![]() ![]() This concept made sense given that the manuscript was foliated at all, for the only reason to foliate a book would have been to key it to some indexing system, such as a contents table otherwise, there would be no reason to impose such a reference system. ![]() Furthermore, most of the numerals were between ccc and cccc : rather than serving any astrological function, they referred to folios. This suggested that the Roman numerals have something to do with the saints, rather than with celestial bodies. Trying different angles of attack, I noted that saints listed in black have their Roman numerals in red, while saints in red have their Roman numerals in black, apparently for contrast. 2 But that was not their function in this manuscript. My first thought was that these Roman numerals might indicate the phase of the moon or help calculate movable feast days, for this information sometimes appears in medieval calendars. 24332 is that many of the saints’ names are followed by a Roman numeral. Overgaauw, ‘Saints in Medieval Calendars from the Diocese (.)Īll late medieval calendars give the dominical letter, A–G, for each day of the year (which correspond to the seven days of the week and are reassigned each year, rendering the calendar perpetual), and list saints’ days, often with the most important local cults inscribed in red. 2 For Netherlandish calendars, see Eef.Calendars and the Principle of Interchangeable Parts The calendar was so innovative and unusual, that it took some time to figure out its intricacies. Whereas all medieval calendars serve as perpetual calendars, based on the annual repeated veneration of certain saints on certain days, this calendar has an added feature: someone has devised an extra function for it, by adding folio numbers to the 365 days, thereby turning the calendar into a table of contents. 24332, although admittedly an unlikely place to find clues about the beghards’ mental habits, is highly unusual and deserves some analysis. 1 The beghards exploited a range of technologies to limit their labour, to avoid duplication, and to make prayers and information discoverable.Ģ The calendar in Add. As Mary Rouse and Richard Rouse have shown, finding aids and scholarly apparatus developed over the course of the twelfth century, with such tools as biblical concordances and alphabetical subject indexes. It is particularly meant for those who are interested in information systems, the changing technologies of finding aids. 1 The Rouses’ fundamental studies of medieval finding aids are: Richard Rouse, ‘Cistercian Aids to St (.)ġ This chapter about the table of contents forms a slight departure from the principal narrative in this book, about the cut-and-pasted print.
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