Girdle Book Calendar (March - December only)
about 1300–50
Medium/TechniqueInk on parchment, silver handle with six carnelian beads
DimensionsOverall (open page dimensions): 6 x 4.5 cm (2 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number46.458
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Not on viewClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1909, Albert Figdor (b. 1843 - d. 1927), Vienna [see note 1]; June 14-15, 1932, Figdor and others sale, Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Lucerne, lot 599, sold for 180 fr. 1946, Blumka Gallery, New York; 1946, sold by Blumka to the MFA for $400. (Accession Date: June 13, 1946)
NOTES:
[1] See Ernst von Basserman-Jordan, Der Schmuck (Leipzig, Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1909), p. 88, fig. 100.
NOTES:
[1] See Ernst von Basserman-Jordan, Der Schmuck (Leipzig, Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1909), p. 88, fig. 100.
mid-15th century
16th century with 18th–century A.D.ditions
about 1300–50
Belbello da Pavia
mid-15th century
mid-15th century
about 1300–50
late 14th century
late 13th century
about 1450–75