An almanac from Worcestershire in 1389, on sheets folded in different arrangements. There are many w
An almanac from Worcestershire in 1389, on sheets folded in different arrangements. There are many ways of telling time and predicting the future: the church’s liturgy, the farming year, the omens in thunder, astrology. The maker of this almanac shows them all, experimenting with words and pictures in various arrangements. And he stitches the shapes and folds the edges of sheets into varied designs for this varied information — a long strip of zodiac signs or the saints’ days in one giant calendar, for instance. (MS. Rawl. D. 939. Anonymous almanac; copied probably 1389; Worcestershire, courtesy Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) -- source link
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