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Publication Date
2025
Document Type
Poster
Degree Type
Undergraduate
Department
English
Mentor
Dr. Kathryn Jasper
Mentor Department
History
Abstract
When Special Collections acquired an original, fourteenth-century Carthusian Breviary, we knew very little about its historical and cultural context. Today, the Breviary remains to us. Why it was commissioned? How were its contents organized and formatted? Since 2018, students involved in the ISU Paleography Illuminated Project have transcribed dozens of pages with dense Latin texts full of abbreviations, but we have yet to understand the decisions behind their arrangement. Some pages include a liturgical calendar with a list of saints and their feast days, which has never been studied. My project examines this calendar to uncover the rationale behind the monastery’s unique religious rituals.
Recommended Citation
Chamness, Belle, "The Liturgical Calendar of the Carthusian Breviary" (2025). University Research Symposium. 512.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/rsp_urs/512
