. The church year and kalendar. t festival absent, or, as is frequently thecase, inserted in a later handwriting, the strongpresumption is raised that the original Kalendarbelongs to a time before the establishment of thefestival. Thus, the absence of the Conception ofSt Mary (Dec. 8) from a Kalendar suggests that itis earlier than the last quarter of the eleventhcentury; while the appearance of Corpus Christigoes to determine a Kalendar to be later 1260. From what has been said, it will seen that, evenapart from the style of the handwriting, the forma-tion of the various letters, the
. The church year and kalendar. t festival absent, or, as is frequently thecase, inserted in a later handwriting, the strongpresumption is raised that the original Kalendarbelongs to a time before the establishment of thefestival. Thus, the absence of the Conception ofSt Mary (Dec. 8) from a Kalendar suggests that itis earlier than the last quarter of the eleventhcentury; while the appearance of Corpus Christigoes to determine a Kalendar to be later 1260. From what has been said, it will seen that, evenapart from the style of the handwriting, the forma-tion of the various letters, the manner of punctuation,and other palaeographical indications, the mere con-tents of a Kalendar will often help the student tomake a good conjecture as to both the place of theorigin of a manuscript and the time when it waspenned. As regards the particular Church for the use ofwhich any Kalendar was intended, attention shouldbe directed not only to the appearance of certainfestivals, but to the rank and dignity of the festivals,. iii v * • tit •. •■;.; .■«fc|a«JiS:, iiiaiiiii wi? ««i^ b t . 1 Si: A ^^fC W
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