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Title
[Almanac 1487, for Nuremberg]
Contributor
Wagner, Peter, active 1483-1500, printer
Zeninger, Conrad, active 1480-1489, printer, attributed name
Date Created and/or Issued
1486
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Rights Information
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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.
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
Identifier
89402
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll14/id/277
Language
Latin
Subject
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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