Month names collection / metastudy

[Koen G]

I feel the next step would be doing some serious archival work at BnF or the Belgian, Swiss and Lixemburghish equivalents to look for livres d'heures and mémoires from Picardie, Lorraine, and other French speaking border territories in Belgium luxembourg and Switzerland. Unfortunately that takes a lot of time and would probably be better suited for a professional researcher.

There is... another way, though I am hesitant to speak of it. The handwriting has some interesting features, and a pretty good profile can be made of several letters. Any kind of document can be scored against this, regardless of the contents. 

Marco and I did this for the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. script (which is definitely different from this one), with some results. To be presented on VMD.

If the same is done for the month names, we now have the additional advantage that we could overlay the results of the handwriting comparison and those of the month name variants. It would make for an interesting map.

But it's a lot of work that requires strong discipline.