Holding institution title: Girdle Calendar
Holding institution classification: Calendar
Holding institution location: New York, NY
URL: https://www.themorgan.org/manuscript/158293
URL2: N/A
Digitization status: Not digitized
Date: 1440
Language(s): Latin
Use:
Country of production: France
City or region of production: Tarentaise
Illumination contents: Unknown
Text contents: Calendar
Hours intercalated?:
Personalization:
Scribe: Mamert Fichet (d. c. 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)
Illuminator: N/A
Patron:
Materials:
Binding original?: Yes
Binding description: 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.
Folio height (in centimeters): 16.5
Folio width (in centimeters): 10
