Easter Table/Table of Moveable Feasts (fragment)

Accession number:

MS M.1120

Title:

Created:

Germany, 1496.

Binding:

Matted.

Credit:

Purchase; Richard E. Priest; 1973.

Description:

1 leaf (table of 16 columns, 27 1/2 rows) : vellum, ill. ; 410 x 168 mm

Provenance:

L'Art Ancien, S.A., Zurich; purchased from L'Art Ancien by Richard E. Priest in 1976; Priest MS 5; purchased from Priest in 1994.

Notes:

Single leaf; written and illuminated in Germany in 1496 (dated at foot of table).
From left to right, the columns inform the following: 1) Golden Numbers; 2) Dominical letters = used to determine the date of Easter; 3) & 4) = the weeks and days from Christmas to Esto mihi (Quinquagesima); 5) = Septuagesima; 6) = Quadragesima; 7) = Easter; 8) = Rogation; 9) = Pentecost; 10) = Corpus Christi; 11) & 12) = Weeks and days from Pentecost to John the Baptist; 13) Weeks from Pentecost to Advent; 14) = Advent; 15) & 16) = Weeks and days from Advent to Christmas.
The table lacks headings and 7 1/2 rows out of a possible 35.
Some traces of the leaf having been used in a binding: 3 horizontal folds, 6 small holes, some browning.
Decoration: 2 circular diagrams showing lunar and solar circles with personifications of the sun and moon painted in colors.

Script:

textura

Language:

German

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