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and MS AM 249q fol. VII, a fragment of the late fifteenth century. In
the following transcription of these calendars, the golden numbers, the
dominical letters, and the Roman datings have been left out; for these
have been substituted the days of the months in Arabic numerals.
Entries in colour have been italicized.
Both calendars have a pronounced martyrological character, and
both relate to Usuard’s martyrology, which he finished in 865. Besides,
there are entries from the Hieronymian Martyrology, and from the
martyrologies of Rabanus Maurus and Ado. References to these and to
other sources have been added in a second column of our transcription
and in our comment, with use of the following abbreviations:
Us = Le Martyrologe d’Usuard. Ed. J. Dubois = Subsidia hagiographica, no. 40
(Bruxelles 1965).
Auctaria = the additions to Usuard’s martyrology, found in J. B. du Sollier’s edition of
Usuard = PL 123, pp. 453 - in finem; PL 124, pp. 10-860.
MH = Martyrologium Hieronymianum. Text edition = Acta Sanctorum Novembris,
II, 1 (Bruxelles 1894); comment = Acta sanctorum Novembris, II, 2 (Bruxelles 1931).
Ado: see H. Quentin, Les Martyrologes historiques (Paris 1908), pp. 465 sqq.
Rabanus = Rabani Mauri Martyrologium = PL 110, pp. 1121-1188; new edition by
John McCulloh = Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio medievalis, 44 (Tumholti
1979).
Grotefend, H., Zeitrechnung, op. cit., 2/2 (Hannover 1898), for the late-medieval
German and Scandinavian diocesan calendars.
Cologne = G. Zilliken, Der Kolner Pestkalender = Bonner Jahrbiicher, 119 (Bonn
1910), pp. 13-157.
Colbaz = Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz MS theol. lat. 149 fol., ff.
27v-33r. Calendar of the Archsee of Lund c. 1150. See KLNM 2, pp. 577-78, article
‘Colbaz årbogen’.
MS AM 249b fol., Jf. 1-6
According to Åmi Magnusson’s attached note, this calendar was
formerly prefixed to a psalter, which had at some time belonged to the
Church of Skålholt. Kålund dated it vaguely in the thirteenth century
(see Kålund, AM 1, p. 226); M. M. Lårusson assigns it to about
1200 (see KLNM 8, p. 106). This earlier date would seem to be
warranted by the use of the tailed e which became rare after 1200. See
Plate 67, with reproduction of f. (2)v, containing the month of April.
The psalter which belonged together with AM 249b fol. is lost
except for seven leaves, found in Copenhagen and in Reykjavik, of
which ff. (1-5) are nearly whole as regards the written space, while ff.
(6-7) are fragments of two leaves.