Fontes Anglo-Saxonici

Transmission:: 1 January; Scragg no. B19.j. The Beginning of January: The source for the sections on the beginnings of the months might have been Bede's De temporum ratione, although it is not in all cases clear whether this represents an antecedent or direct source. Kotzor also signals relevant information in a number of liturgical calendars and martyrologies which might also have served as sources. Given the common nature of the details presented by the Old English Martyrologist, the question also arises as to whether literary sources were necessarily used at all for the sections on the beginnings of the months.
Bibliography:: Kotzor 1981, 1, 268 and 2, 278-9; Herzfeld 1900, p. xxxiv

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