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Description: German almanac for bloodletting, heavily illustrated with woodcuts. Woodcut illustrations including a pelican, a young couple at a table, a flock of birds, the birth of Christ, and a Zodiac man with information on where to bleed depending on Zodiac sign. Imperfect: only the left half of the lower part remaining; torn along edges with some loss of text and illustrations. Mounted on a blank leaf.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: [after 1500?]
Call number: 89472
Provenance: Purchased from Vollbehr, March 23, 1925.
Dimensions: 32+ x 22+ cm
Associated people: Schöffer, Peter, (approximately 1425-approximately 1502,)
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[Almanac 1479]

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Almanac in German for 1479; includes information on when to perform bloodletting. Woodcut banderole on top and border on left; three illustrations of an eclipse. Imperfect: stained and torn, subsequently repaired and mounted, with some loss of text.

89407

[Almanac 1487, for Nuremberg]

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Almanac for Nuremberg for the year 1487; includes information on when to perform bloodletting. Imperfect: trimmed along edges, with loss of first 12 lines and some text along left edge. Printed in red and black. Includes two woodcut illustrations depicting lunar and solar eclipses.

89402

[Almanac 1487]

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Almanac in German for 1487; includes information on when to perform bloodletting. Text begins: Im jar als man zalt nach Christi geburt M°cccc°lxxxvii° ... Woodcut banderole in top margin and woodcut border at left. Two astronomical illustrations. Imperfect: torn and repaired along previous center fold, with some loss of text. Previously mounted on a leaf.

89411

[Almanac 1489]

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Almanac in German for the year 1489. Text begins: In dem als man zalt nach Cristi geburt .Mcccclxxxix iar ist .d. son[n]tag büchstab ... Woodcut banderole in top margin and woodcut border on left. Border hand-colored in green and yellow, banderole touched with yellow Imperfect: first 37 lines only out of 70 (measures 21 x 28 cm), trimmed along left margin with some loss of border.

89412

Es spricht der Meÿster Almanasor. : Das man sulle in dem Genner gü̈ten weÿn nüchtern trincken

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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.

90912

In comincia el dignissimo fasiculo de medicina : in volgare el quale tracta de tute le infirmitate del corpo humano & de la anotomia de quello & multi altri tractati composti p[er] diuersi excelentissimi doctori con auctorita e testi prouadi & prima la exposition del colore delle vrine e iudicio de quelle

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"Johannes de Ketham can be convincingly identified as Hans von Kircheim of Swabia ... This collection of texts was in circulation by 1400."--ISTC. Translated by Sebastianus Manilius; edited by Petrus Andrea Morsiano. Includes Pietro da Tossignano's Consilium pro peste evitanda (leaves e2v-f2r) and Mondino dei Luzzi's Anothomia (leaves f3r-i3v). Includes ten full-page woodcuts, with one printed in color: the library of Petrus de Montagnana (leaf a1r); urinoscopic consultation (leaf a1v); circle of urine glasses (a2r); disease man (a4r); Zodiac man (b2r); vein man (b2v); wound man (b6v); pregnant woman (d1r); scene in the chamber of a plague patient (e2r); and dissection scene (leaf f2r, in color). Chancery folio, with paper measuring 29.6 x 20.5 cm. 48 lines to a full-page; area of text: 26.3 x 16.4 cm. Includes initial spaces with guide-letters. With signatures; without foliation and catchwords Signatures: a-h⁶ i⁴. Imperfect: trimmed, with occasional loss of outside edges of illustrations and signature marks. Binding: half Spanish calf with marbled paper.

90923

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Es spricht der Meÿster Almanasor. : Das man sulle in dem Genner gü̈ten weÿn nüchtern trincken