31-05-2026, 08:30 PM
Excellent find!
So rather than a rare dialect, we might be dealing with a non-native French speaker trying to write French - which gradually was replacing Latin as Lingua Franca (sic)
If we accept Taccola as source, which already pushes the VM creation date into the 1430s, there is not much time left until a significant decline of Octembre.
So what would this mean for a likely origin of a Walloon or Picard speaking (writing) month name creator from what is nowadays Belgium? Valois Burgundy?
So rather than a rare dialect, we might be dealing with a non-native French speaker trying to write French - which gradually was replacing Latin as Lingua Franca (sic)
If we accept Taccola as source, which already pushes the VM creation date into the 1430s, there is not much time left until a significant decline of Octembre.
So what would this mean for a likely origin of a Walloon or Picard speaking (writing) month name creator from what is nowadays Belgium? Valois Burgundy?