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I should mention that I have migrated this work off of Twitter. If you want to follow the glory that is calendars in Books of Hours, please give a follow over at https://t.co/ctnGHRxFZn #MedievalTwitter

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The calendar is extremely sparse, 94 entries, and accurate, only a single error: Medard on July 7 should be June 6, and a shifting of 2 feasts in Feb. An unusual listing is Benedict as "monk" on March 21 (f.2r below)
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Another @dartmouth #BookOfHours added, Codex 3134, is a Flemish hours from c. 1425. It's a … well loved #Manuscript, with the first folio worn, creased, filthy, and with the biggest coffee cup circle ever. (f.1r below). NB. the prick marks are still visible
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In addition, of the 7 hapex saints, several are from Nantes only 50mi from Angers.
https://t.co/T8FW7YtkqG
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Getting back to adding Hours with @NewberryLibrary Case MS 44, thanks to @DrKarrSchmidt. This is, at first glance, a standard French mid 15th C Use of Rome Hours, though with particularly nice illumination (see the Annunciation on f.23r)
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[CoKL Database @cokldb]

However it is Use of Angers, unusual, and extremely accurate. Where a Paris MS might have 30 errors and many unknown saints (or worse, Case MS 43 has 56 errors, 29 unknown), this has 12 errors and 15 unknown.
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And here's fix #2, 641 connections and 1921 queries. There's room for improvement, 6 seconds is a LOT of time to execute queries, but at least that's processing time, not logging-in time!
(H/t to the NYTProf - https://t.co/r3ulpl94Tm)

[CoKL Database @cokldb]

Infrastructure note: I've moved the backend MySQL to a managed instance, but that seems to have made the "list of manuscripts" page extremely slow, and it wasn't fast to begin with. So this is to let you know I know it's a thing, I'm sorry, and hopefully I'll have it fixed soon.

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Here's fix 1, still making 5,121 queries from the DB, but at least only connecting 641 times.

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The calendar is ~ 1/3 full (126 entries) and accurate (1 shifted a day). Two entries of particular interest, S Milburga (Feb-23) and Amelberga of Temse (May-14). The later feast is for her translation, celebrated near Antwerp, and unique in the Db.
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https://t.co/7Nd9ueBjRU

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Another one from @NewberryLibrary, Case MS 56, the "Hours of Margaret of Croy", from c. 1430. It has unusually "primitive" full page miniatures, eg the crucifixion below with the nail-pullers in use, f.11r and the brutal Massacre on f.53r
h/t @DrKarrSchmidt
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The main text of this book is profusely decorated, with acanthus borders and line fillers on most of the early pages. Deeper in the pages are plainer, and a chunk of the late text is in Dutch, see f.204r below
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Then one reads it, and everything goes to hell. There are 56 entries on the wrong date and another 29 unidentified, so almost 1/4 of the entries are wrong somehow. Some are flipped, some are shifted and some are… It _is_ pretty tho.
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https://t.co/9NwcClUzF2

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First new Hours in a while comes from @NewberryLibrary, MS Case 43. Made in Rouen, c. 1470, this is a lovely MS with the classic "4 Evangalists in a window" miniature at the start of the pericopes. Images courtesy of @DrKarrSchmidt
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The calendar is equally pleasing to look at, from a distance, with red/blue and gold entries, and blocks of acanthus leaves, see the first 1/2 of Jan below
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