Calendar
Texts and Images
The Calendar includes all three feast days (22 January, 24 April and 6 June) of St Vincent whose relics were at the Premonstratensian monastery of St Vincent in Breslau. The twelve double-page openings, each dedicated to a month in the Calendar, are framed within twin arches with pillars supported by beasts and hybrids. Miniatures beneath the arches show Labours of the Month, Zodiac signs and scenes illustrating clauses of the Apostles’ Creed. Religious feasts or busts of saints are depicted in the side borders beside their mention in the Calendar.
Calendar (January)
The second Calendar page for January shows St Peter holding a key and a scroll inscribed with a phrase from the Apostles’ Creed, Credo in deum patrem qui creat[or] celi et terre (‘I believe in God the Father who is the creator of heaven and earth’); Christ with celestial and terrestrial globes standing between two adoring angels; Aquarius; (left border) St Anthony, St Agnes with angel, St Paul lifted by a man, St Valerius; (right border) St Prisca, Saints Fabian and Sebastian, St Vincent, St Timothy, St John Chrysostom.
This page includes two ‘red letter’ days that would have been of special importance to the manuscript’s commissioner: the feast of the 3rd-century Roman saint Agnes (21 January), which probably honoured Anna Premyslid’s sister, Agnes of Bohemia, and one of the feasts of St Vincent (22 January), whose relics were at the Premonstratensian monastery of St Vincent in Breslau.