The Calendar Companion

The Calendar Companion brings the most advanced Elizabethan technology to you! It is a reproduction of the ‘writing tables’ or ‘table books’ often referred to by Shakespeare, which were the first pocket planners. This edition is especially for the Society of Creative Anachronism. The notebooks are approximately 3.75 x 4.75”, and .75” thick. The Tablet Pages can be written on with the included brass stylus as well as with some other instruments, and wiped clean with a wet cloth. This is 16th-century technology that is just right for now because it is sustainable and all natural. The Calendar Companion is designed to last for years and is closed with a hand-crafted reproduction brass clasp. The cover is stamped by hand with the same design that is on the original notebook in the Folger Shakespeare Library. Individuality and variation are guaranteed!

At the moment, the notebook is offered in a choice of two cover materials and two colors (black and brown). Imitation leather has a soft, velvety feel. Leather is the Real Thing ~ it is durable and thick and the spine will show the three binding cords clearly, giving a classic look. The printed pages (on laid cotton paper) contain the following:

Instructions for using the Tablet Pages

A multi-yeere Calendar

A Calendar, shewing all past yeeres

A Map of the Knowne Worlde

I. A discription of the Kingdoms of the Society

II. The Major Warres fought eache yeere­

III. The Peere Orders and Rankes

IV. How to comport oneself if called up in Court

V. Of Officers

VI. How to responde to unworthie Behavior

VII. Care of the Horse

VIII. A guide for finding your Waye

IX. Coines of manye Landes

Coming soon: single-page inserts with the Order of Precedence (of baronies) for your kingdom, which you can paste inside the cover.