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Es spricht der Meyster Almansor das man sulle in de[m] Genner güte[n] wein nüchter trincke[n]
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Almanac in German with astrological notes and illustrations. Chancery quarto, with paper measuring 20.2 x 15.5 cm. Signatures: [a-h⁸ i⁶ (a1, i6 blank)]. Illustrations hand colored. Running titles, rubrication and numbering of the days of the month in red. Leaf a1 damaged and mounted on free endpaper at beginning. Binding: contemporary German blindstamped calfskin over boards; remnants of metal clasp. Rebacked.
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![Liber pestilentialis de venenis epidimie. = Das büch der vergift der pestile[n]tz das da gena[n]t ist der gemein sterbent der Trü̈sen Blatren. / Von Jeronimo Bru[n]swig](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN412G2G2%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Largely based on Heinrich Steinhöwel's treatise on the plague, first printed in Ulm in 1473. Entire passages are copied verbatim. Printed on Chancery-size paper, measuring 28.8 x 20.4 cm. In double columns with 42 lines and headline to a full page; col. width: 6.5 cm.; area of text: 20.6 (21.6) x 13.7 cm. With many ornamental printed initials, some initial spaces with guide-letters, and printed fists in margins; without catchwords. Includes 23 woodcut illustrations (many repeated) of various sizes, which generally depict doctors in consultation with each other and at patients' bedsides. Cf. Schramm. Signatures: A⁴ B-G⁶. Huntington Library copy has "doch vnderwegen liess vnd" in the colophon. Initials and rubrication in red. Binding: stiff vellum.
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