There’s no proper shelfmark but with only a few MS, Memorial University of Newfoundland can be forgiven. This Premonstratensian Book is dated to circa 1500 and unusually the name of the unusually female illuminator is known, Cornelia van Wulfschkercke (d. 1540), a nun of the calced Carmelite convent of Sion in Bruges. The calendar is not very well populated, with only 131 days populated. There is a rather interesting scribal error between April and May. April is only given 29 days, ending with the dominical letter ‘g’. May starts with ‘a’ and has both 32 days and all the saint matching their dominical letter. It appears that either the scribe realized their error and intentionally added April 30 as the first line of May, or simply blindly copied on, allowing the 2 errors to cancel each other out.
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