Month names collection / metastudy

[eggyk]

There is now a "Less interesting Sequences" tab on the spreadsheet. In order to fill out some of the areas we've been missing, it's required to search through manuscripts from germanic areas and the South of france, researching dutch, german, occitan and latin manuscripts. That leads to sifting through many manuscripts with non-interesting sequences, so instead of discarding them they're being added so they may be used in the future. 

This may be useful in particular for: 
-Research into the diacritic use for 'may' (found frequently in may/mayus)
-Locating a rough origin for some interesting manuscripts (using saints, paleography etc)
-Having a large database of zodiac depictions
-Insight into vowel and consonant shifts/blends over time and location (p <-> b / au <-> ou)

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However, now and again there are interesting sequences when researching this way. 
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15thC, Unknown Origin, but the title says schwäbisch, so maybe Swabia?

mercze
abrellen / apprelle
meige / maygen
brachmonet / brauchet, brouchmonot
hȯmonet
augste / ougst
herbstmonet
andern herbst 
dritten herbst
wintermonet

This manuscript must have been from an area where the b/p sound was close enough to be interchangeable (at least in vernacular spelling). I think this has been assumed to be the case for a while, but this is finally a solid example. 

Seperately, it also shows both Ougst and Augste being used, which gives us some insight into pronunciation for both. Honestly, whoever wrote this seems to have not particularly cared which vowels were used in words, as long as one was there.

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1368-1405AD, Germany?

mertz
aberell
erst may
ander may
prauchmon
erst awst
ander awst
erst herbst
ander herbst
christmon

'Aw' in august has only been confirmed in Metz, France (3 times) and in Huy, Belgium (once). Normally in 'awost' or 'awoust'. It's very unusual to see anything but some form of 'augst' in german sequences, so "awst" is a huge outlier. Perhaps awst indicates an origin somewhere in western germany or luxembourg?

What's also kinda(?) weird is the fact that we see 'aberell' for april, yet we see 'prauchmon' for july instead of the more common 'brachmon'. Perhaps just another indicator that the b/p usage was quite fluid.