Doctor’s folding almanac
Accession number:
MS G.47
Title:
Doctor’s folding almanac
Created:
England, ca. 1464.
Credit:
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description:
G.47.1 1 leaf, matted : vellum, ill. ; 249 x 180 mm
Provenance:
Sir Sydney Cockerell; Pierre Berès; London, Christie's, Oct. 7, 1957, lot 162; purchased there by Maggs Brothers Ltd., London for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes:
Ms. folding almanac; written and illuminated in England, ca. 1464.
This ms., according to type, consists of 6 leaves, each folded three times, forming sixteen compartments (recto and verso).
Decoration: 2 pen drawings: Zodiacal Man (fol. 6r), Vein Man (fol. 6v), 1 pen-drawn scroll with contents of leaf inscribed within, on each leaf, numerous illuminated and filigree initials; English Gothic style.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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