{"id":493,"date":"2016-11-16T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/hargretthoursproject\/?p=493"},"modified":"2016-11-16T10:21:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T14:21:41","slug":"discoveries-in-the-hargrett-hours-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/hargretthoursproject\/discoveries-in-the-hargrett-hours-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Discoveries in the Hargrett Hours’ Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through our research into the calendar of the Hargrett Books of Hours, we found it bears a striking similarity to the <\/span>Paris Missal<\/span><\/a> and other use of Paris calendars; it, however, also contains differences that make us confident it is use of Paris. The similarities between the Paris missal and the Hargrett calendar include similar saints, some exclusive to Paris, and the grading of feast days: our calendar includes not only the name of the saint, but also how many lessons to recite in the day, or if the feast is a double feast, or <\/span>duplum<\/span><\/i>. This type of grading is not often found in books of hours (see figure 3).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Figure 1: April from the Use of Paris missal, Harley MS 2891. The dedication of the chapel of Paris is written in gold (top line).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two of the months I transcribed, August and April, provide remarkable and telling instances of matching the Paris Missal and then deviating from it. Transcription itself has been a strangely fluid process as the lists of saints, for the most part, roll into place, but I am far more interested in our text’s unique deviations as they have provided the avenues for research and the clues that allowed us to close in on the manuscript’s locality. For example, on the 25th of April, the Hargrett Hours calendar describes the “Dedicatio ecclesie capelle parisiensis,” which roughly translates to the dedication of the chapel of Paris. It is no secret that our little book has origins in that city, but, according to the manuscript details that accompany Harley MS 2891, yet another Paris Missal, this is one of many “feasts specific to the Sainte-Chapelle,” a fact that nudges us in the direction of our text\u2019s basic provenance1<\/sup>. The month of August offers additional information in this vein, filling in the original missal’s blank space on the fourth of the month with two crowded lines of text that rupture the calendar’s progression and give instructions regarding the Feast of the Holy Cross, yet another defining feature of Sainte-Chapelle. And while all of this is well and good, “strange” saints like Signi (April 16, September 17) and Andoman (April 18, September 19) remain untraceable or at the very least obscured, showing up only in our text’s version of April. Perhaps some particular influence is at play, but, again, the differentiation among the sameness is what prompts us forward. <\/span><\/p>\n