2 - Metrical Calendar of York
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 June 2021
Summary
The following are the only two English manuscripts preserving the text of the Metrical Calendar of York, which I shall call V and Tr respectively:
V : British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian B.vi, fol. 104r–v (s. ix in);
Tr : Cambridge, Trinity College Library O.2.24, fols. 87v–9r (s. xii in).
The following edition is based chiefly on V with emendations and additions based on Tr. As regards the first fifteen lines, however, they are based on Tr as these lines are missing from V. Apart from the two manuscripts, I also consulted the editions included in the ePL and Wilmart, ‘Un témoin anglo-saxon du calendrier métrique d’York’, to which I shall refer as PL and W respectively. The words in square brackets are those added based on Tr, while emendations are marked by italics. Abbreviations are expanded without notice. Word division, punctuation and capitalisation follow modern convention. Line numbers are inserted on the left hand side of the page, while folio numbers are inserted on the right hand side. The end of a manuscript page is indicated in the text by |.
[Prima dies Iani est qua circumciditur agnus. Tr fol. 88r
Octauas idus colitur theophania Christi.
Deserti quartas primus capit accola Paulus.
Sex decimas Antonius obtinet aeque kalendas.
Tres decimas Sebastianus tenuisse refertur.
Bis senas meritis mundo fulgentibus Agnes,
Martyrio undecimas et Anastasius memoratur.
Prima dies Februi est iam qua patitur Policarpus,
Et quartas nonas Christus templo offerebatur.
Nonarumque diem festum celebramus Agathae,
A tque Ualentini sedenis sorte kalendis.
The following is an English translation based on the edited text. The numbers in the brackets on the left hand side of the page reveal the date of each feast.
Sic Iuliana et bis septenas ornat honore,
Ac senas merito Mathias uirtute dicabat.
Hinc idus Martis quartas Gregorius aurat.
Cuthbertus denas tenuit ternasque kalendas,]
Bis senis sanctus post quem sequitur Benedictus. V fol. 104r
Octauis merito gaudet conceptio Christi.
Atque Georgius hinc euectus ad astra uolauit
Carnifices nonis Maiae uincente kalendis.
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- The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium) , pp. 138 - 153Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2015