A Tenth-Century Fragment of the Metrical Calendar of Gambera from the Lake Constance Region
Farley P. Katz
The Gambera Missal is an illustrated missal written around 1500, now in the Archivio Capitolare at Casale Monferrato. manuscript includes text of a Latin metrical calendar (the “Metrical Calendar Gambera” or MCG) which, based on feasts included, was suggested to have been composed some 450 years earlier and had connection Abbey St. Gall. This article discusses second witness MCG, single leaf that used as binding for seventeenth-century book. fragment has computistical data virtually identical manuscript, large Ottonian painted KL (for “Kalends”). Based handwriting style initials, dates second-half tenth century, likely from Lake Constance area.
Fragmentology