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[Almanac 1487, for Nuremberg]

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Description
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.
Type
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Date
[1486?]
Call number
89402
Provenance
Purchased from Vollbehr, March 23, 1925. Upside down on verso of leaf, a partly filled-out tree of consanguinity in ms. with title "Arbor affinitatis" and a contemporary ms. inscription (Prov. 11:24) "Alij diuidunt propria et ditores fiunt alij rapiunt non sua et semper in egestate sunt, Kilianus[?]".
Dimensions
35 x 24 cm
Associated people
Wagner, Peter, (active 1483-1500,)
Zeninger, Conrad, (active 1480-1489,)
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