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. Title and imprint from ISTC. GW assigns printer as Wagner, GW(Einbl) lists printer as Conrad Zeninger. Goff, A-513 GW, 1414 ISTC, ia00513000 Proctor, 2244.6 Mead, H.R. Incunabula in the Huntington Library, 1341
Extent
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 35 x 24 cm
Almanacs--Early works to 1800 Phlebotomy--Early works to 1800 Almanacs--Germany--15th century. (rbgenr) Broadsides--Germany--15th century. (rbgenr)
Source
History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Provenance
A partly filled-out tree of consanguinity in ms. with title "Arbor affinitatis" on verso. Contemporary ms. inscription (Prov. 11:24) with an autograph below: Alij diuidunt propria et ditores fiunt alij rapiunt non sua et semper in egestate sunt, Kilianus[?]. Purchased from Vollbehr, March 23, 1925.
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