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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: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
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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Heures du Moyen Âge

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Book of hours illustrated in late medieval style, containing a calendar of saints' feast days, prayers, the order of Mass, the order of Masses for matrimony, and vespers for Sundays and feast days, as well as eight blank pages for annotations.

657062

Book of Hours, use of Châlons-sur-Marne : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-77v. [Book of Hours]: f. i r-v [added 16th c.]: Prayer to the Virgin; ff. 1-6v: Calendar in French; ff. 7-8v, 10-11: Pericopes of the Gospels (and on f. 11r-v, continuation of the responsorial prayer from f. i verso); ff. 13-14v: Obsecro te; ff. 40, 39, 41-43, 23, 12, 20-22, 27, 15, one leaf missing, 30, 25-26, 34, one leaf missing, 9, 16, two leaves missing, 19, one leaf missing, 35-36, one leaf missing, 37-38, one leaf missing; 24, two leaves missing, 29: Hours of the Virgin, apparently use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 44-54v: Penitential psalms and litany; f. 54r-v: prayer added, 16th c., in the same hand as on f. i r-v: [M]ediatrix ..., [A]uxiliatrix ..., [R]eparatrix ...; ff. 31-32, 17-18, 33, 28, 55-71v: Office of the Dead, use of Châlons-sur-Marne; ff. 72-77v: Prayers in Latin and French to the Virgin with a woman as suppliant; f. 77r-v: completion of prayer from f. 54v: [I]lluminatrix ..., [A]lleluiatrix ...

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Portable Slate Desk

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One stone drawing slate patented by C.C. Shepherd, ca. 1877. The slate is contained within a wooden frame, which is supported at one end by a hollow wedge, used to store rectangular slats, which function as drawing cards with white and black illustrations. On the underside of the wedge is a paper label which reads: "Portable Slate Desk." The copy is placed in a direct line of the focus of the eye, so as to enable the pupil to see the Copy, and the execution of the same. ... Patented January 1877. C.C. Shepherd." At the top of the slate are slots where the rectangular slats slide in.

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Italian choir book containing text and music for the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas.

mssHM 80527

[Sermonario en Lengua Mexicana] : [donde se contiene (por el orden del Misal nuevo Romano) dos Sermones en todas las Dominicas y Festividades principales de todo el año, y otro en las Fiestas de los Santos, con sus Vidas, y Comunes. Con un Catecismo en lengua mexicana y española, con el Calendario.] / [Compuesto por el R.P. Fr. Juan de la Anunciación, Subprior del monasterio de S. Agustín, de México]

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Title taken from copy described in Garcia Icazbalceta, J. Bibliografía Mexicana del siglo XVI ... pt. 1, no. 73. Text of the Sermonario, containing 2 sermons for each day, is in Nahuatl, for the Cathecismo in Spanish and Nahuatl in parallel columns. Half title page in Nahuatl for the saints' feast days: Nican ompehua yn temachtilli, ynitechpovi sanctoral. Separate title page: Cathecismo en lengua mexicana y espanola. En Mexico, Por Antonio Ricardo. M.D.LXXVII. Woodcut title page vignette of St. Augustine in different versions on all three title pages. Decorative initials and tail-piece. Includes index, Tablade de los sermones, and the calendar of saints' feast days. Errata on leaf 3E8v. Errors in foliation: leaves 23-24, 69, 99, 101, 133, 149, 165, 167 and 168 are misnumbered respectively: 33, 42, 70, 98, 104, 131, 159, 565, 158, 568. Signatures: A-P⁸ , Q⁴ , Aa-Mm⁸ , Nn⁴ , Aaa-Eee⁸.

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