Month names collection / metastudy

[eggyk]

Great changes! I'll try to get around to adding the ones I haven't done yet   

There are certainly many instances of incomplete sequences. I have got to the point now where non-found full calendars/almanacs are rare to come across in the sources I have. The next area i'm trying to search is within chronicles or the telling of history. ("on the 5th day of the month of june in the year 1350 the king of england visited and then he left on the first day of july"). Many were written far far later, so finding such chronicles from pre ~1550AD is of more interest. 

Even if they contain great matches for some months, there is a high chance of producing incomplete sequences as only the relevant month names are written. Also, the amount of work to sift through the texts is magnitudes higher. However, handwritten chronicles are probably more likely to contain vernacular/non-latin or abbreviated month names compared to headers in calendars. 


Seperately, I have been interested in the spelling "aougst". It almost appears to me to be a mix of french aoust and dutch ougst, which is the sort of blending we might be trying to find. It appears on the spreadsheet once already, but actually provides a decent amount of hits on the Munchener Library, with authors like Jacob van Wesenbeeck representing (imo) a plausible type of person who could have wrote these names. Someone who published and spoke in both french and dutch (and low saxon?), with an You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. stating of one of his works: 

In the same year this work was also published in french, under the title: La description de l'Etat, Succes et faic de la Religion. Imprimé en Aougst 1569. Both of these editions are very rare. 
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In 1616, the dutch edition was already so unknown to a new publisher that they had the french edition transferred into [dutch]. It was also not agreed whether the work was originally written in [low saxon / low german] or french. Only later was it discovered that they appeared at the same time. 

 I do also wonder, could belgium/antwerp also be a potential link to aberil, given the eighty years war and the spanish takeover in the late 16th century?