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Add MS 70517
- Record Id:
- 040-002044038
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002043439
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000541.0x000206
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165151899.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 70517
- Title:
- Folding calendar
- Scope & Content:
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Recto: A sequence of seasons and months of year; a table of Latin numerals i-xxx.
Verso: A perpetual calendar with saints' days; calculations of the number of years since biblical events, ending with 1412 years since the birth of Christ.
Decoration:
Miniatures in colours: the labours of the month and the signs of the Zodiac with diagrams showing the numbers of hours of daylight in a particular month (recto); saints and symbols for feast days and biblical events (verso).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002043439
033-002044025
040-002044038 - Is part of:
- Add MS 70001-70523 : THE PORTLAND PAPERS. Papers of the Harley Family of Brampton Bryan, and of the related families of Vere, Holles, Cavendish…
Add MS 70506-70523 : I. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS 70506-70523. PORTLAND PAPERS. Vols. DVI-DXXIII (29/16, 55-61, 240, 243, 327-333). Miscellaneous…
Add MS 70517 : Folding calendar - Hierarchy:
- 032-002043439[0009]/033-002044025[0009]/040-002044038
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 70001-70523
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 folded calendar
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100165151899.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1411
- End Date:
- 1413
- Date Range:
- ? 1412
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 680 x 100 mm fully unfolded (each folded square 50 x 40 mm).
Foliation: None.
Script: Gothic.
Binding: None, kept in an envelope inside a folding case.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
William Cavendish-Bentinck (b. 1893, d. 1977), seventh Duke of Portland: deposited the manuscript at the British Museum on 21 August 1953 as part of ‘The Portland Loan’ (Loan 29), consisting chiefly of the papers of the Harley family of Brampton Bryan, and of the related families of Vere, Holles, Cavendish and Cavendish-Bentinck, originally housed at Welbeck Abbey and deposited at the British Museum between 1947 and 1967. The envelope is inscribed ‘Deposited as an indefinite loan by the Duke of Portland, for addition to other MSS. from Welbeck. 21.8.53’.
The Portland Papers and Add. Ch. 76671-76767 were accepted by the Government in lieu of Capital Transfer Tax in March 1986 and, on the advice of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and in accordance with the wishes of the Portland executors, were allocated to the British Library in May 1987.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1986-1990, 2 vols (London: The British Museum, 1993), I, pp. 604-05.
Pamela Robinson, 'A "very curious Almanack": the gift of Sir Robert Moray FRS, 1668', Notes and Records of The Royal Historical Society, 62, 3 (September 2008), 301-314 (308).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)