Calendar

Fol. 1r-1v. Calendar for January, February, March.

Fol. 2r-2v. Calendar for April, May, June

Fol. 3r-3v. Calendar for July, August, September.

Fol. 4r-4v – Calendar for October, November, December. 

Fol. 5r. Ymago uenarum (vein man), Ymago signorum (zodiac man).

Fol. 5v. Instructions for using the tables.  

When folded 160 x 41 mm (including tab), 132 x 41 mm (excluding tab); when open 264 x 164 mm. Fol. 5 is separate, dimensions 264 x 157 mm.

The verso sides are blank but for a contemporary title of contents on a fold. 

Five folios folded in half (horizontally) then folded vertically into four with edges turned in towards centre, sewn together at one end. Fol. 1-4 attached to vellum tab, fol. 5 separated. One column of 33 lines, ruled in brown ink. Prickings in the margins. 

Fifteenth-century English gothic bookhand (textualis) in brown ink. Calendar in brown and blue ink. 

Illuminated in ink, gold & watercolour. Gold and blue are used for special feasts in the Calendar, red ink for the tabulae. Each calendar month is headed by an illuminated initial with marginal feathered sprays terminated by green buds. There are two drawings in ink of naked men seen frontally and on greenish grounds (fol. 5r) – ymago uenarum (vein man; microcosmic man) and ymago signorum (zodiac man).