To provide an ink ribbon cartridge capable of preventing dust from adhering to an ink ribbon by covering the upper section of a cartridge body when being kept.

An ink ribbon 5 coated with a sublimable dye is suspended between a supply spool 3 and a wind-up spool 4 to be accommodated in a cartridge body 1 to form the ink ribbon cartridge. A handle member 2 formed to be in a shape covering the upper face of the cartridge body 1 is rotatably provided to one side end of the cartridge body 1.