2026 Ordo Kalendar

2026 Calendar ORDERS PLACED BY DECEMBER 5th WILL ARRIVE BEFORE CHRISTMAS 10 x 12 & 5/8 inches12 pages with hole punch for hanging This year’s Kalendar features historiated initials from the medieval manuscripts collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA). These large, decorated letters are primarily found in the liturgical and devotional books that were central to medieval religious life and contain narrative scenes of saints’ lives, stories from the Bible, and religious services that relate to the surrounding text. Production of these initials was a painstaking process, and the final step in the collaborative effort that was a hallmark of medieval bookmaking. After a scribe copied the text onto vellum (most often sheep or calfskin), the page would be given to an illuminator, who applied bright pigments and gold leaf to enliven the initials and margin. Sometimes these miniature works of art were produced by an individual; others were the products of a team of artists or a schoo