Girdle Calendar

Accession number: 
MS M.897
Title: 
Girdle Calendar
Created: 
Tarentaise, France, 1440.
Binding: 
Stubs of the leaves are sewn together and to two strips of undressed leather stitched together with thongs to form a protective cover, which is slipped over the ends of the calendar leaves. Stubs remain of the leather thongs used to suspend the calendar from the girdle.
Description: 
14 leaves (various columns, 32 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; unfolded: 165 x 100 mm; folded: 92 x 30 mm
Provenance: 
Owned by "un amateur parisien" in 1959; purchased from Laurence Witten, New Haven, CT, in March, 1960, Gift of the Fellows.
Notes: 

Ms. calendar; written in Moutier in Tarentaise, France, in 1440.
Scribe: Mamert Fichet (d. ca. 1480), priest and notary, later a bishop in partibus of Hebron and later (1470) suffragan to the Bishop of Geneva (brother of Guillaume Fichet who installed the first printing press in France within the precincts of the Sorbonne).

Script: 
cursive
Language: 
Latin
Century: 
Classification: