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The Months Of September To December Of A Calendar, In A Bible

Description: In size this manuscript is not untypical of Bibles that were produced in their hundreds in the 13th century; but it has several very unusual features. For example, the main text of almost all medieval Bibles was written with two columns per page, not one, as we find here. Secondly, this manuscript has a liturgical calendar and a long series of sermon notes between the Old and New Testaments. The calendar has previously been taken to indicate a Dover origin, but Christ Church, Canterbury (of which Dover priory was a cell), is more likely. It was certainly owned by Roger Bennett, a monk of Christ Church in the 15th century. The calendar is laid out with four months per page. The presence of the feast of the Dedication of St. Martin's Priory, Dover ('Dedicatio ecclesie sancti Martini de Dovor.', 19 October, lower left of page) has previously been taken to suggest an origin there; but this entry is not written in red, and has no liturgical grading, suggesting that it was a minor feast. Edmund of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, who was canonised in 1246 is absent, suggesting that the calendar was written before that date.
Geographic coverage: 631500 , 141500; Dover; http://sws.geonames.org/2651048/
Date: [1240]
Date of creation: After 1220; probably before 1246
Type: StillImage; Illuminated manuscript
Format: jpeg; 20.8; 13.4; Centimetres; Ink and pigments on vellum
Subject: Kent; Manuscripts, medieval -- Great Britain; 091
Identifier: 011EGE000002867U00424000; Egerton MS 2867
Is part of: Illuminated Manuscripts. Collect Britain
Rights: Copyright © British Library Board
Data provider: The British Library
Provider: The European Library
Providing country: United Kingdom
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