06-10-2025, 06:33 PM
Great initiative, looking forward to more conclusive results such as in your earlier project.
In my opinion, not trying to pre-determine region or language is the better approach here anyway, as it reduces the risk of influencing the outcome by favouring particular regions. Any area with a Romance language might make sense to at least take a cursory look at, although there are probably limits to how far southwest or southeast one would reasonably go without anything in particular pointing there.
You are probably aware of it, but for everyone who might be interested: Gallica offers significant numbers of French digitized manuscripts and the catalogue allows to limit the search to a timeframe, manuscripts and key words. For example, Decembre has >100 hits, Octembre yields exactly one 15th century result that probably has been linked here somewhere already: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Alternatively, searching key words by region, type of document or via the catalogues here You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. might be an approach without emphasising the month names too much.
In my opinion, not trying to pre-determine region or language is the better approach here anyway, as it reduces the risk of influencing the outcome by favouring particular regions. Any area with a Romance language might make sense to at least take a cursory look at, although there are probably limits to how far southwest or southeast one would reasonably go without anything in particular pointing there.
You are probably aware of it, but for everyone who might be interested: Gallica offers significant numbers of French digitized manuscripts and the catalogue allows to limit the search to a timeframe, manuscripts and key words. For example, Decembre has >100 hits, Octembre yields exactly one 15th century result that probably has been linked here somewhere already: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Alternatively, searching key words by region, type of document or via the catalogues here You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. might be an approach without emphasising the month names too much.