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Readers of the list will certainly be interested in this, which was forwarded by
a friend:
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:30:35 +0200
From: Denis Muzerelle <[log in to unmask]>
To: APILIST <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Calendars
Dear Colleagues,
I have the pleasure to announce the implementation on IRHT's Website of
a new tool for the use of specialists in medieval manuscripts:
CALENDOSCOPE.
The address is:
http://calendriers.irht.cnrs.fr
Calendoscope is intended to help the specialists in analyzing and
identifying medieval liturgical calendars.
There are only very few tools specifically intended for this end;
therefore, one is generally brought to use repertories conceived from a
hagiographic point of view - rather far away from the liturgical
concerns implied in the analysis of a calendar or a sanctoral.
Moreover, the use of these rare existing tools is extremely
unconfortable in the traditional book form, the reader being constrained
to jump ceaselessly to and from various reference calendars,
alphabetical indexes, chronological lists (by days of the year), index
of sources, etc.
Calendoscope was conceived to remedy these inconveniences.
. For any day of the year, it provides instantaneously a list of the
saints appearing on this date in the various calendars in the data base.
. For any saint present in the database, it provides instantaneously a
list of the calendars in which this one appears on a given date, and
allows full examination of the contents of the corresponding items.
. A memorizing function allows to retain the calendars presenting
interesting features. Hence, by successive eliminations, it is possible
to determine which one is the most closely related to a given calendar.
The data base consists currently of 515 calendars (manuscripts or
early-sixteenth-century prints), amounting together to approximately
4500 distinct "celebrations" (inscription of a given festival on a given
day) attested by ca. 160 000 occurrences.
Thanks for forwarding this advertisement to whomsoever may be concerned.
--
Denis MUZERELLE
resp. de la section "Paléographie latine"
Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes (CNRS)
40 avenue d'Iéna, F-75116 PARIS
ATTENTION
Durant la fermeture de l'IRHT pour travaux,
le courrier peut m'être envoyé à cette adresse:
D. Muzerelle, c/o Gazette du livre médiéval
CNRS - LAMOP, 7 rue Guy-Moquet, BP 8
94801 Villejuif Cedex
FAX: (+33) [0]1 49 58 36 65
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Bonnie Blackburn
67 St Bernard's Road
Oxford OX2 6EJ
tel. +44 (0)1865 552808
fax +44 (0)1865 512237
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