The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 47641

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9602

Shelfmark:

mssHM 47641

Title:

Portable calendar

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

date of publication not identified

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 1-8 volumes : parchment ; 83 x 110 mm - when open: 110 x 83 mm.; folded: 55 x 30 mm

Former Owner(s):

Millard, George M., -1918

George M. Millard WIKIDATA

Millard, George M., Mrs., 1873-1938

Alice Millard WIKIDATA

Note:

The 2 outer thirds of each leaf fold vertically inwards over the middle third; the entire leaf is then folded horizontally downward in half. Tabs extending from the bottom of the middle third of each leaf, together with protective morocco flaps front and back are held by a brass clip with a loop at its other end, 50 9 32 mm., so as to hang the calendar from a belt. The clip is engraved with...
Title from printed catalog.
Sold by Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Lucerne, 14 June 1932, lot 598 with plate of the case. The numbers 2718 (crossed out) and 2882 on a rectangular, red-edged paper label affixed to the fitted pasteboard box containing the calendar. Belonged to Alice Parsons Millard (1873-1938)
Alice and George Millard collection Illustrating the evolution of the book, acquired for the Huntington Library by a group of their friends in 1939.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

girdle books

Church calendar

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1829514

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52733/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens