Schreib kalender und Allmanach auff das Jahr nach der Gnadenreichen Geburt unsers Herren Jesus Christi.
1625
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Title
Schreib kalender und Allmanach auff das Jahr nach der Gnadenreichen Geburt unsers Herren Jesus Christi.
Created/published
Gedruck zu Colln bey Gerhardt Grevenbruch ahh der Hohenschmitten, 1625.
Description
8vo, [56] leaves, signed A-G8.
Associated name
Herlitz, Andreas, author.
Note
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From dealer's description: "8vo., 56 unnumbered leaves (signed A-G8). Printed throughout in red and black. Title-page with border of typographical ornament and two-headed eagle, typographical ornament to p. [3], small astronomical symbols. Light browning, a very good copy, interleaved, in contemporary vellum boards, gilt-rolled rope-pattern borders to covers, with fleurs-de-lys to corners, and to front cover, device with IHS, the H surmounted by a cross, flanked by sun and moon, with three nails below (to back cover, MAR initials, with cross on hill in background, with three stars), all in gilt, gilt rolled panelling to spine of same rope pattern. Edges gilt and gauffered, two (of four) gold-coloured silk ties. Traces of a stamp (possibly ecclesiastical) to front cover. Armorial bookplate of Count Franz Anton II von Thun und Hohenstein, of Schloss Tetschen (Decín, Czech Republic) (1809-1870). Finely bound, and interleaved, but unused copy of this unlocated calendar and almanac. The book offers saints' days and astronomical information through the year. At the beginning (p. 3) the year 1626 is announced in other ways including in world-years (5588), years since the Great Flood (3923), since the foundation of Rome (3377) and since the foundation of Cologne (1936). A two-page text at end offers a prognosis for 1626. We have found no other published work fitting this date by Andreas Herlitz, the given author, although curiously a David Herlitz was an author of almanacs in mid-seventeenth-century Nuremberg. The copy appears intended for use in a Jesuit institution. In the nineteenth century it came into a noted Bohemian library, which was sold, with its castle, to the Czechoslovak state in 1932. For another calendar item from this collection see Penn call number GC7 A100 709l. Not in OCLC. Not in VD 17."
From dealer's description: "8vo., 56 unnumbered leaves (signed A-G8). Printed throughout in red and black. Title-page with border of typographical ornament and two-headed eagle, typographical ornament to p. [3], small astronomical symbols. Light browning, a very good copy, interleaved, in contemporary vellum boards, gilt-rolled rope-pattern borders to covers, with fleurs-de-lys to corners, and to front cover, device with IHS, the H surmounted by a cross, flanked by sun and moon, with three nails below (to back cover, MAR initials, with cross on hill in background, with three stars), all in gilt, gilt rolled panelling to spine of same rope pattern. Edges gilt and gauffered, two (of four) gold-coloured silk ties. Traces of a stamp (possibly ecclesiastical) to front cover. Armorial bookplate of Count Franz Anton II von Thun und Hohenstein, of Schloss Tetschen (Decín, Czech Republic) (1809-1870). Finely bound, and interleaved, but unused copy of this unlocated calendar and almanac. The book offers saints' days and astronomical information through the year. At the beginning (p. 3) the year 1626 is announced in other ways including in world-years (5588), years since the Great Flood (3923), since the foundation of Rome (3377) and since the foundation of Cologne (1936). A two-page text at end offers a prognosis for 1626. We have found no other published work fitting this date by Andreas Herlitz, the given author, although curiously a David Herlitz was an author of almanacs in mid-seventeenth-century Nuremberg. The copy appears intended for use in a Jesuit institution. In the nineteenth century it came into a noted Bohemian library, which was sold, with its castle, to the Czechoslovak state in 1932. For another calendar item from this collection see Penn call number GC7 A100 709l. Not in OCLC. Not in VD 17."
Place of creation/publication
Germany.
Item Details
Call number
270061
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "8vo., 56 unnumbered leaves (signed A-G8). Printed throughout in red and black. Title-page with border of typographical ornament and two-headed eagle, typographical ornament to p. [3], small astronomical symbols. Light browning, a very good copy, interleaved, in contemporary vellum boards, gilt-rolled rope-pattern borders to covers, with fleurs-de-lys to corners, and to front cover, device with IHS, the H surmounted by a cross, flanked by sun and moon, with three nails below (to back cover, MAR initials, with cross on hill in background, with three stars), all in gilt, gilt rolled panelling to spine of same rope pattern. Edges gilt and gauffered, two (of four) gold-coloured silk ties. Traces of a stamp (possibly ecclesiastical) to front cover. Armorial bookplate of Count Franz Anton II von Thun und Hohenstein, of Schloss Tetschen (Decín, Czech Republic) (1809-1870). Finely bound, and interleaved, but unused copy of this unlocated calendar and almanac. The book offers saints' days and astronomical information through the year. At the beginning (p. 3) the year 1626 is announced in other ways including in world-years (5588), years since the Great Flood (3923), since the foundation of Rome (3377) and since the foundation of Cologne (1936). A two-page text at end offers a prognosis for 1626. We have found no other published work fitting this date by Andreas Herlitz, the given author, although curiously a David Herlitz was an author of almanacs in mid-seventeenth-century Nuremberg. The copy appears intended for use in a Jesuit institution. In the nineteenth century it came into a noted Bohemian library, which was sold, with its castle, to the Czechoslovak state in 1932. For another calendar item from this collection see Penn call number GC7 A100 709l. Not in OCLC. Not in VD 17." Ordered from Leo Cadogan, D8969, 2016-04-08, from his 2016 RSA list (seen by curator at the fair), item 7. Purchase made possible by The Eric and Mary Weinmann Acquisitions Fund.
Folger accession
270061