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Folding Almanac
artist unknown dated 1463 ink and colour wash or watercolour
27.5 x 17 cm (folded 14 x 5 cm)
This fourteenth-century folding almanac features information valuable for medieval medicine. On one side of a sheet is a “vein man”, alongside medical summaries and calendar information; on the other side an “astrological man” displays the signs that rule the body parts. Small drawings of the eclipses are depicted in red and blue, with their dates ranging from 1461 to 1481. The sheets have been folded to fit into a vellum cover, which would have been fitted with a tag so the almanac could be worn by a cord from a girdle.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
Folding Almanac
artist unknown dated 1463 ink and colour wash or watercolour
27.5 x 17 cm (folded 14 x 5 cm)
This fourteenth-century folding almanac features information valuable for medieval medicine. On one side of a sheet is a “vein man”, alongside medical summaries and calendar information; on the other side an “astrological man” displays the signs that rule the body parts. Small drawings of the eclipses are depicted in red and blue, with their dates ranging from 1461 to 1481. The sheets have been folded to fit into a vellum cover, which would have been fitted with a tag so the almanac could be worn by a cord from a girdle.
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images