Collection ID: 0028 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Almanack

Other related names

• White, William A., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 1004/29
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, The Rosenbach)

Publisher

The Rosenbach

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

York, England

Summary

A mid-fourteenth-century physician's belt book containing calendar, tables of solar and lunar eclipses, anatomical phlebotomy diagram, and urine wheel.

Notes

• Page dimensions 357 x 150 mm (unfolded); Bound dimensions 200 x 60 mm (folded)
   

Extent

10; 357 x 150 mm bound to 200 x 60 mm

Collation

Ten single sheets, folded individually, and bound together on one end

Support

Parchment

Layout

Ruled in red ink; prickings extant; folios folded once in half and twice width-wise to form three columns on each half-sheet; written area: 160 x 140 mm (per half-sheet)

Decoration

Large initials decorated in blue, red, and gold; three-line initials in red and blue with pen flourishing; paragraph signs and one-line initials in blue and red or gold throughout; calendars in red and black; tables of eclipses in red and gold (solar) and blue and gold (lunar); anatomical phlebotomy diagram in red and black with veins and conditions indicated in circles; wheel of the 20 urines in colors

Script

Gothic--anglicana

Provenance

• William A. White, acquired 1927
   

Keywords

• 14th century
• English
• England
• Science -- Medicine
• Chart
• Astronomy
• Notable binding

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• 1 A — Tabula festorum mobilium cum canone
• 2 A — Januarius, Februarius, Martius
• 3 A — Aprilis, Maius, Junius
• 4 A — Julius, Augustus, September
• 5 A — October, November, December
• 6 A — Eclipses solis et lune cum canon
• 7 A — Eclipses lune
• 8 A — Ymago fleobotomie
• 9 A — Tabula urinarum
• 10 A — Chronological canon or index

Decorations

• 1 C-B — Illuminated initial Q
• 2 C — Illuminated initial KL
• 3 C — Illuminated initial KL
• 6 C-B — Illuminated initial P
• 8 D — Anatomical diagram w/ humors