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The medieval calendar : locating time in the Middle Ages

Title
The medieval calendar : locating time in the Middle Ages / Roger S. Wieck.
Author
Wieck, Roger S.
Publication
  • New York : The Morgan Library & Museum, in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., 2017.
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
Pierpont Morgan Library, organizer, host institution.
Description
xii, 95 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles; 28 cm
Summary
"The intricacies of the medieval calendar are examined in this sumptuously illustrated volume, featuring many of the finest examples from The Morgan Library's unparalleled collection. The lucid and concise text explains the complexities of Vigils, octaves, Egyptian Days, Golden Numbers, Dominical Letters, movable feasts and the key role played by the saints days, including the colours in which they are written as well as their rankings and gradings. A thirteenth-century Breviary made for a French queen to use in the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris is fully reproduced, transcribed and analysed to reveal its true meaning. The author shares his step-by-step method to localise a medieval calendar and discover its use. Readers will thus learn how to assess a calendar's roster of liturgical feasts as a key to revealing the place where it was destined to be used."--
Alternative Title
  • Locating time in the Middle Ages
  • Now and forever: the art of medieval time
  • Art of medieval time
Subjects
Note
  • "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Now and Forever: The Art of Medieval Time, at the Morgan Library & Museum from January 26 to April 29, 2018"--Title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-93) and index.
Call Number
JFF 18-204
ISBN
  • 9781785511073
  • 1785511076
LCCN
2017027219
OCLC
982650648
Author
Wieck, Roger S., author.
Title
The medieval calendar : locating time in the Middle Ages / Roger S. Wieck.
Publisher
New York : The Morgan Library & Museum, in association with Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-93) and index.
Added Author
Pierpont Morgan Library, organizer, host institution.
Research Call Number
JFF 18-204
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