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Portable calendar: [girdle book]

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Description
ff. 1-8. Calendar in portable format (Latin). Calendar, missing the leaves for February, October, November and December, with some grading; each leaf is blank on the verso, except for the month name, which, when the calendar is folded, appears at the top on the outside of the leaf. Written probably in Ferrara, between 1450 (canonization of Bernardinus) and 1455 or 1458 (canonization of Vincent Ferrer and institution of the Feast of the Transfiguration, neither of which appear in the calendar). John of Tossignano was bishop of Ferrara, 1432-1446.
Type
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Date
between 1450 and 1460
Call number
mssHM 47641
Provenance
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.
Restrictions
NOT AVAILABLE. Does not circulate. Please contact Reader Services for more information.
Dimensions
83 x 110 mm - when open: 110 x 83 mm.; folded: 55 x 30 mm
Associated people
Millard, George M., (-1918,)
Millard, George M., (1873-1938,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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