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Blood-Letting Calendar for the year 1531

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Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, FRG 216

Fergus Bovill and William Duba 2025 (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

The digitisation and analysis of this fragment was generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. 

General Information

Title Blood-Letting Calendar for 1531
Shelfmarks Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, FRG 216
Material Paper
Date of Origin 1531
Script, Hands

Printed gothic typeface.   

Original Condition

Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines at least 60
Line Height 5 – 6 mm
Ruling n/a

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf
Dimensions 395 x 259 mm
More about the Current Condition

A single leaf likely repurposed as a pastedown in the host volume, from which it is now detached. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Printed bas-de-page decoration with green wash. Comprises a figure holding a banderole with text, and vegetal forms. 

Content

  • Content Item
    • Text Language Latin
    • Title Almanac
    • Content Description

      A Blood-Letting Calendar in Latin, in a sixteenth-century typeface, for the year 1531. Visible are a list of when the movable feasts occur (the intervallum laicorum xviii dies undoubtedly signifies the date of Easter as 9 April, confirmed by Septuagesima in die Dorothee, 6 February), a list of lunar-solar conjunctions (new moons) and oppositions (full moons), including conjunctions on Feria sexta post Gerdrudis (=18 March in a year when Easter fell on 9 April) and Dominica post nativitatis Marie (=10 September), dates featuring an eclipse in 1531. After the tables comes a list of dates opportune for medical interventions.

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History

Persons and Institutions The host volume belonged to the nearby Kartause Ittingen outside of Frauenfeld, Switzerland.

Host Volume

Title Biblia
Date of Origin/Publication 1476-78
Place of Origin/Publication Nuremberg
Shelfmark Frauenfeld, Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau, X 823/I
Persons Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner
Remarks

15th-/16th-century light-coloured leather binding over wooden boards, typical of the Kartause Ittingen. 

Bibliography

  • On the host volume:

    Luginbühl, Marianne and Heinz Bothien. Meisterwerke des Frühen Buchdrucks: Die Inkunabel-Schätze der Kantonsbibliothek Thurgau aus den Klöstern von Ittingen, Fischingen und Kreuzlingen. Frauenfeld: Verlag Huber, 2011, p. 75. 
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