Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 10837

Images: Gallica

Other shelfmark(s): none

Physical description: parchment, 245 × 192 mm (fols. 2–33), 222 × 158 mm (fols. 34–41, 44), 217 × 170 mm (fols. 42–43), 45 fols., 1 col.

Language: Latin

Date: 8th cent. (fol. 1 is 11th cent.); the Calendar of Willibrord is traditionally dated to 728

Provenance: Echternach

Contents:

Notes about the Places of the Holy Apostles (fol. 3r)

Additional contents: Martyrologium Hieronymianum (fols. 2r–33r); Calendar of Willibrord, including Easter tables (34r–44v)

Catalogs and studies:

Hen, Yitzhak. Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 481–751. Leiden: Brill, 1995 (pp. 102–106 on the Calendar of Willibrord).

Warntjes, Immo. “The Origin(s) of the Medieval Calendar Tradition in the Latin West.” Pages 129–87 in Calendars in the Making: The Origins of Calendars from the Roman Empire to the Later Middle Ages. Edited by Sacha Stern. Time, Astronomy, and Calendars: Texts and Studies 10. Leiden: Brill (pp. 134–38 on the Calendar of Willibrord).

Wilson, Henry A. The Calendar of St-Willibrord. From MS. Paris. Lat. 10837. A Facsimile with Transcription, Introduction and Notes. Woodbridge: Boydell Press for the Bradshaw Society, 1998.

Other online databases: BnF Archives et manuscrits, Biblissima; The Cult of the Saints in Late Antiquity; Mirabile; Earlier Latin Manuscripts

Entry created by Brandon W. Hawk, Rhode Island College ([email protected]), 30 January 2023.