bauerreis, ‘Ein angelsächsisches Kalenderfragment’, and Gamber, Das Bonifatius- Sakramentar. It is a fragment consisting of the entries for 3–20 May and 4–24 June.

  • 4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 63 (S.C. 1664), 40r–45v; c. 867? or 892?; Northumbria? (manuscript c. 1000), probably at the Old Minster, Winchester; Ker 319, Gneuss 611; Wormald 1.

  • 5. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 27 (S.C. 5139), 2r–7v; 920s; Winchester or Canterbury?; Ker 335, Gneuss 641; Dumville, Liturgy and the Ecclesiastical History, pp. 1–38. It may share a source with two New Minster calendars, i.e., calendars 14 and 23, while it is similar to calendar 9 in the choice of high-grade feasts.

  • 6. S alisbury, Cathedral Library, 150, 3r–8v; 969–987; Sherborne? or Shaftesbury?; Ker 379, Gneuss 740, Lapidge XLIII; Wormald 2. Wormald links the text of this calendar with that of no. 16.

  • 7. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 579 (S.C. 2675), 39r–44v; 979–987; Glastonbury? or Canterbury?; Ker 315, Gneuss 585, Lapidge XXIX; Wormald 4; Warren, The Leofric Missal, pp. 23–34; Orchard, The Leofric Missal II, pp. 57–68. According to Wormald, the text of this calendar is at the centre of a group consisting of calendars 7, 9, 13 and 27.

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Print publication year: 2015

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