Accession number
MS M.897
Object title
Girdle Calendar (MS M.897).
Display Date
1440.
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).
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
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