CHD Calendars from Illuminated Manuscripts

Calendars from Illuminated Manuscripts in Danish Collections
With comparative material for the Tutorial on Books of Hours

[Calendars without links are available on request for research, together with a large number of calendars on the CHD databases, including more than 80 recordings of the Paris type]

General

Introduction (Coming up)
The Ancient Gregorian and Gelasian Kalendarium
Empty Calendarform (to fill in with your own notes)

Commercial Kalendars

Johannes de Gamundia (German single leaf woodcut calendar 1478-1479) with Alphabetical Index
Universal composite calendar (Hore ad usum Romanum, Gillet Hardouin c.1512, CMB Perg.26b 8°)
Universal composite calendar (Hore ad usum Romanum c.1530, NkS 1259 8°) with Alphabetical Index
Bruges c.1440-1450 Minimal Kalendar KB Additamenta 65 8°

The Composite Paris Calendar 1400-1500

Introduction Paris Calendar Studies
Variants in the Paris Calendar 1330-1530
Alphabetical list of variants Part 1 A-L
Alphabetical list of variants Part 2 M-Z
Calendarform: Typical Paris Calendar (Coming up)
Calendar in Les Petites Heures de Jean de Berry:
Introduction and CHD Guide (Transcript with comparative table)

The Amiens Calendar 1380-1530
- Characteristics in the calendars from Amiens (Month of July)
The Rouen Calendar 1430-1530
- Characteristics in the calendars from Rouen
The Sarum Calendar
- The Copenhagen Psalter (England c.1170)
The Utrecht Calendar 1430-1500
- The Full Utrecht Calendar in Latin and Dutch
- Variants in the Utrecht Calendar (Coming up)

CISIOJANUS from 1430 (Hainaut Region) Cph GkS 79 2° SPECULUM HUMANAE SALVATIONIS
The Cisiojanus in various Printed Books of Hours

Some Liturgical Calenders

Paris c.1380 Missale Parisiense Cph Thott 146 2°
Bayeux 1501 (Breviarium Baiocense) Cph NkS 133 4°
Cambrai 1495 (Missale Cameracense)
Coutances c.1500 (Breviarium) Cph NkS 36 8°
Ghent c.1300 (Psalterium) Cph NkS 41 8°
Tournai (15th Cent. - Cambrai, Bibl.Mun. Ms.A104)

Calenders from Books of Hours

French Books of Hours

Use of Paris

Paris c.1400 Cph Thott 113 8°
Paris c.1420-1440 The Artz Hours (Use of Angers/Le Mans)
Paris c.1450 Cph NkS 3758 4°
Paris c.1460 Cph NkS 131 4°
Paris c.1470-80 NkS 28 8° (with alphabetical index)
Paris c.1495 Additamenta 64 8° (with alphabetical index)
Paris 1490 Heures à l'usage de Rome: Cph Inc. 2020 (T-Group)
Paris c.1500 Cph NkS 34 8°

Use of Rouen

Rouen c.1450 Cph KB Thott 543 4°
Rouen c.1500 Paris calendar adapted for Rouen (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Buchanan e.3.)
Rouen c.1510 Cph KB GkS 1609 4°

Use of Coutances

Coutances c.1450 Cph Thott 545 4°
Coutances c.1510 Cph Thott 548 4°

Bourges

Bourges Calendar c.1450 (11 leaves in private collection)

Bretagne

Composite calendar in Latin Brandeis Hours (Use of Rennes, c.1420-30)
Composite calendar in Latin from Thott 114 8° (Use of Vannes, dioc. Nantes, c.1460)

Evreux

Evreux Calendar c.1300 Cph Thott 534 4°

Limoges

Limoges Calendar Hore ad usum Romanum c.1475-1485 (See Dismembered Hours)

Use of Tours

Tours c.1478 Cph KB GkS 1610 4°
Tours c.1490 Cph KB NkS 35 8°

Flemish Books of Hours

Bruges c.1440/50 Additamenta 65 8° (Minimal Calendar)
Bruges c.1470 Cph NkS 27c 8° (with alphabetical index)
Bruges c.1470 Black Book of Hours (Vienna Cod.1856) with Alphabetical Index
Ghent c.1487 Carmelite Calendar for Gent (Arend de Keysere)
Hainaut (Valenciennes?) c.1490-1500 Cph Thott 542 4° with Alphabetical Index
Mechelen 1505
Flanders c.1520-1530 Cph GkS 1605 Psalterium with Alphabetical Index
Ypres (Ypern) CWRU Book of Hours (Use of Rome c.1470-80, with Facsimile)

Liège

Tongeren (c.1480-1500) Kalendar in Haag KB Ms. 75 G 2 (pdf-file)

Dutch Books of Hours

Hours in Dutch, Utrecht c.1430 Cph GkS 3446
Hours in Dutch, Utrecht c.1430/40 Cph NkS 43 8°
Hours in Latin Cph GkS 3445 8° (Diocese Utrecht, Delft c.1442/1444, with alphabetical index)
Hours in Dutch Cph Thott 551 4° (Haarlem? Dioc. Utrecht c.1470/80)
Hours in Dutch Cph Thott 550 4° (Northern Netherlands, Dioc.Utrecht c.1500)

Sarum Books of Hours

Sarum Hours, Paris, Pro Antonio Verard c.1503-1505 Cph CMB Perg.19