What is the Folded Almanac?: The Form and Function of a Key Manuscript Source for Astro-medical Practice in Later Medieval England
Hilary M. Carey
This article provides an account of important source for late medieval English medicine and astrology, namely the folded almanac, also termed, less correctly, a physician's (or folding) calendar, vade mecum, or girdle book. On basis discussion twenty-nine surviving examples number questions are raised about way these manuscripts were used in astro-medical practice. reviews what this group should be called, kind manuscript they are, assesses which worn on body. It establishes that almanac was innovation many include new, updated version calendar lunar data John Somer. A subsequent will describe working components practice astrological medicine.
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