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Add MS 30034
- Record Id:
- 032-002021625
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002021625
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000034.0x000214
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 30034
- Title:
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Folding calendar
- Scope & Content:
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An Italian folding calendar for January to November.
Contents:
The calendar is abbreviated in comparison to the ones found in English folding almanacs. It consists of the golden number, Sunday letter, kalends, ides and nones for each month, saints' feasts and rules for calculating the date of mobile feasts. The calendar page for December is missing.
Decoration:
Two circular diagrams for calculating the Sunday letter from 1381 (f. 4v) in black, blue and red. Large KL initials on each folio in red and blue. Symbols including stars and crosses in the margin. Text in red or black.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002021625", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 30034: Folding calendar" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002021625
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002021625
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A folded parchment, 15 leaves
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_30034 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- c. 1381
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to use this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 120 x 100 mm (65 x 35 mm when folded).
Foliation: ff. 1-15 (15 folded leaves).
Layout: Contents on rectos, labels on versos.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: Folded leaves sewn together at the lower edges, with part of ff. 1v and 15v, forming the outer cover, attached to a triangular metal plate with a ring.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
Provenance:
The calendar contains dedications of churches in Rome (the page for November (f. 15r) has the dedications of the Basilicas of Saint Saviour on 9th and of the Apostles Peter and Paul on 18th) and notes in Italian in the margins (see Hercule Géraud, 'Calendrier Portatif' (1841), p. 275).
The date is included, partly in Roman numerals in the following inscription on f. 1r, 'Tabula sup[ra] scripta facta fuit sub a[nno] do[mini] M.CCC. 81. Cur[r]ebat 14 p[ro] auro nu[mer]o et nu[n]cq[uam] fallit' and in Arabic numerals, '1381' on f. 4v.
The triangular metal plate to which the parchment is attached has a ring for a cord, suggesting that this was a reference work designed to be suspended from a girdle.
M. Charles Sauvageot (b. 1781, d. 1860), bibliophile and conservator of the Louvre, in his collection in 1841: described by Hercule Géraud, 'Calendrier Portatif' (1841) as 'conservé dans le riche cabinet que s'est créé M. Sauvageot' (preserved in the rich collections of Mr Sauvageot) and in his sale catalogue, 3 December 1860, lot 121.
William Bragge (b. 1823, d. 1884) engineer and antiquary, his sale, Sotheby's, 7 June 1876, lot 56. Bought by the British Museum for 4 pounds 6 shillings.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
- Publications:
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Hercule Géraud, 'Calendrier Portatif dressé l'an 1381', Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, 2 (1841), pp. 272-80 (described as Manuscrit Sauvageot).
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: British Museum, 1882), p. 24.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 335, II, pl. 269.
J. P. Gumbert, 'Über Faltbücher, vornehmlich Almanach' in Rationalisierung der Buchherstellung in Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit, ed. by Peter Rück and Martin Boghardt (Marburg an der Lahn Institut für Historische Hilfswissenschaften, 1994), pp. 111-22 (p. 113, n. 20).
Hilary M. Carey, 'What is the Folded Almanac? The Form and Function of a Key Manuscript Source for Astro-medical Practice in Later Medieval England', Social History of Medicine, 16 (2003), pp. 481-509 (pp. 484-85, 487).
J. P. Gumbert, Bat Books: a Catalogue of Folded Manuscripts Containing Almanacs or Other Texts, Bibliologia, 41 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016), no. 10, pp. 54-55.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)