Folding Almanac, late 15th century, including calendar information and medical summaries

Date:
Late 15th century
Reference:
MS.40
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Folding Almanac, late 15th century, including calendar information and medical summaries. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Calendarium.

Indictiones.

Festa mobilia.

Tabula planetarum.

Homo venarum.

Tabula lunae.

Eclipses solis.

Eclipses lunae.

Homo signorum.

Canon Kalendarii.

Written in red and black, with initials in blue. With two carefully executed drawings in red and black of the 'Vein-man' and of the 'Astrological man'. The dates of the eclipses are from 1461-1481, and the outside of the cover is dated 1463 by an early hand. There are also small drawings of the eclipses in red and blue.

Publication/Creation

Late 15th century

Physical description

1 volume 7 ll. folio. 27.5 x 17 cm. [folded to 14 x 5 cm.] On vellum, sewn in original limp vellum cover. The original folio-size sheets have been folded double, and then in three, and the vellum cover added to fit the smaller format. At the top of the cover is a vellum tag so that the MS. could be suspended by a cord from a girdle.

Acquisition note

Purchased at Sotheby's 31/7/1923, Lot 508A.

Related material

At Wellcome Collection:

Other examples of this type of folding calendar / almanac can be seen at MSS.39, 41 and 8932.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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  • 42731