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Dear Tom,
I'm afraid this sounds to me like a pretty generic Sarum calendar, rather
than a rare one that might be easily localized. To be sure, though, you
might want to check its contents closely against the one in Procter and
Wordsworth's edition of the Sarum breviary or another standard source on
that use. (Pfaff's bibliography of liturgical mss identifies most of
these.) If your calendar gives a higher grading to Edward's feasts (or
anybody else's) than the standard Sarum books do, that might tell you
something about its provenance.
Another question worth asking about a Sarum calendar is whether or not it
includes the feasts that were added during the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries (as I recall the main 14th-c. ones were Conception of the Virgin
Mary on Dec. 8, Feast of Relics moved from Sept. 15 to the second week in
July, Hugh of Lincoln on Nov. 17, and [many decades later] Anne on July 26;
15th cent., David and Chad on March 1 and 2, John of Beverly in May and
again in the fall, Frideswide and Etheldrede in October; later still,
Visitation on July 2, Transfiguration and Holy Name in August, etc.)
Sometimes, too, a calendar turns out to be localizable because it includes
one or more of these feasts before it was generally authorized (or decreed)
for Sarum observance-- for example, a thirteenth-century calendar that
already includes Hugh, or a 14th century one with Frideswide.
Sorry for the delay in responding to this question. The earlier suggestion
about Wormald and Benedictine calendars might still be pertinent if you
have reason to believe this is a monastic psalter, but otherwise I'd start
with the assumption that it's Sarum (and secular), and work from there.
Sherry Reames (English Dept., Univ. of Wisconsin [who's working on a
catalog of the saints in surviving Sarum breviaries])
At 09:02 AM 1/4/02 -0500, you wrote:
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>Another question off the Psalter MS:
>How common was the cult of edward king & marytr in England? The calendar at
>the beginning of the MS has both his feast & the feast of his
>translation. It has the same for Richard of Chichester. The other saints
>tend to be pretty prominenty. Beckett's feast & translation appear in
>red; Dunstand & Cuthbert appear. So do Alphege & Edmund of
>Canterbury. Except for Cuthbert & Oswald, most of the English saints are
>southern. Would any of this, especially, Edward's prominence, establish a
>location narrower than Province of Canterbury?
>Tom Izbicki
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