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Manuscript: Deutscher Kalender und Praktik auf das Jahr 1466
User CollectionCreator: Johannes Dolcart (or Dohart) and two other scribes Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: Würzburg(?), 1466-ca. 1500. Genre: text based on the “ioatromathematische Hausbücher” (medical-mathematical house-book) tradition, which links and systematizes medical and astrological knowledge to create a kind of everyday handbook for medical treatments, especially bloodletting, to be administered by laymen at home. It is based on the medieval idea of the influence of planets on the health and character of human beings. This specimen would be considered a “poor man’s” version, including, e.g., re-used woodcuts rather than hand-colored paintings. Physical description: paper, 26 leaves, 8 in. x 11 ½ in.; bound in worn (1930s?) black buckram boards. Script: written in 3 hands, one of which is Johann Dolcart (or Dohart), identified on 10 verso. Dating evidence: 1466 on “title page”; polemical poem (13 verso) on the Schwaebischer Bund (not founded until 1488); Golden Numbers and Sunday Letters (8 verso) range from 1500-1536. Thus, the manuscript is reasonably dated 1466-1500. Illustrations: small woodcuts (initial D) with names of months pasted into text on calendar pages, executed some time after 1483. Their date corresponds well to text additions by second scribe (active after 1488). Their appearance is similar to others published in the “teutsch kalender” March 1483 by Heinrich Knoblochtzer in Strassburg. Cf., e.g., Das ist der teutsch kalender mit den figure(n), gedruckt zu Ulm in Jahre 1498 von Johannes Schaeffler (Faksimile-Edition, kommentiert von Peter Amelung. Zurich, 1978). Condition: fair; marks and traces of continued use; trimming along borders cuts off some text; insect damage; some evidence of restoration. -
Creator: Erster Meister des Mendelschen Bruederbuches Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: Sol (sun), crowned, with sword and scepter, standing over Leo -
Creator: Erster Meister des Mendelschen Bruederbuches Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: Luna (moon), carrying torch and horn, standing over Cancer -
Creator: Unknown scribe Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: text with annotations -
Creator: Unknown scribe Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: text with annotations -
Creator: Erster Meister des Mendelschen Bruederbuches Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: Gemini (twins) ; text -
Creator: Unknown scribe Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: text only -
Creator: Unknown scribe Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: text -
Creator: Erster Meister des Mendelschen Bruederbuches Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: Taurus (bull) ; text -
Creator: Erster Meister des Mendelschen Bruederbuches Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: naked couple sitting bath; man caresses woman's breast -
Creator: Unknown scribe Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: text with enhanced annotations -
Creator: Unknown scribe Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: text -
Creator: Unknown scribe Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: text -
Creator: Erster Meister des Mendelschen Bruederbuches Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: two astrologers dispute about the constellation of stars -
Creator: Erster Meister des Mendelschen Bruederbuches Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: March ; Aries -
Creator: Erster Meister des Mendelschen Bruederbuches Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: Aries (ram); text with enhanced annotations -
Creator: Unknown scribe Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: text with annotations -
Creator: Johann Dolcart? Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: chart showing good days for daily activities: buying, selling, hunting, etc. -
Creator: Johann Dolcart? Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: chart to locate "Sunday letters" beginning in 1466; signature of 1st scribe -
Creator: Johann Dolcart? Contributing Institution: Concordia Seminary Library Description: list naming each day of week with corresponding planet god